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EAC Security Chiefs Discuss Terrorism, Cross Border Conflicts at Uganda Summit
Security officials from across East African Community member states have focused their meeting in Kampala on getting solutions to continued terrorist attacks and cross border conflicts. Speaking at the...
View ArticleGen Muhoozi Warns on Regional Instability
UPDF Chief of Defence Forces (CDF), Gen David Muhoozi has notified officials from the East African Community member states who are gathered in Kampala that the region is growingly becoming “fragile”...
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Minister Acweru Calls for More Refugee Support to Limit Slave Trade
The state minister for Disaster and Preparedness in the Office of the Prime Minister, Musa Ecweru, has said there is an immediate need for other countries in the world to emulate Uganda’s policy and...
View ArticleKagame. Museveni to Meet in Angola
Angolan President João Lourenço has invited regional leaders including President Museveni for a special meeting in the capital Luanda. Other invited heads-of-state for the Quadripartite Summit this...
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NMS: Uganda’s Drug Supply Chain: A Story of Risk and Resilience
In 2008, a high level meeting was called at State House Entebbe. At the time, government would send over Shs 70bn annually to public health facilities to procure medicine for patients. The National...
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Japanese Introduce Gunny Bag Road Maintenance Technology
Poor road network is one of the biggest challenges faced by developing countries today. The failure to connect village roads to urban centers brings delays in transportation of goods and services. To...
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Exclusive Video: Countering Explosives, Winning Hearts: A Story of Ugandan...
At 5:30am on September 19, 219, the sun broke through the clouds with a bright ray, lighting up the gleaming Aden Abdulle International Airport in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu. The airport is part of...
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Securing the High Risk UN Compound in Mogadishu: The Story of a Ugandan...
In June 2013, Nicholas Kay, the then United Nations special representative for Somalia, was outside the international organisation’s heavily fortified compound in Mogadishu for a brief meeting when Al...
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Party after Party: The illuminating Story of Allan Kanyike, the retiree who...
At 10:15am (November 7), a talkative, bald-headed man walks into our office in Kiwatule, Kampala. He is late by fifteen minutes for the interview appointment. We had a day earlier reached out to Allan...
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Long Read: Dr Atwiine’s War: How Plans to Rob Billions from Health Ministry...
On one chilly morning, the Health Permanent Secretary Dr Diana Atwiine was on her desk sipping on a cup of hot tea. Being an early riser, Atwiine, according to staff, is always in office before 7:00am....
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Rukikaire: Mbabazi was not a ‘Sausage Eater’ During the NRA War
Mathew Rukikaire has described as “very sad”, claims that Amama Mbabazi was living a flashy lifestyle in Nairobi, Kenya as the war to remove Milton Obote and later the Okellos, raged on in Uganda....
View ArticleUganda ICT EXPO 2019: Inside Smart Jacket Diagnosing Pneumonia Using Bluetooth
In June 2014, Brian Turyabagye was busy with his engineering course when he learnt that the grandmother of his friend Olivia Koburongo was ill. Together with Olivia, they later realized that the...
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City NGO Caters for Impregnated Minors
Parents, especially reckless fathers have been pointed out as the biggest cause of early pregnancies among school going girls in the country. This was revealed by Nurse Vivian Kityo, the founder of...
View ArticleINVESTIGATION: Why Kagame is Reluctant to Open Gatuna Border
In January 2019, a meeting of top Rwanda Patriotic Front (RPF) officials was held at the ruling party’s headquarters in Rusororo. Security services had invited all businessmen importing Ugandan goods....
View ArticleWhy the Desert Locust after 70 years?
By Vincent Bamulangaki Ssempijja (MP) Following changes in climate across the globe, there have been cyclonic wind movements across the Indian Ocean resulting in heavy rains and as a result creating a...
View ArticleINVESTIGATION: Museveni Counters Gen Tumukunde in Heated Succession Battle
On the bright Tuesday morning of November 21, 2017, heavily-armed elite police forces escorted then IGP, Gen Kale Kayihura, to the Uganda Communications Commission (UCC) headquarters in Bugolobi, a...
View ArticleEXCLUSIVE: Gen Tumukunde Moves to Announce 2021 Presidential Bid
Former Security Minister Henry Tumukunde has stepped up his clandestine mobilisation ahead of the 2021 elections. Tumukunde, who fought side by side with Museveni in the NRA bush war, has for the last...
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EXCLUSIVE: Stormy State House Meeting as Museveni Orders Closure of...
President Museveni has directed two activists, Sulah Nuwamanya and Prossy Boonabana to close the advocacy part of their non-governmental organisation (NGO), Selfworth Initiative, as part of a...
View ArticleMateke to Museveni: I Used to Talk to Rwanda’s Kagame
The State Minister for Regional Cooperation, Dr Philemon Mateke, 75, has revealed that he used to talk to Rwandan President Paul Kagame. Mateke, a power broker from Kisoro, South Western Uganda, has in...
View ArticleEXCLUSIVE: Museveni Warned on ‘Rwanda’s Plan to Capture Kabale, Kisoro’
President Museveni has warned that attacking Uganda would be suicidal amid growing tensions with Rwanda. Museveni, who held a meeting of security chiefs on February 24 at State House Entebbe, said “no...
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