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PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni and Southern Sudan president Salva Kiir yesterday inspected the disputed Uganda-Sudan border area and called for calm.
GOLF will next season return to Mbale after nearly a decade.
THE national U-19 girls' cricket team started on a good note, winning their first two games on Sunday and Monday to stay in line for the ICC Africa regional trophy in Tanzania.
THE National Resistance Movement (NRM) deputy secretary general, Dorothy Hyuha, has told party members to be careful when choosing candidates for the 2011 general elections.
A TOTAL of 713 students have graduated with diplomas and degrees in various business courses at Multitech Business School. The school's second graduation had 453 females and 260 males.
RESIDENTS of Mafumbe village in Kitimbwa sub-county in Kayunga district are living in shock and fear after unknown people revived exhuming dead bodies from graveyards in the area.
WHEN Prof. Timothy Wangusa, the presidential adviser on literary affairs, was a little boy, he used to walk 500 metres, everyday to Nambale Pre-Primary School. Wangusa became a literature lecturer and professor at Makerere University and Mukono Christian University, respectively for over 40 years.
THERE is hope and economic value in growing vanilla in Uganda. This was the main message on Vanilla Day, which was celebrated in Ngongwe, Mukono district earlier this month.
COUNTRIES with high gender inequality gaps are more likely to have hunger and malnutrition, says a report released by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).
CASSAVA farmers in Pallisa, Bukedea and Soroti districts in eastern Uganda have been trained to process cassava into high quality flour for industrial use. The move is part of the comprehensive strategy by Africa Innovations Institute to fight poverty through the Cassava Adding Value for Africa (C:AVA) project.
BETWEEN the year 2004 and 2008, farmers in Kapeeka, Semuto and Nakaseke grew only rice. A year ago, however, this changed, thanks to the intervention of Gen. Salim Saleh and Chinese investors.
THE Lions Club of Kampala Central on Saturday gave free treatment to about 2,340 patients in Rusheshe Health Centre III in Buhunga sub-county, Rukungiri district. The former district governor of the club, Shem Bageine, said about sh50m was spent on the exercise.
Churches should embrace conditions that will encourage children to love God, President Yoweri Museveni has urged. "Our children are growing up in a time of moral decadence. Therefore, the church must set conditions that will encourage them to love God," Museveni noted.
This is a moment of truth for the Commonwealth. The anti-homosexuality Private Member's Bill introduced into the parliament of Uganda, and now proceeding through the normal legislative process, puts the Commonwealth's legitimacy and integrity to the test.
According to the NRM research team, the NRM should take heed of some of their recommendations which point to the need for NRM to dialogue with other parties and the public on the reform proposals already made.
A Police officer attached to the Directorate of Counter Terrorism in Kampala detective Sgt. Enock Turikumwe alias Tumushime, was last Friday charged in the Kisoro Magistrate's Court for setting ablaze a T-shirt bearing President Museveni's portrait.
Eastern Africa coffee farmers, roasters and exporters will in February next year meet to discuss policy issues and measures that can facilitate the logistics and easier movement of coffee across borders.
Less educated and visually impaired Ugandans will in future access information on the internet by talking through their mobile phones, a visiting British computer scientist has said.
The farmers in Kirumba Village in Rakai District have received vegetable seedlings to plant during the current rain season.
Over 1,500 tonnes of garbage are generated in Kampala daily that Kampala City Council is overwhelmed by the waste output due to its lack of capacity to collect and dump it at its landfills.
Life is about to turn around for the bee farmers in Kisoro District after they received a bee breeding centre to boost their honey production output.
The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) and the Ugandan National Agricultural Research Organisation (Naro) are encouraging farmers to intercrop their coffee with banana plantations, a practice that has been found to improve yields. Piet van Asten, a scientist with IITA discovered this in 2005 while evaluating the success of the Agricultural Enhancement Programme in Uganda.
Modern goat rearing's future looks bright following the move by Makerere University researchers to come up with ways to prevent and lessen the goat disease burden. Now researchers say, they can eradicate goat diseases by either confining and separating male from female goats.
Uganda Martyrs University - Nkozi chancellor, Bishop Matthias Ssekamanya has asked government to create jobs for graduates to reduce on the number of those seeking greener pastures abroad. Speaking at the university's 15th graduation ceremony last Friday, Bishop Ssekamanya said the country continues to lose skilled professionals yet the locals are dire need of their services.
The Democratic Republic of Congo will play host to peace talks between Uganda and the defeated rebels of Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), the government has announced.
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