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The Hoima Town Council speaker, Mr Jackson Amanya, has requested the Chief Administrative Officer, Mr Walter Iriama to take disciplinary action against the acting town clerk for allegedly disrespecting the council.
Even after the civil war that ended in 2005, hundreds of Sudanese are resettling in Arua District despite the return of peace in their motherland, the deputy resident district commissioner has said.
The government yesterday announced plans to post details of its contracts on the Internet and register service providers.
Children yesterday appealed to the government to increase the provision and access to antiretroviral drugs in order to accelerate HIV/aids treatment.
The Democratic Party spokesperson, who was taken ill to South Africa, is set to return home next Tuesday, the party president announced yesterday.
District leaders from the eastern region have asked the government to reinstate graduated tax.
National Water and Sewerage Corporation (NWSC), has acquired equipment to detect illegal water connections that cost the institution about Shs25 billion water in losses a month, Daily Monitor has learnt.
The Commissioner General Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) has called for proper evaluation and management of tax incentives given to investors to ensure they are not misused.
With unpredictable diesel supplies and high prices playing a major role, telecommunication companies are now turning to investing in power lines to extend electricity to their rural base stations, which they see as a cheaper power source compared to generators.
The African Development Bank and the government will fund the construction of a garbage recycling plant in Masindi District, Daily Monitor has learnt.
Gulu District Chairman, Mr Norbert Mao, who is also aspiring for the Democratic Party (DP) presidency, has taken his campaign to western Uganda.
Coach Amos Kamya will be hoping to enhance his credentials as a knowledgeable tactician when he leads the 4-man national amateur team to compete in the 72-hole International Teams Golf Championship in South Africa today.
Cranes coach Bobby Williamson was on Tuesday night involved in an accident on his way back to Sports View Hotel where the national team is camped.
The excitement and glamour associated with the World Cup trophy will soon come to an end. The trophy, on a 52 Africa-nation Coca-Cola-sponsored tour has already been to 43 destinations.
For the past month, police have been playing cat-and-mouse games with boda boda cyclists over road safety requirements and this has drawn mixed reactions from the public. These cyclists are increasingly being detested by almost all road users ranging from motorists to pedestrians.
Efforts by Kabale delegate Godfrey Kwizera to block Fufa's elective assembly slated for Saturday were rendered futile, following a decision by Kampala High Court Judge Vincent Zehurikize to dismiss his application.
Ex Tanzania President Benjamin Mkapa will tomorrow be awarded with a honorary doctorate degree at Makerere University. He becomes the tenth person to get the honour from Uganda's most prestigious university.
The United Nations Security Council's tenuous authority in Africa has been further threatened by an explosive new report from a UN Group of Experts* showing wide-ranging violations of the arms embargo on Congo-Kinshasa by both Western and African states.
Uganda is in a pole position to become one of the top 50 oil-producing countries in the world in six years, according to experts.
Despite progress in Sudan in the past two years in tackling the problem of children in armed conflict, many challenges remain, ranging from reintegrating child soldiers to dealing with youngsters abducted by the Ugandan rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) who have been brainwashed into killing their own parents, a senior United Nations official said today.
As Kenya contemplates a policy shift from rain-fed agriculture to irrigation, some women in North Eastern Province are ahead of the game: they have turned to rain water harvesting for food production and their efforts are bearing fruit.
Abdalla Adam, an IDP (internally displaced person) leader from Alryad camp in El Geneina, West Darfur, says that he desperately wants to return to his village, Mestarei, from which he was forced to leave in 2003, but cannot because others have occupied his land.
About 4,000 residents of Muleba District in Kagera Region, have been rendered homeless as a result of heavy rain that was accompanied with strong winds.
The Forum for Democratic Change President, Dr Kizza Besigye has, in his first major press conference since returning from a 10-day tour of Karamoja, accused the Uganda People Defence Force of gross human rights abuses during the disarmament programme.
Several ruling party lawmakers yesterday moved to defy odds and throw their weight behind the opposition's crusade against the government's land law reform proposals as contained in the Land (Amendment) Bill 2008.
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