Uganda News

Recently, I was travelling along the Mbarara-Masaka highway and was appalled to see right on the motorway a boy, no more than 12 years old, riding a boda boda with his younger sister casually tacked onto the passenger's seat - seemingly with no care in the world.

Female judges are concerned about the increasing cases of domestic violence despite the existence of the law to support prosecution of such cases.

By Andante Okanya Government has been sued over the March 26, 2001 Lord's Resistance Army gruesome murders that claimed the lives of nine people including the director of the Jimmy Sekasi Institute of Catering, who were on a tour of Murchison Falls National Park.

By Benon Tugumisirize Two Americans believed to be tourists were on Monday killed in an accident that occurred along Kampala-Masaka highway at Nabusanke near Kayabwe in Mpigi district.

Police Mbale deployed heavily along Kumi - Soroti road to restore calm as drivers demonstrated over new traffic penalties charges which they asy are very high.

The Ugandan shilling firmed on Monday as traders bet an expected surge in government domestic debt auctions would draw sufficient hard currency inflows to plug a budget deficit.

The Ugandan shilling firmed on Monday as traders bet an expected surge in government domestic debt auctions would draw sufficient hard currency inflows to plug a budget deficit.

Adding value to fish. Kobusingye has found new value for fish - making sausages, employing about 200 farmers indirectly and 36 people directly.

The Police in Kampala have banned all political rallies organised by opposition pressure group For God and my Country .

So far, there have been hardly any twists in Big Brother Africa The Chase. From having two housemates per country to two separate BBA houses, we have seen it all before.

District leaders have asked the government to address their challenges including the payment of salaries to district deputy speakers and provision of means of transport to facilitate the effective execution of their duties.

If you have been despising jobs, meet Judith Kabajungu 47 a newspaper vendor who has built a sh14m house.

Police have arrested several anti-corruption activists who had camped at the headquarters of the finance ministry in Kampala to denounce the 2013/2014 national budget.

Vision reporter Uganda's High Commissioner to Australia Enoch Nkuruho has reiterated his mission's objective to promote and protect Uganda's national interest and to strengthen the strong relationship which exists between Uganda, Australia and New Zealand.

Sixteen Rwandan students are seeking asylum in Uganda, saying they are the victims of harassment by security officials back home for refusing to join a Congolese rebel movement that allegedly recruits inside Rwandan territory.

Josephine Okot, founder of Uganda's leading seed company, says absence of advice and good seeds mean crop yields are only a third of their potential Try as she might, Josephine Okot cannot stay quiet, her voice getting louder and louder as she gets carried away with the point she is making.

After the regional finals were finished, the Miss Uganda beauty pageant is a step closer to crowning the next Miss Uganda 2013.

Fires start at home for a myriad reasons; candles are left burning, little children get a hold of matches, a faulty wire sparks a blaze in an electrical box, and in minutes, what should be your safe haven turns into a death trap .

Just a day after a stinging budget had the country cringing, the Cranes on Saturday gave Uganda something to smile about.

Kinalwa, a neighbour to the baby's home, was fond of carrying the one-year-old. Zam Namakula, the Women councillor Tomusange zone Ndeeba, a Kampala suburb, said it's the baby's grandmother Christine Naggayi who discovered the toddler had been defiled.