Kisoro district is stuck with over 7000 Congolese asylum seekers that fled a resumed war between the M23 rebels and Congolese forces (FARDC) in some parts of Eastern Congo last week. Refugees are currently staying in Ugandan communities near the Democratic Republic of Congo including Bunagana Market, Bunagana primary school compound, Kibaaya land, bushes of Muramba, and others who are seeking shelter on verandas in Bunagana town council. According to the Kisoro Resident district commissioner, Hajji Shafique Ssekandi Sengooba, most of these refugees had returned home two weeks ago after they had refused to be taken to refugee settlements as…
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Members of Parliament subscribing to the National Unity Platform Party (NUP) party have today afternoon through their leader of opposition Mathias Mpuuga handed over 34 million shillings to support the party’s efforts to repatriate Ugandans who are stranded in Arab countries. Mathias Mpuuga handed the money in cash to the NUP secretary general David Lewis Rubongoya at the parliament premises in witness of other Several NUP members of Parliament. It should be noted that the NUP party has been leading the campaign to bring back stranded and detained Ugandans in UAE and it has so far repatriated over 42 Ugandans.…
On October 12, the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Energy issued a memo to the top managers at Amber House guiding them on how Rural Electrification Agency (REA) staff should hand over offices as they wait to be shortlisted having applied to join public service. This was after REA was absorbed into the mainstream ministry as a way of implementing the cabinet’s decision to re-emerge government agencies as a means of mitigating unnecessary government expenditure. “The Statutory Instrument No.29 of 2021, Clause 13 provides duration and states that this Instrument shall remain in force for a period not exceeding…
Uganda Human Rights Commission (UHRC) has finally spoken out on the events that unfolded at the burial of the late Jakana Sulaiman Nadduli at Kadunda Village; Nakaseke District which left several people injured. In its statement, the Commission has asked law enforcement agencies to carry out expeditious investigations into the violent incidents witnessed during the burial ceremony of Jakana Sulaiman Nadduli, son of the former bush war hero Al-Hajji Abdul Nadduli. Violent clashes erupted between a section of Opposition and the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) supporters on Monday at Jakana’s burial, during which a controversial, NRM activist Ivan Kamuntu…
Centenary Group, the holding company of Centenary Bank, Uganda’s second-largest bank, has made its first foreign acquisition of a financial entity by the purchase of MyBucks, a bank incorporated in Malawi. The group is eying more expansion to South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo. The group, together with the Catholic Archdiocese of Lilongwe, will acquire 100% stakes in MyBucks Banking Corporation of Malawi, whose proprietor MyBucks S.A. was placed into bankruptcy in December 2021.
By Julius Mugaga Tukacungurwa/Umoja Standard. Kampala, Uganda: Uganda’s Trade Minister Hon. Harriet Ntabazi on Wednesday assured a congregation of organic farmers of whole government support on hunting for markets where they can sell their products regionally and internationally. This she said during the First Agroecological Market Systems Expo (AMASE) organized by PELUM Uganda. “We have put energy to cite market for our farmers. We have our East African market which has broadened to include Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and South Sudan and it potential buyers for our products”. Hon. Ntabazi stated. She added that Uganda is already a member…
Lack of vigilance towards halting the spread of Ebola has persisted in the central business district of Kampala, despite the 15 confirmed cases, and this has prompted medical personnel to propose a lockdown of the city. On Tuesday, doctors under the Uganda Medical Association proposed a lockdown to the government to halt the spread of the disease, as the case is with Mubende and Kasanda districts where it first appeared. As doctors proposed a lockdown of the city, a mini survey conducted by URN revealed that people who operate in the central business district have not taken any steps to…
The General Court Martial in Makindye has remanded Major Gordon Joel Atwebembeire, over allegations of murder. Atwebembeire, 47, Tuesday, appeared before the Court presided over by Brigadier Robert Freeman Mugabe, and was charged with one count of murder. Court heard that on October 6th, 2022, Atwebembeire while in Bayima village, Nabitanga sub-county, Sembabule district with malice aforethought, unlawfully caused the death of his wife Marion Tukamuhebwa. It is alleged that Atwebembeire burnt his wife to death on a farm accusing her of having another affair. Reports indicate that a UPDF soldier, Lance Corporal Emmanuel Magala was traveling to Nabitanga trading…
School heads of special needs schools have tasked the government to increase the number of sign language teachers to handle the increasing number of learners with hearing impairments. The school heads have the call during the central region special needs schools head teachers meeting held at St Mark School for the deaf Bwanda in Kalungu district. Speaker after speaker raised the concern of how low numbers of teachers with sign language skills are greatly affecting the learning of children with hearing impairment, challenging the government to increase the number of teachers that are conversant with sign language to aid the…
The territorial police in Mityana have recovered a one-day-old baby who had been stolen from Mityana hospital. According to police, they received a report of a stolen child on 25th/10/2022 in the evening hours from the hospital. “Immediately, we began investigating,” police said in a statement on its official Facebook page. It is alleged that the newborn baby was stolen from the mother Namutebi Aisha, 20 years, 4 hours after delivery. “The suspect identified as Nakalanzi Prossy, a 40-year-old has been tracked down by our task teams and later arrested in the home of Nanfuka Costa of Kyengeza village, Malangala…