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Paul Bakebwa elder brother of former Go Forward presidential candidate John Patrick Amama Mbabazi has been involved in a nasty accident. This tragic incident happened this afternoon along Kabale-Katuna road. He’s currently admitted to Kabale regional hospital in critical conditions.  

Gen Andrew Gutti has been sworn in for a second term as Chairman of the Army court sitting at Makindye in Kampala. Gutti has been sworn in by Judge Advocate Lt. Col Gideon Katinda, alongside other 14 members of the court including; majors, Lieutenant Colonels, captains and warrant officers. Lt.Col Gideon Katinda also administered to himself the same oath, and ordered that the court immediately gets into session to hear the pending cases. Last month, President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni re-appointed Lt Gen. Gutti to head this court after the expiry of his one year tenure as the Chairman General Court…

Hon. Kyagulanyi Ssentamu Robert perusing through the Parliamentary Rules of Procedures as he gets prepared for his swearing in as the newly elected MP Kyadondo East slated on Tuesday 11th July 2017. The journey and decision he made has just started, and apparently this is his new assignment that has come with a different touch of experience. Bobi Wine won the hotly contested Kyadondo East By election race where he whacked five candidates including Apollo Kantinti (FDC) Nkuyingi Muwada (Independent), William Sitenda Ssebalu of the National Resistance Movement, Kayongo Sowedi Male, Kasasa Edward who is also an independent candidate.

Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni has invited South Sudan’s rebel leader Riek Machar to attend a meeting aimed at the reunification of the different factions of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM). In May, three factions of South Sudan’s SPLM party agreed in in Kampala to set aside their differences and work out a roadmap to reunify the party, but the main armed opposition faction loyal to Riek Machar didn’t attend the meeting. “Your representatives are hereby invited to attend so that mediation process is all inclusive. Eventually, you could come in person after we harmonize in the region,” said Museveni…

Following the release of the road-map for the election of a new party president of  the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC), plots and groups have emerged. News reaching our desk reveal that the biggest battle in Uganda’s leading opposition party is one of the Youth Versus the founder members and regions against regions. Its alleged that majority of the old party members are solidly rallying behind Gen. Mugisha Muntu who is also the current president while the young bloods are their fellow youth famous Besigye aid Moses Byamugisha. Though there have been allegations of bribing the 35 years old Byamugisha…

South Sudan’s fragile unity government has failed to name a deputy foreign minister for almost a year, raising questions about further political understandings between the coalition partners in the current government in Juba. The SPLM faction loyal to President Kiir and SPLM Former Detainees led by Pagan Amum are blaming each other for the impasse after Kiir removed Cirino Hiteng from his post in July last year for allegedly attending an IGAD Council of Ministers meeting without being delegated by the government. Hiteng was appointed to his post according to the 2015 peace deal, under which the Ministry of Foreign…

Public Health specialists in Lira want Joseph Omoo alias Ajep, who is being held at Lira Central Police Station to be detained in an isolation cell since he is a Multi-Drug Resistance Tuberculosis -MDR TB case. Ajep who was remanded to Lira Central Government Prison, escaped on Friday last week from TB ward 5 at Lira Regional Referral Hospital where he was receiving treatment for MDR TB. He was diagnosed with a MDR TB, a strain of TB that cannot be treated with the two most powerful first-line medicines. Ajep, who is accused of being the mastermind of several robberies…

The President of Guinea who is also current AU Chairman H.E. Alpha Conde has called on Africa governments to increase their investments in the African youths in order to develop their confidence and potential, as well as to assure and prepare them for their future leadership roles on the continent. President Conde was speaking at the opening plenary session of the 29th Assembly of the African Union Heads of State and Government, meeting in Addis Ababa Ethiopia. The meeting is being held under the theme of “Harnessing Demographic Dividend through Investing in the Youth.” He called on leaders to entrench…

Unionized drivers and cyclists have complained of double taxation and asked Parliament to address problems hindering their prosperity. The drivers and cyclists petitioned the Rt. Hon. Speaker of Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga, under the Amalgamated Transport and General Workers’ Union (ATGWU) on Monday. The petitioners were led by Workers MP Hon. Margaret Rwabusahiaja (Ind). The petitioners said that Uganda Revenue Authority and Transport Licensing Board had hiked the Passenger Service Vehicle fees to Shs 300,000 and introduced an income tax of Shs 20,000 per paying passenger per year. “This brought the total sum paid for PSV licence to Shs 580,000, which…

The Local Government Accounts Committee has tasked Accounting Officers in the Gulu Audit region to explain the queries raised by the Auditor General in the financial report for the year ended 30th June 2016. The Committee led by the Chairperson, Hon. Reagan Okumu, met Chief Administrative Officers from the districts of Gulu, Kitgum, Agago and Nwoya. The Committee was in the region between 26th and 30th June 2017. Okumu said that Apac and Lira districts were the worst in the Lango region with incomplete vouchers amounting to Ushs33.2 million. He also highlighted the missing payment vouchers, under collection of local…