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Although they spent over 10 hours travelling, Kampala City Council Football Club (KCC) arrived safely in Binh Duong province in Vietnam on Friday night for the BTV Number One Cup.
More than Shs3.3 billion spent on hiring private vehicles to support Chogm transport is unaccounted for amid mounting concerns from the lawmakers that the money was spent on redundant vehicles.
Uganda settled for relatively unfavourable terms from agreements she signed with companies currently working the huge oil fields discovered in western Uganda, according to a new report to be released this week.
Lately, there have been reports in the media about the impending analogue to digital TV switchover, putting the deadline date on December 22, 2012. One question, however, comes to mind: Are we prepared? To compound the puzzle even further, it has been reported that Uganda Broadcasting Corporation, itself a competitor in the business, will have exclusive rights to distribute the digital signal.
Africa's creative industries could be great success stories but they are held back by weak copyright protection. While the wealthiest Western creators often shout loudest, it is the poorest African entrepreneurs who suffer most. In some important ways, copyright piracy makes it more expensive to make a typical African film than a Hollywood blockbuster.
State Minister for Water, Jennifer Namuyangu is facing defamation charges after she wrote to security accusing Kibuku MP Saleh Kamba of creating a militia group in eastern Uganda.
The Democratic Party (DP) spokesperson, Ms Betty Nambooze, who was recently referred to a South African hospital, is steadily recovering from complicated illness, party President John Ssebaana Kizito has said.
A decline in fertility rate among Ugandan women over the next 30 years can help slow the country's fast growing population, a medical doctor has said.
President Museveni has said attainment of 100 per cent service delivery in the health sector has remained a challenge because of ghosts created by the medical practitioners.
Between November 12 and 13, cultural leaders (13 of them) from across the country, met at Masindi Hotel in Bunyoro Kingdom to discuss issues that affect them.
Vincent 'Araali' Byamukama is the hottest property in Ugandan amateur golf and he will continue to do so until when he makes a professional bow.
Title: Woman in the Eyes of God:
THE Democratic Party (DP) one of Uganda's oldest political parties has suspended six senior officials over indiscipline. The six are accused of assaulting the party chairman during a press conference.
THE Judiciary has suspended three magistrates in an effort to "clean its house."
UGANDA is to benefit from the $1.5b (sh2.8 trillion) that the World Vision has earmarked to reduce child mortality in developing countries over the next five years.
A LOT of time wasted during the term of the former Inspector General of Government (IGG), Faith Mwondha, negatively impacted on national efforts to curb corruption, ethics state minister Dr. James Nsaba Buturo said.
THE First Lady has asked MPs to track all funds disbursed from the central government to the local governments in order to ensure that the intended programmes are implemented.
VINCENT Byamukama maintained his hunt for a second title at the Rwanda golf Open by taking a five stroke lead on Friday.
As Agriculture Minister Hope Mwesigye tried to convince the world leaders attending the 2009 Food Summit in Rome that Uganda was improving the sector greatly, a report by Food and Agricultural Organisation showed that the number of hungry in the country had increased from 12 to 17.7 million.
Donors are demanding that the government checks the increasing HIV/Aids infections, which are expected to hit 200,000 by the end of 2009 if they are to release more funds.
Uganda should not be held hostage to the possibility of civil strife post-2011 if the presidential election's result is disputed. Today, we have ever-growing fears of future strife that were only heightened by the government's determined swearing-in of the discredited Electoral Commissioners for another term in office this week.
Whenever I see pictures in the media and read stories about the glorified white-collar gangsters, their political-cum-business bag-boys and business world accomplices, one of the questions that I ask myself is whether these people really belong to the modern age?
Adoption comes with mixed feelings, commitment and responsibility. But if the material needs and child's emotions are well handled, the relationship between the new family and the child can thrive.
Finally it's D-day as the MTN Marathon takes center stage this morning starting at the Kololo Airstrip. After two months of high-altitude residential training in Bukwo, Joseph Nsubuga should have few or no excuses going into today's race.
Efforts to prevail over aspirants for the Uganda People's Congress (UPC) presidency to stand down for Olara Otunnu have reportedly failed.
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