THE head of the vice- president's security, Capt. Napoleon Namanya, on Saturday testified how he recovered the gun he claimed was used by one of the Presidential Guard Brigade soldiers to kill three people in Mbale.

The situation in North Kivu remains precarious with 64,000 people displaced since March, as Congolese Armed Forces (FARDC) operations against the FDLR and Mai Mai militias intensifies. According to UNHCR spokesman Jens Hesemann, the accompanying looting and violence committed against

The thatched roof of the debating chamber in some Malian villages is set deliberately low to prevent elders standing up and coming to blows when they disagree.

THE Uganda Change Agent Association's (ucAa) executive secretary, Nora Owaraga, has been honoured for empowering women and boosting household incomes in rural areas.

THE Anti Stock Theft Unit (ASTU) has recruited 1,300 personnel for deployment along the border with Karamoja and southern Sudan. The unit commander, Andrew Sorowen, said the exercise aims at creating a force to block the infiltration of the Lango-Sudan

THE government has earmarked sh20b for milk producers to enable them acquire modern processing machines, the animal husbandry state minister has said.

Farmers now have a forum to handle complaints over the quality of seeds sold in the market.

President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has called on the people of Fuamah District to unite in order to achieve development in the area. The President expressed appreciation for the support she received from the people of Fuamah during the 2005 Presidential

MAGANJO Grain Millers has installed a juice-processing plant worth sh150m. The firm's managing director, Mary Tamale, said the new plant produces 376 boxes of 300ml bottles and 124 boxes of 500ml bottles daily.

TRADE between the Matheniko from Kenya and the Tepeth from Uganda is to resume, a district official has said. "Trade in the Karamoja region with their counterparts in Kenya is set to resume following efforts by the Uganda Peoples Defence

THE sick six-year-old Matiya Sebuliba, who appeared in The New Vision on April 25, has received assistance from good Samaritans.

THE state minister for youth affairs, James Kinobe, has asked the Police to investigate the case of a prominent businessman who allegedly married a 15-year-old-girl.

I have been reflecting on why Ugandans turned violent in a demonstration that was meant to be peaceful, and killed an Indian national. The tension between Ugandans and Indian traders had been building up for some time and Mabira Forest

THE Uganda Development Bank (UDBL) expects to make sh2b profits this year, the bank's board chairman, James Kahoza, has said. Kahoza said this during a training workshop about profit-maximisation for chief executive officers at Fang Fang Restaurant in Kampala, recently.

Employers should comply with labour laws in order to provide a conducive working environment for improvement of productivity, the gender, labour and social development minister has said.

MEMBERS of Parliament yesterday paid tribute to the late Dr. Yefusa Okulo Epak, MP for Oyam South, describing him as principled, intelligent and a nationalist.

UGANDA failed to win the country's top golf competition at the weekend but, there was still a lot for the hosts to celebrate.

FORMER International Boxing Federation Lightweight champion Kassim Ouma has promised to plead with the International Criminal Court (ICC) to withdraw the indictments against the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) leaders.