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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 […]
A concerned citizen has petitioned the Inspector General of Government (IGG) calling for investigations into the operations of the M/S Kiira Motor Corporation and its activities. According to the petition received by the IGG’s registry on July 10, 2024, the concerned citizen alleges that though M/S Kiira Motor Corporation has been staging that it manufactures […]
Frustration is brewing among property owners in Mukono Municipality as they grapple with the ramifications of an extended freeze on land title transfers. For the past two years, the ministerial zonal offices (MZO) in Mukono have imposed a sweeping halt on all land transactions within the major blocks of the central town due to concerns over […]
The National Resistance Movement (NRM) has lost its Vice Chairperson for Karamoja region, Simon Peter Aleper. Aleper died in a motor accident along Iganga-Tirinyi Road. Sources within NRM have disclosed that the deceased was travelling for the ruling party’s Central Executive Committee meeting to be held in Kampala. Busoga East Region Police, in a statement, […]
