All posts tagged "News Headlines"
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1.0KAfricaFrom Fighting, Floods, Famine & Now COVID; Inside South Sudan’s Crisis Stockpile
By Our Reporter Tucked away behind the bend of a swollen river, an hour and a half by motorboat from the region’s...
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964Latest NewsMyanmar Military Warns Of ‘action’ As protests Row
By Our Repoter Thousands take to streets across Myanmar for third day as activists urge workers to stage a general strike and...
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1.1KBreakingPolice Report Exclude Arson In Makerere University Fire
By Our Reporter Investigations into the fire that gutted Makerere University’s iconic 76-year-old Main building has excluded a possibility of arson. The...
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776AfricaMTN Group On Cloud9 As Its Annual Earnings Double On Uganda Tower Sales
By Our Reporter MTN Group, South Africa’s largest mobile operator by subscribers, said on Friday that it expected 2020 earnings to nearly...
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1.1KAfricaDR Congo’s President Tshisekedi becomes African Union Chairman
By Our Reporter The DRC’s President Félix Tshisekedi has now taken over the helm of the African Union to serve as the...
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771Latest NewsSummer Camp Opens Up Ugandan Students To Chinese Culture, Values
By Our Reporter David Aturinda, a level three secondary school student in western Uganda’s Ntare School, is one of the many young...
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1.7KBreakingOver One Million Prepaid Meters For Uganda’s Umeme
By Our Repoter Uganda’s main electricity distribution company Umeme, like so many others across the continent, has faced numerous challenges over the...
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1.2KAfricaUnbelievable: Busia Residents In Shock Over Cow That Visits Toilet
By Our Reporter Residents of Nanjekho village in Busia county are living in fear and bewilderment after being visited by a strange...
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603AfricaAfrican Aviation Week Of Mixed Emotions; Sadness & Happiness
By Our Reporter African Aviation industry has faced a week of mixed emotions, filled with happiness and sadness. Uganda Airlines receives second...
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774AfricaMore Ugandan Women Arrested For Drug Trafficking In India
By Our Reporter A Nigerian man, identified as Kingsley, and two women from Uganda have been arrested with nine kilograms of narcotics...
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731BreakingAfrica In News: Uganda’s Election Tension Continues, Shell To Cough Billions, COVID-19 Vaccine On Hunt
By Our Reporter Nigeria puts oil companies under pressure Late last week, the Court of Appeal in The Hague ruled that oil...
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535AfricaMTN Jumps As Earnings Rise On Sale Of Some Tower Assets
By Our Reporter MTN Group Ltd. said profit may have almost doubled last year after the sale of stakes in telecom-tower joint...
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628AfricaTensions Rise Over Escalating Abductions
By Our Reporter KAMPALA, Uganda – Ugandan authorities face pressure to find more than two dozen people allegedly abducted by security forces...
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687BreakingFrustrated Bobi Wine Urges ‘Strong Action’ Against Museveni Over Disputed Polls
Kampala: Ugandan opposition figure Bobi Wine is urging the international community to back up concerns over the country’s disputed elections with “strong...
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650BreakingPost Bank Recognized by UbionPay As Best Issuing Bank In Africa
By Our Reporter UnionPay International, the leading card payment company in the world, has presented the award of Best Issuing Bank in...
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610AfricaCOVID-19, Regional Conflicts Engulf African Union Summit
By Our Reporter ADDIS ABABA – African leaders are expected to focus on the continent’s COVID-19 response at a virtual summit this...
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652BreakingUganda Police Plan $4M Biometric Forensic System To Tighten Security
By Our Reporter Uganda police authorities say more resources are needed to continue the installation of its biometric forensic system as part...
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656BreakingICC To Hand Down Judgment Against Former Lord’s Resistance Army Commander Dominic Ongwen
By Our Reporter War crimes judges on Thursday deliver their verdict in the case of Dominic Ongwen, a Ugandan child soldier turned...
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764BreakingBobi Wine Lists 26 Reasons To Annul President Museveni’s Win
By Our Reporter Ugandan Opposition leader Robert Kyagulanyi alias Bobi Wine has listed 26 grounds to annul President Yoweri Museveni’s win in...
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608BreakingOver 3,000 Of My Innocent Supporters Are Bleeding In Bloody Hands Of Museveni’s Men: Bobi Wine
By Our Reporter Ugandan opposition leader Bobi Wine and his party said on Tuesday that around 3,000 of his supporters had been...
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1.2KEast AfricaOpinion: Can Museveni Keep Uganda From Boiling Over?
By Karolina Werner Ugandans headed to the polls on 14 January 2021 under an unprecedented and complete internet shutdown. Before the blackout,...
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766Africa50 Years On From Idi Amin – The Indian Diaspora Still Remembers Him
This February marks 50 years since a malevolent and ruthless Ugandan army officer staged a political coup in East Africa and pronounced...
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984AfricaOpinion: From Internet Shutdown to VPN Showdown, Govt Is on a Warpath
By Charles Onyango-Obbo Ahead of the January 14 election, Uganda shuttered the Internet, lifting them after almost five days. An earlier blockage...
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622AfricaGGGI Signs MOU With Green Building Council Uganda To Boost Four Secondary Cities’ Dev’t
GGGI Uganda and the Green Building Council (GBC) signed an MOU on Cooperation for Green City Development under a project intended to...
