January 09, 2023
Uganda: 79 Dead, 345 Injured On Ugandan Roads in First Seven Days of 2023
A report by the traffic police has revealed that on the first seven days of the new year 2023, a total of 340 accidents have happened on Ugandan roads. Read more »
Uganda: Uganda Police, Nbl Collaborate On Awareness Song About Road Safety
Uganda Police and Nile Breweries Ltd (NBL) have collaborated on a song project aimed at spreading road safety awareness. Read more »
Uganda: Archbishop Kaziimba Warns Government Agencies Over Land Grabbers
Archbishop of the Church of Uganda, Dr. Stephen Kaziimba Mugalu has lashed out at government agencies that continue to watch as land grabbers take advantage of poor people. Read more »
January 08, 2023
Uganda: Civil Servants Still Unpaid - Finance Minister Asks For Time
The Minister of State for Finance (General Duties), Hon. Henry Musasizi has said investigations into non- payment of December salaries for civil servants will be carried. Read more »
Uganda: MPs Want Officials Who Make Govt Lose Money to Repay It Personally
The Parliament Committee on Public Accounts (Local Government) has recommended that the Secretary to the Treasury (PSST) should hold the accounting officers personally liable, for… Read more »
Uganda: Parliament to Discuss How to Reduce Road Accidents
Legislators will hold a comprehensive debate on how to curb the increasing road accidents which have claimed many lives. Read more »
January 07, 2023
Uganda: Kamapla Deputy Lord Mayor Slams 'Gun Rule' of Nation
Kampala Deputy Lord Mayor Doreen Nyanjura, has said the militarization of elections has now taken a new dimension, calling upon Ugandans to rise up and kick "gun rule" out of the… Read more »
January 05, 2023
Uganda: UPDF Soldiers Raid Police Station - Rescue Colleagues Arrested Over Staging Illegal Roadblocks to Rob Residents
Police in Kampala have kicked off investigations into circumstances under which a group of UPDF soldiers raided a police station to rescue colleagues who had earlier been arrested… Read more »
January 03, 2023
Malawi: With 595 Dead, Malawi Suspends Reopening of Schools Due to Cholera Outbreak
The authorities in Malawi have suspended primary and secondary schools opening in two major cities following a cholera outbreak that has so far killed 595 people. Read more »
Uganda: President Museveni Orders Families of Stampede Victims Be Given U.S.$1,338 Each
President Museveni has directed that each family that lost a loved one be given shs5 million to help them in burial arrangements, the Vice President, Jessica Alupo has said. Read more »
Uganda: MP Ssenyonyi Raps Speaker Among Over Uganda Airlines Probe Report
Nakawa West MP who also doubles as the chairperson of COSASE , Joel Ssenyonyi, has blasted Speaker Anita Among for taking too long to act on their report regarding the probe on… Read more »
Uganda: KCCA Moves to Blacklist Contractors Over Shoddy Works
KCCA Executive Director, Dorothy Kisaka has said the authority has finalised plans to blacklist all road contractors fond of doing shoddy works that cost the public huge sums of… Read more »
January 02, 2023
Somalia: UPDF Soldier Shoots Three Colleagues Dead in Somalia, Arrested
Investigations have kicked off into circumstances under which a UPDF soldier under the African Union Transition Mission in Somalia (ATMIS) shot three of his colleagues dead in… Read more »
Uganda: Bobi Wine - the Voices of Young People Remain a Major Driving Force Towards the Removal of President Museveni From Power in 2023
Bobi Wine: The voices of young people remain a major driving force towards the removal of president Museveni from power in 2023 Read more »
Uganda: Two Suspected ADF Agents Arrested Over Surveilling, Planning to Attack Police Post
Police in Kamwenge district in Western Uganda have arrested two men suspected to be agents of rebel outfit and terrorist organization, ADF while carrying out surveillance on one of… Read more »
Uganda: Consistent Leadership Fights Shall Continue to Exploit Markets-Lukwago
Consistent leadership in these markets shall continue to exploit markets-Lukwago Read more »
January 01, 2023
Congo-Kinshasa: Regional Force Takes Over Town After M23 Withdrawal
The East African Community Regional Forces (EACRF) deployed in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo have taken over two territories formally under control of the M23 fighters. Read more »
Uganda: New Year Fireworks Stampede Leaves Nine Dead
At least nine people were killed and others injured in a stampede at a new year's event that also had a fireworks display at Freedom City Mall in Kampala, police have said. Read more »
December 30, 2022
Uganda: Stop Lamenting, Focus on Improving Household Incomes, Museveni Tells Kiruhura, Kazo Leaders
President Yoweri Museveni has told the people of Kiruhura and Kazo to stop lamenting about bad roads in the districts as the cause of their poverty but instead focus on doing… Read more »
Uganda: Six Die on Spot as Two Buses Collide Head-On
Six people have died on the spot and 30 others are nursing injuries after a head-on collision between two buses on Rukiga-Mbarara highway this morning. Read more »
December 29, 2022
East Africa: Deaths That Shocked Uganda, East Africa in 2022 - Part Two
2022 has seen several important pillars of East African society pass away. Nile Post brings you part two of three memorials of who they were and why they mattered. Read more »
Uganda: Owino Traders Decry Exorbitant Taxes That Contradict Museveni Directive, Want to Elect Their Own Leaders
Minister for Kampala, Hajjat Minsa Kabanda, has established a committee that will spearhead the resolution of issues affecting traders in Owino Market. Read more »
Uganda: Prophet Kakande Asks Church Members to Pay Shs500k for His "Special Touch"
For only Shs500,000, members of the Synagogue Church of All Nations will receive a special touch by their shepherd, Prophet Samuel Kakande. Read more »
Uganda: Musicians, Events Organisers, to Begin Paying Taxes as URA Threatens Crackdown
Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) has directed all individuals earning from entertainment activities to get a Tax Identification Number (TIN) and failure to comply could result in… Read more »
Uganda: Two Siblings Killed After Unidentified Explosive Detonates
Two children have died after an unidentified explosive they were playing with went off in Kanapa village on Wednesday afternoon. Kanapa village is in Kanapa sub-county, Kumi… Read more »