Teargas, Live Bullets Rock Kampala Streets
Teargas and live bullets have rocked Kampala streets this Monday afternoon. Police and the army have fired teargas and bullets to contain rioters who have lit fire in the middle of roads in Kisekka Market, Namirembe Road and Kikuubo Market Lane. The crowds are chanting Kyadondo East MP Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine’s slogan, “People […]
Uganda Renews Fight Over Multibillion Railway Deal
That President Museveni reportedly relieved the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) project coordinator, Mr Kasingye Kyamugambi, of his duties is not entirely surprising to some people in the know, but still, there is “yet an official communication to the effect”. Mr Kasingye, a civil engineer, previously working with National Planning Authority (NPA) and was tapped by […]
God Needs Dollars, Christians Told
The Anglican Chaplain for Parliament, Rev Canon Christine Shimanya, has advised Christians who give offertory in Shillings to also bring dollars and pounds. “Some Christians have dollars and pounds earned from international conferences; instead they change the money to Shillings before bringing it to church as offertory. Bring those dollars and pounds, God needs them,” […]
Uganda’s Museveni Cancels Multi-Billion Chinese Mining Deal Over Bribe
President Museveni has stopped a multi-billion copper mining project with a Chinese company at Kilembe Mines following information that a former minister pocketed a $1m bribe to influence the deal. The President also ordered investigations into allegations that top government officials, including a former minister, received millions of dollars in bribes to influence the award […]
Idi Amin’s Concrete Boat Sinks During Launch
During his presidency, Idi Amin very much wanted to show off the military strength of the Ugandan army, and how it was going to bomb Cape Town in South Africa to teach the apartheid regime of Pieter Botha a lesson. During the 1975 Organisation of African Unity (OAU) summit in Kampala, the guests were treated […]
Coach Micho Sredojevic Singles Out Cape Verde As Uganda’s Biggest Concern
When the grouping was done some five months ago, landing Uganda in the same pool with Tanzania, Cape Verde and Lesotho; there was almost uninterrupted consensus that this was a fair draw. Cranes coach Micho Sredojevic himself was quick to say it was “a fair group,” alluding to his African experience to overcome the three […]
I Will Ignore Critics and Take Care of Our Children – Zari Hassan
Ever since Socialite and Businessman Ivan Semwanga passed on last Thursday at Steven Biko Hospital in Pretoria South Africa. The businessman passed on after he was hit by stroke which took him to coma for 12 days until he passed on Wednesday. Since then, critics have been all over Zari Hassan Ttale who is the […]
Why Do Regimes Love to Torture?
Governments and times change in Uganda, but the one thing all of them have had in common is the appalling reliance on primitive torture of suspects. You can trace this in varying forms from British colonial rule to the NRM regime today. Why is this so? First, to the distressing case of Kamwenge Town Council […]
Ugandan President Museveni Again Blasts Police As Thieves, Warns of Sacking
President Museveni has once more torn into the reputation of Uganda Police Force and accused them of being irredeemably corrupt and promoting crime in the country. The President’s disapproval comes just two months after he accused the same law and order agency of being infiltrated by criminals who have compromised investigations into high profile killings, […]
800,000 Tonnes of Cement Needed for Standard Gauge Railway Project
The Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) will need 800,000 tonnes of cement of all grades and 85,000 of reinforcement steel. For now, though, these are indicative figures, according to the SGR project’s coordinator, Mr Kasingye Kyamugabi. According to the Uganda Bureau of Statistics (Ubos, 2014), Uganda manufactures 2.2 million tonnes of cement, annually. The local market […]
