Ruling party MPs on Monday forced Attorney General Kiddhu Makubuya back to the drawing board after they disagreed with contents of a new Bill before the House that seeks to amend the Political Parties and Organisations Act 2005.
Private security firms in Uganda such as Askar Security, Water Tight Services; Triple Canopy; EOD Technologies and Dreshak have been sub-contracted by American firms also known as "corporate warriors" to recruit Ugandans for both combat and non-combat operations in Iraq
Last week the media reported that MPs Mary Karooro Okurut and Ruth Tuma decried the increasing abuses against prisoners. Their concern, according to media reports, was that young offenders and criminal suspects continue to be sodomised in various prisons and
Yesterday morning, grief stricken parents and relatives of children who died in the Budo Junior School fire flocked the Kampala City Council mortuary to collect the remains of their children only to leave frustrated, without them.
Last Monday's fire at Budo Junior School that claimed 20 pupils was the 33rd school fire in five years, a figure that is very high, according to Peter Johnson, the chief fire marshal at Kampala Fire Masters.
Commonwealth Secretary-General Kamalesh Sharma met Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni on 16 April 2008 for talks on wide-ranging issues on the first stop of his first overseas trip since taking up office on 1 April 2008.
Gadaffi is a coward and all his tough talk in Uganda should not impress Ugandans. When US attacked Iraq, Gadaffi was the first leader to give up all his nuclear ambitions and materials. His rhetoric is just empty. I did
The towering appetite for shares of Safaricom, Kenya's giant mobile operator, among investors has pushed up supply of local shares at the Uganda Securities Exchange.
IN a bid to keep up with the competition in the highly anticipated 2008 cricket season, clubs have broken their respective banks to lure stars into joining their teams.
Commercial gold mining in the country begins later this year in the central district of Mubende, a senior official in the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Development revealed yesterday.
Coffee farmers with quality produce fetched high prices despite the drop in coffee prices on the world market. According to a coffee report for the month of March, farmer groups with good quality coffee in large quantities fetched as high
President Yoweri Museveni yesterday criticised administrators at Budo Junior School, where 20 pupils burnt to death in a Monday night fire, as "irresponsible" people who "let down" minors entrusted in their care.
A cloudy Tuesday morning turned that day's torrential rains into torrents of tears for many parents as news of the tragedy at Budo Junior School, off the Kampala-Masaka highway, broke.
OVER 30 educational institutions have confirmed participation in the inaugural Kampala woodball clinic and championships slated for April 26-27, 2008 at Lugogo Cricket Oval, Kampala.
Fufa's competitions committee (FCC) has launched an investigation into allegations that army side Simba FC gave away their Kakungulu Cup match against record holders Express.
One of the survivors of the Monday night fire that claimed 20 pupils of Budo Junior School has said a liquid irritant and a fireball were lobbed through the dormitory window moments before the dormitory was engulfed in a fire.
AFTER finishing second on his Africa Rally Championship (ARC) debut in the Alliance/Kobil Rally of Tanzania in February, Ugandan rally driver Jas Mangat is quietly optimistic about his chances in the Pearl of Africa Rally.
Heavy gun fire rocked Kathire trading centre in Kaabong District on Tuesday morning as Jie warriors clashed with the army, killing at least 13 warriors and one soldier.
