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Wed Feb 12, 2020. Former Presidential candidate Rtd Maj Gen Benon Biraaro has been pronounced dead at Kampala Hospital after two years of battling cancer. The retired Uganda military officer who contested for Uganda’s top office (President) in the 2016 general elections has on several occasions been flown abroad for cancer treatment because it had […]
Greater Bushenyi Police has quashed claims by western Uganda’s celebrated comedian Valentine Muhereza commonly known as Kachaina that he survived death on Monday night when his car tyres were shot at by unknown robbers between Itendero and Kashaka. The robbers allegedly hijacked him but when he refused to stop they chased him with bullets until […]
By Anthony Kushaba Mbarara Police in Kiruhura district is stuck with child who was reportedly abandoned by yet to be known people along the Mbarara- Masaka highway in Kiruhura district at Akageti trading centre. The child in question was abandoned on Saturday 08/02/2020. The Male juvenile child around 2-3 years, his name is not […]
By Patson Baraire KANUNGU Over 210 Youth were on Feb 9th 2020 awarded certificates after completing a 2 week training in Computer Skills at St Pius SSS In Kihihi Town Council in Kanungu District. The function to hand over the certificates was presided over by Kanungu District Woman Member of Parliament Hon Elizabeth Karungi who […]
By APN Reporter Ntungamo The ministry of water and environment on Thursday launched the construction of Kyamate small scale irrigation system in Ntrungamo Municipality. The project is being implemented by the ministry of water and environment- water production Regional Centre West Uganda with funding from government of Uganda aimed at improving people’s livelihood through promotion […]
By APN Reporter Kabale Drama ensued yesterday at a fundraising for the construction of the new Ruboroga catholic sub parish church, when the Buhara Catholic parish priest Rev Fr Felix Bunimba, ordered the Commissioner Internal Audit and Compliance in the Uganda Revenue Authority, Dr Poltazio Begumisa, to write an apology, for allegedly confronting his curate […]
By John Nakato Kampala A total of 1828 officers and men of UPDF comprising of UGABAG XXVIII and UNGU VI have today been flagged off to Somalia by Lt Gen Wilson Mbasu Mbadi, the Deputy Chief of Defence Forces, at Singo Peace Support Operation Centre in Nakaseke District. Lt Gen Mbadi while addressing the forces, […]
By Our reporter Sunday night saw revellers in Kabale town dancing to exciting Ugandan music from the past. The event dubbed, “Blast from the Past” was organised by Hills fm radio and hosted at Mist bar and Lounge. Dressed in some old school attire, some of the party animals could not control it but rather […]
By our reporter Kabale Journalists in Kigezi region have been warned against accepting bribes while covering governance and accountability issues in their region. According to Jack Sabiiti, the former Rukiga County Member of Parliament, Journalists have a role of exposing the bad things transpiring in their communities as well as sharing the positive stories […]
By our reporter Kabale The “Switzerland of Africa” as Kabale is fondly referred to due to its hilly nature and coldness had a new twist to its otherwise tourist gateway role to Lake Bunyonyi and the nearby Bwindi impenetrable forest. About two weeks ago, what appeared to many as an over hyped launch of a […]