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City businessman Tom Kaaya is in trouble for alleged illegal possession of firearms. Kaya was picked on Thursday morning by a team of operatives from the Chieftancy of Military Intelligence backed by officers from Old Kampala Police Station. The operatives stormed Kaaya’s Mengo based home on a tip off that he was in possession of nine guns and military attire. They searched Kaaya’s home an only managed to recover a pistol and 18 rounds of ammunition. It is still unknown whether the recovered pistol is licensed or not. Uganda People’s Defense Forces Spokesman, Brigadier, Richard Kalemire has confirmed the operation.…
Uganda Cranes played to a goal-less stalemate with Burundi during the CECAFA Senior Challenge Cup group B match played at Bukhungu stadium in Kakamega on Monday. It was a game of missed opportunities from either countries as the respective backlines rose to the occasion to tame and thwart any danger where it mattered. Head Coach Moses Basena handed KCCA midfielder Allan Kateregga his much awaited debut in national team colours before he was later replaced by Hood Kaweesa after 55 minutes. Newly crowned Airtel FUFA Most Valuable Player, Muzamiru Mutyaba teased and tested his opponents. In fact, Mutyaba had one of the…
An updated list of banned drugs, substances and methods in sports inclusive of football has been released by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) to FIFA for its 211 Member Associations (MAs). In a detailed Circular from FIFA Secretary General Fatma Samoura, she has advised all MAs of FIFA to spread the message to all football stakeholders in their respective countries. FUFA has also sent out the circular to its stakeholders in regard to the 2018 list of banned drugs, substances and methods in sports. FUFA CEO Edgar Watson thus wrote in the communication dated 29th November, 2017 to the various…
Dear Namere, I have read your article about the Redpepper and the current detention of its directors and editors with a lot of interest. While my immediate feeling was that I should ignore it after all it is your opinion, I now feel it important to respond your several allegations as a former staff of the Redpepper. I worked with the Redpepper from 2001 till I resigned in 2009 to do my private business. I can proudly say that I worked closely with all the persons currently in detention and I am proud to stand up for all of them…
An SPLA officer who hails from Pariang in Ruweng state said he commands a new rebel movement that will seek to overthrow President Salva Kiir. Brig. Gen. Zachariah Monyjiek Baguot Kiir, a defected army general, accused President Kiir of waging a “tribally engineered war” and failing to deliver services to the people of South Sudan. Baguot told Radio Tamazuj on Friday that the new rebel group calling itself South Sudan United Liberation Movement/Army is fighting for unity of the people of South Sudan. “I was in the SPLA army but I defected, so now I am at the border with…
Today marks one year since the Uganda Peoples Defence Force-UPDF launched an assault on Omusinga Charles Wesley Mumbere’s Buhikira palace in Kasese town. The attack led to the death of more than 100 royal guards and Mumbere’s arrest. The palace located a kilometer away from Kasese town is now a shadow of its past, a year after it was attacked. URN reporters in Kasese were on Sunday morning given a rare access of only five minutes inside the palace by police officers. Outside the palace, Barricades manned by the army and police have been erected 200 meters away from the…
The Rt. Hon. Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Jacob Oulanyah, has urged youth in Uganda to unite and work together to bring change in their communities. Addressing graduands at the Uganda Youth Network Leadership Academy in Namugongo on Friday 24th November 2017, Oulanyah called on the youth to be ready to serve at all times. “The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have; compassion in what we do makes our characters as humans and propels us to practice Ubuntu,” Oulanyah said. He stressed that without the spirit of togetherness, all human achievements are joyless, adding…
Dear Men When you look at various women, there is always something that you can admire until you wish to sleep with her, something different from your wife’s. May be it is boobs especially if she is yet to breast feed, may be it is hips, may be it is her lips , may be it is her complexion, may be it is her voice etc. If you think you can keep going for every woman you desire; you will never have enough because every woman has something desirable. It is like going into a hotel with all types of…
The Zimbabwe Catholic Bishops’ Conference (ZCBC) says it has forgiven former President Robert Mugabe for his “transgressions” in office over the past 37 years and implored new President Emmerson Mnangagwa to put in place inclusive transitional mechanisms to level the political playing field ahead of next year’s watershed elections. Mugabe is a devoted Catholic. “We thank the former President for the good work he did for Zimbabwe during the liberation struggle and as President for 37 years. We forgive him for any shortcomings during his long tenure of office. We wish the new incumbent every blessing and success,” the ZCBC…
As written by the Libyan woman: Hello, I allow myself to write to you to explain what is happening in my country. Know that Libya is totally destroyed and that the Libyan people are massacred by daesh. Our army is doing its best to fight daesh and during this time, mafias are taking advantage of this chaos, especially the mafia of smugglers, who kidnap migrants, mistreat them, torture them and ask ransom for their family to release them. Know that slavery is considered a crime in Libya, and this is not at all a normal and acceptable practice in Libya, nor acceptable…