Several children were ritually murdered and mutilated during the recent election season in Uganda, a Christian charity says. The activists believe that killings were meant to invoke magic bringing “wealth and power.”The body parts of victims might have…
By Alex GittaIn Uganda, the house arrest of opposition leader Kizza Bisegye continues to overshadow President Yoweri Museveni’s election victory. Hundreds of other opposition figures have also been rounded up.For Kizza Besigye, leader of Uganda’s oppos…
By Yasin KakandeKampala – Six cases of the mutilation and murder of children as “good luck” sacrifices were reported during the recent Ugandan elections, a children’s charity said.”Child sacrifice cases are common during election time as some people be…
EDITORIALLast week, the Law Council ended three years of an audit into alleged examination malpractice at the Law Development Council (LDC).The council issued punishments to those who erred, and gave a second chance to those who needed it. Others walke…
With the global investment in oil exploration and production to fall by a further 17 per cent in 2016 as projected by the International Energy Agency (IEA), Uganda is likely to face another unpredictable year in terms of changing timelines for producti…
By Halima AbdallahInternational poll observers from the European Union have called on Uganda’s Electoral Commission to release election outcomes and scanned copies of declaration results forms online from all polling stations to allow for scrutiny by t…
By Hope MafarangaUganda may miss out on the 2016 Global Fund grants, due to its failure to spend past funds and deliver the programmes for which the money was intended.The Uganda Country Coordinating Mechanism (CCM), the country’s Global Fund Board, ha…
Ugandan Inspector-General of Police (IGP) General Kale Kayihura has spoken out on the continued detention of presidential candidate Kizza Besigye of the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) who was defeated by incumbent Yoweri Museveni in the presidentia…
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has received a petition from the Bugala Farmers Association in Uganda related to UNDP’s association with Bidco Africa Ltd., as a result of the company’s membership with the Business Call to Action (BCtA)….
Ugandans voted last week in national elections for president, parliament and local government positions. Unsurprisingly, on Saturday the Electoral Commission declared incumbent President Yoweri Museveni the winner of the presidential election with 60 p…
The Ugandan central bank has advised the public to develop the culture of buying government treasury bonds to increase on their incomes instead of keeping huge sums of money in their bank accounts.Last year, the interest paid on government treasury bon…
Uganda’s Ministry of Internal Affairs is to phase out the old East African passports and replace them with new ones which will be recognized internationally.The current East African Passport cannot be used as a travel document outside East Africa becau…
Kenya is host from Wednesday the two-day Africa Pharmaceutical Summit Starting which will run under the theme “Building competitiveness and enhancing markets” to reflect the centrality of building an efficient ecosystem critical for the pharmaceutical …