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By the close of Wednesday August 14, 2024, day five after the Kiteezi tragedy, the Police confirmed the death toll to have risen to 30. According to Kampala Metropolitan Police spokesperson, this follows the six bodies which were retrieved on Wednesday. Regarding the communication from the Office of the Prime Minitser issued on Wednesday, they […]
Tamale Mirundi, a veteran journalist and former Presidential Press Secretary has died. Mirundi is said to have died from Kisubi Hospital in Entebbe where he has been in Intensive Care Unit (ICU) for over one month. The news about Mirundi’s death were first announced by his friend and fellow Radio commentator, Frank Gashumba on his […]
| MUKONO | KYAGGWE TV | Residents from the four villages covered by the over 136 acres of land which Kampala Capital City Authority purchased in order to shift the Kiteezi garbage landfill together with their leaders have protested the move saying they are not ready to welcome Kampala’s rubbish problems. The locals that raised […]
The death toll of the garbage dump landslide in Kampala city’s Kawempe Division, central Uganda, has climbed to 21, said Lillian Aber, the minister of state for relief, disaster preparedness and refugees, on Sunday. She told Xinhua over the phone that a total of 21 bodies have been retrieved and taken to City Mortuary Mulago […]
Twelve people have been confirmed dead and 10 retrieved alive from the Lusanja-Kiteezi landfill slide. Kampala Metropolitan Police Spokesperson Patrick Onyango has said that by 5:00pm on Saturday they had recovered 12 dead bodies and 10 people who are alive. Onyango says that they are still going on with the search and no place will […]
Five people have been confirmed dead and six rescued alive. This follows the early morning tragedy that befell the people of Lusanja-Kiteezi as garbage from the Kiteezi landfill curved in, burring a number of homes, animals, and some people inside their houses. The unfortunate incident is said to have resulted from the heavy downpour last […]
Tragedy has struck Lusanja-Kiteezi as garbage from the Kiteezi landfill has reportedly buried a number of homes, animals, and some people inside their houses following heavy rain last night. Hundreds of people are currently feared dead including children whose parents had left at home as they left for work on Saturday morning. The incident is […]
Police have started investigations into the possible cause of death for a prisoner who collapsed and died at Hoima Government Prison. The deceased has been identified as Stephen Mbabazi (38), a resident of Bujumbura East in Hoima City. Mbabazi who was on remand on charges of murder collapsed and died on Thursday at 9:00am. Mbabazi […]
The District Service Commission (DSC) of Mukono district has been sworn in after a three-year standoff. Mukono has been operating without a service commission since March 12, 2022, because of fights between district chairperson, Rev. Peter Bakaluba Mukasa, and the former commission’s chairperson, Stella Margret Kiondo. On Thursday Mukono Chief Magistrate Recheal Nakyazze presided over the swearing-in of […]
The National Identification Registration Authority (NIRA) has yet to confirm dates for the mass registration exercise for new national identity cards. NIRA Executive Director, Rosemary Kisembo says the Authority cannot announce when the registration will start until when it has received the registration equipment. To address the gap of unregistered citizens, NIRA proposed a mass […]
