According to Migadde, traffickers often impose daily financial targets on children and resort to physical abuse if the targets aren’t met. Rwandan National Jailed for 18 Months For Defiling 15yr-Old Girl Behind the joint operations by police and Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) to remove begging children from city streets lies a darker, more disturbing […]
“There are no plans for a special delegation from Uganda to attend the burial. However, Ugandan seminarians and priests in Rome will represent the country at the Vatican. Instead, we have been asked to hold special prayers across the country, in dioceses, parishes, and homes,” Father Ssentubwe said. Uganda, The Nation That Laughs Through Its […]
By Gertrude Kamya Othieno | Opinion | There is a strange comfort in the way Ugandans talk about their country. Roads that are full of potholes, stalled government projects, or dubious public expenditures, all are retold not in anger but with laughter. It is not that Ugandans do not see what is happening around them; […]
The Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development must urgently expedite the process of formally recognizing Ugandan migrant workers’ leadership structures, such as the Federation of Ugandan Migrant Workers Associations (FUMWA). By Kayonde Abdallah, President, Migrant Workers’ Voice Uganda is witnessing a troubling trend: many senior returnee migrant workers, instead of reintegrating positively into society, […]
The Foreign Affairs Committee of Parliament has called for the establishment of a Uganda National Examinations Board (UNEB) Centre in Burundi, one of the East African Community countries in the south of Uganda. By asking for a UNEB centre in Burundi, the legislators aim at reducing the cost of transporting learners from Burundi to Uganda […]
The International Criminal Court (ICC) is set to compensate victims resulting from atrocities committed by the Lord’s Resistance Army’s (LRA) Dominic Ongwen in Northern Uganda. The ICC based in Hague, Netherlands has now earmarked 52.4m Euros, approximately sh200bn for the exercise. Each victim is expected to receive at least 750 Euros about sh2.8m. For over 20 years […]
The Deputy Speaker of Parliament Thomas Tayebwa has urged the European Union Parliament to expedite the process of removing Uganda from its anti-money laundering and terrorism financing grey list. Uganda has been on the list since 2016. Tayebwa made the request while meeting the Deputy President of the European Union Parliament, Antonella Sberna in Brussels, […]
The President of the Uganda Law Society (ULS), Isaac Ssemakadde has allegedly fled the country following the High Court of Uganda ordering his arrest and imprisonment for two years after finding him guilty of contempt of court. According to the latest messages posted on Ssemakadde’s X handle, he allegedly fled to Rwanda. After posting as […]
Fourteen bodies of South African soldiers who were killed while in battle alongside Armed Forces of Democratic Republic of Congo (FARDC) soldiers and coalition forces in Goma city North Kivu province have been repatriated through Rwanda and Uganda. The soldiers were killed during fierce fighting two weeks ago as they fought to stop the March […]
Uganda, Rwanda, Kenya, French and US’s Embassies in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) were on Tuesday looted and set ablaze. The attack on the Embassies on Tuesday came after the M23 captured Goma, the largest city in Eastern DR Congo on Monday. Footage circulating on social media shows rioters carrying furniture from the above […]