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THE Ministry of Finance has released an extra sh10b for emergency food for the famine-hit north and north-eastern parts of the country, Parliament has been told.
The UPDF has been supplying arms and munitions to fighters of the Somali Transitional Federal Government on behalf of the United States government. The Americans, keen to stop radical Islamists from taking over the troubled country, have then been paying the UPDF to restock its supplies.
Pictures of starving Ugandans coming out of Teso region are frightening.
Rhino Investments, a company owned by Col. John Mugyenyi yesterday surrendered the Kisekka Market land title for Kampala City Council to transfer ownership to the vendors.
The opposition is seeking legal interpretation of the Kampala City takeover Bill
With the increasing change in weather, Uganda needs to plant more trees in order to have suitable climatic conditions since the seasons are becoming catastrophic.
Makerere University's deputy vice-chancellor in charge of finance and administration, Prof. David Bakibinga and the University Secretary, Mr Sam Akorimo, were yesterday subjected to a fresh criminal inquiry over their role in the collapse of a Shs2 billion fence at the institution.
Security Minister Amama Mbabazi confirmed the existence of a new rebel uprising in a statement to Parliament yesterday but his report came in stark contradiction to last week's comments by the country's chief spymaster, Gen. David Tinyefuza, who rubbished the reports of a new rebel group forming in northern Uganda as "rubbish."
President Museveni has elevated Mr Kagole Kivumbi to the position of permanent secretary and posted him to the Judicial Service Commission as the new top civil servant.
The Ministry for Disaster Preparedness yesterday shifted the blame of the famine crisis in parts of north, east and West Nile to the meteorology department over its apparent failure to adequately predict weather patterns.
A number of employees at the Directorate of Public Prosecutions were yesterday a subject of criminal investigation after thieves gained mysterious entry into their Kampala headquarters and stole records of high-profile cases, among them Global Fund files.
In June, I was supposed to go to Mexico City for a two-day meeting but eventually I did not go. Had I gone I would have been in trouble with masked health officials I found at Entebbe Airport last Saturday handing out white forms to be filled by incoming passengers.
Muslims have teamed up with their counterparts from the Pentecostal churches to fight homosexuality. The leader of the Muslim Tabliqs, Sheikh Sulaiman Kakeeto, said the issue of homosexuality affects all people regardless of their religious affiliations.
The government has rejected the opposition's proposal for a referendum to determine the government's plan to extend Kampala boundaries and take over its administration
Iganga District authorities are spitting fire over the circumstances under which the road reserve at the former Walugogo roundabout was sold to a private individual. The controversial land came about when contractors on the Jinja-Iganga Bugiri highway phased out the roundabout, leaving idle chunks of land at both sides of the road. It is this land causing confusion.
The number of children abandoning school for scrap business is worrying Lugazi Town Council authorities. Lugazi central chairman Ben Kawule said most of these children, who are mainly of primary school-going age, move from place to place, collecting any metal scraps they lay their hands on.
Kitgum District chairman John Komakech Ogwok has warned sub-county Naads officials to provide effective leadership while implementing Naads projects in the district or risk losing their jobs.
One-year-old Robin Ogwal was hoping to have fun while his parents were away in the garden, and wait for them until they come back to have a cold bath. But unfortunately, he never lived to see that and his parents, Geoffrey Ogwal and Dorothy Amongi, never saw their son's giggling laughters at the end of that day.
A man in Hoima District on Tuesday allegedly killed two boys because their father had reportedly failed to pay back money he lent him.
Mbarara Municipal Council last financial year failed to beat its revenue target and will now be strict with revenue collection, the municipal's town clerk has said. The council collected Shs50 million as Local Service Tax out of the estimated Shs74 million.
Over 150 local business operators countrywide are set to benefit from a new arrangement through which they would be enrolled as Mobile Money Me agents.
Equity Bank Chief Executive, Dr James Mwangi has emerged African Business Leader of the year after his Bank won the2009 African Business Award. The Awards are an annual event to recognize those who have showed special skills in driving Africa's rapidly transforming economy through excellence and best practices in African businesses.
Mukwano Group in partnership with Livelihoods and Enterprises for Agricultural Development (LEAD), a USAID funded project is to spend Shs3.8b to improve the livelihood of the returning IDPs in Northern Uganda.
Uganda leads other East African Partner states in enabling both international trade and investments, according to the 2009 Enabling Trade Index a global ranking carried out by the World Economic Forum (WEF).
Since President Museveni rubbished the need for fundamental electoral reforms, there have been two significant political-diplomatic developments this week. First, Ambassador Vincent De Visscher, the head of the European Union Commission's Delegation to Uganda, said this week that the government should adopt and implement the 2006 Presidential and Parliamentary Election EU's observer team ...
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