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The December 14 assault on Lord’s Resistance Army, LRA, camps in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo, DRC, surprised many.
IN just two days, reclusive rebel leader Joseph Kony and his fighters raped over 80 Congolese women in the towns of Faradje and Tadu in the Orientale province in the north- eastern DR Congo.
SIX people have died and 27 others hospitalised following a meningitis outbreak in Hoima district, the health ministry has revealed.
Kenya and Uganda have announced new plans to build another railway line from Mombasa to the interior to cope with increased regional trade.
THE ministry of Energy's Ernest Rubondo, who is the commissioner for Petroleum Exploration and Production Department, says oil exploration and production activities will continue as planned despite the on-going global financial crisis.
A situation where teams battle for semi-final slots up to the very last day of the group stage is every football fan's dream. That's exactly what Burundi, Kenya and Zambia will be up to when they wind up CECAFA Senior Challenge Cup Group B action today with two potential crackers.
The farm gate price for vanilla has been slashed by sh1,000 to sh3,000 per kilogramme due to a drop in international prices. Philip Betts the managing director of Esco Uganda, one of the local buyers said the prices slowed down because international buyers are anticipating for a bumper harvest in Madagascar this year.
LEADERS in the six districts bordering the Mt. Elgon National Park have been urged to educate residents on the benefits of the park. Kapchorwa district chairman Nelson Chelimo said this would minimise encroachment.
There is more to in vitro fertilisation (IVF) than merely fertility treatment. Reproductive liberty which uses technology to subordinate early human life to extra-uterine fertilisation should be subject to moral and legal oversight. The moral issue is the status of the pre-implantation embryos.
THE price of petrol at filling stations in the city continues to remain high.
SELECTION for the players who will participate in the Zone Five Africa basketball championship qualifiers in Rwanda next month will be made by the Federation of Uganda Basketball Associations' (FUBA) technical committee today.
AT the late Livingstone Sebuliba's home in Kitoro, Christmas 2008 was not a merry one as his family and friends rushed to Entebbe Grade A Hospital where he was admitted.
MORE than a year after Pioneer Easy Bus, the first company to operate a city bus service in Kampala, launched operations, the bus transport plan meant to decongest the city is yet to make any meaningful impact.
THE National Resistance Movement (NRM) candidate in the Bujjumba byelection, Fred Badda was poised to win with a landslide. Spontaneous celebrations by NRM supporters in Kalangala town council erupted at about 8:00pm as the unofficial provisional results trickled in.
THE Federation of Rwanda Football Association (FERWAFA) has promised to share the $30000 (sh58.8m) prize money among the players if they win the CECAFA Senior Challenge Cup next weekend.
SHE is known variously as Lapwony, Min Acii, Captain Laruma, Mego; and to the family members, she is Mama or Aunt Mama. Born on November 30, 1931 in a remote village in northern Uganda, my hero is the eldest of eight children, seven girls and one boy.
TEN nuns of the Daughters of St. Theresa on Tuesday took perpetual vows, vowing to die serving God.
THE Government is to pay sh13m to two women for the degrading treatment they were subjected to by the Police over accusations of lesbianism.
THE Masaka and Mengo Rotary clubs and the Wheelchair Foundation have donated 92 wheelchairs worth sh32m to disabled persons' in Masaka district.
THE Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) has dismissed claims by a man who said its officials tortured him on suspicion that he had smuggled goods.
A bridge connecting Bisun-Juba slum to Tororo Municipality, that had become a death trap, has been repaired.
Ugandan flower export earnings have been sapped by the spills of the global financial crisis which has lead to the cancellation of contracts and prices nose diving.
AT least 2000 head of cattle will be treated against Nagana in Apac, the district veterinary officer, Dr James Ongu-Elim, has said.
THE Police in Tororo have arrested two people for allegedly vandalising 750 metres of aluminum electric conductors estimated to cost sh30m.
THE Acholi parliamentary group has resolved to send envoys to countries involved in the joint military offensive against the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) to persuade their leaders to halt the on-going operation in Garamba Forest.
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