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By Catherine Ageno President Yoweri Museveni and the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres are asking the world leaders to help raise the over US$2billion needed in emergency funds to handle the humanitarian crisis caused by the South Sudan conflict. Uganda is now host to over 1.2 million refugees, about 800,000 of […]

By Ismail Musa Ladu & Tausi Nakato The National Resistance Movement candidate, Mr. Moses Walyomu, has bounced back as Kagoma County Member of Parliament. He was declared the winner of the by-election late last night by the Jinja District Returning Officer, Mr. Rogers Edward Serunjogi after he got 24,257 votes, […]

By Benjamin Jumbe President Yoweri Museveni has told a London Conference on Somalia that it is not enough to check Al-Shabaab. The International Conference on Somalia taking place at Lancaster House in London is focused mainly on the situation in Somalia and the conflict in South Sudan. President Museveni has […]

By Benjamin Jumbe The State minister for Kampala Benny Namugwanya has refuted allegation that the KCCA amendment bill intends to trim powers of the lord mayor. The minister tabled the KCCA Amendment Bill 2015 in parliament this week with the speaker sending it to the presidential affairs committee. Namugwanya says […]

By Shamim Natebwa Kampala lord mayor Erias Lukwago has advised the Minister for Kampala to focus on matters concerning development rather than governance law aimed at scraping the lord mayor’s power. Lukwago says that most of the civil works at Kampala Capital City Authority has been stalled because of government’s failure […]