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Just one year to the 2011 election, opposition politician Proscovia Salaamu Musumba is not about to give up her challenge against the controversial 2007 Kamuli District by-election which she lost.
Sitting in a cafe in a European capital last week, I was, I admit, a bit surprised when the two gentlemen on the next table fell into a passionate embrace and then kissed, smack on the lips.
Security agencies in Karamoja have arrested 22 murder suspects including Karimojong warriors, who have been on the run since 2007 when the army intensified its search operations in the region.
It was Franklin D. Roosevelt who once said that a conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward. If you know the decent ideals this country's oldest party, the Democratic Party, stands for against its achievements, you must agree with Roosevelt.
Several buildings in Ntungamo District, including the one housing the office of Ms Janet Museveni, the Ruhaama Member of Parliament, were on Tuesday evening flooded after a heavy down pour.
Pastoralists, commonly known as Balaalo, have accepted to pay allegiance to the Kabaka.
Nicholas Kiprono will need more luck to win a race on the international circuit. On a day when he looked good to bag a major victory, the Ugandan road runner was eluded by luck.
The government should immediately scrap laws criminalising media-related offences to allow citizens freely express themselves on governance of the country, the Uganda Human Rights Commission said yesterday.
In these pages a few weeks ago, I lamented about the continued spate of unresolved murders and disappearances. The events of the past two weeks seem to extend these observations into the wider conscience of the public. I hope the country does not wait to reach a "critical" mass of these events or that the grief is visited upon all segments of society who can point to one of their own interred ...
Telecommunication companies in Uganda are next month expected to adopt new and uniform rates they charge one another to enable their customers make cross-network calls next month.
The East African Securities Exchange Association has agreed to upgrade the Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) in the East African Communities stock exchanges to improve efficiency in the capital market industry.
Dhabi Group's Warid Telecom partnership with Essar Group will boost and further strengthen the presence and competitiveness of the telecom company in the local market, the company chief executive officer has said.
THE Kanungu district senior accounts assistant, Leonard Beitomwe, was on Tuesday arrested by the task force investigating the misuse of funds for the National Agricultural Advisory Services (NAADS) programme.
THE minister for tourism, trade and industry, Maj. Gen. Kahinda Otafiire, has called for a review of the land ownership system if the country is to industrialise.
MY tour of Teso sub-region had nothing to do with the National Resistance Movement (NRM) party activities, the presidential adviser on political affairs, Maj. Kakooza Mutale, has said.
BUSIA district councilors on Tuesday boycotted a council meeting over their unpaid allowances amounting to over sh15m.
THE Private Sector Foundation (PSFU) will recognise the best business models of associations, cooperatives and community groups operating from village, sub-county, district and national level in its effort to enhance competitiveness and growth.
AFRICAN countries need to fork out $93b per year, about 15% of its gross domestic product (GDP), over the next decade to address the appalling state of the continent's infrastructure, a study has shown.
Trade in services is one of the unresolved issues holding back further negotiations between the East African Community and the European Commission on the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPA's).
OVER SUBCRIPTION of central bank's sh60b 10-year Treasury bond issued on November 11 highlights increased investor appetite for longer-dated paper, a senior bank director has said.
Residents of Kisoro Town Council have asked the Government to relocate the sewage plant in their area, saying it is a threat to their health.
THE defence ministry has launched a computerised automated information management system, which is expected to remove 'ghosts' from its payrolls.
THE unchecked sale of food is one of the factors that caused the recent shortage. Prolonged dry spells and erratic rainfall patterns, which directly affected agricultural and livestock production during the first season of 2009, only worsened the situation, the UN food agency has said.
THE cost of the ecological sanitation (eco-san) toilets has been lowered in a bid to promote their use countrywide. The move is also aimed at encouraging farmers to use human waste as a fertiliser to improve agricultural productivity.
DETECTIVES from the Criminal Investigation Directorate (CID) yesterday interrogated five officials of Kyambogo University over death threats directed at the vice-chancellor, Prof Isaiah Ndiege.
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