Uganda News

By Vision Reporter Voting is underway in the Jinja Municipality East Parliamentary by-election. The seat fell vacant following a Court ruling that nullified the election of former state minister for trade Nathan Igime Nabeta.

Kibirige, a former Senior Deputy Registrar at Mbarara University of Science and Technology, was appointed by President Yoweri Museveni at the end of last year to take over the mantle of leading administration at Parliament.

China last month sent a senior official to symbolically hand over the keys to a nine-story twin tower to house Uganda's president and prime minister, a gift from Beijing.

2. The Uganda Bureau of Statistics invites sealed bids from eligible bidders for the provision of: Enumeration Area Maps 3. Bidding will be conducted in accordance with the Open Domestic Bidding procedures contained in the Public Procurement and Disposal of Public Assets Act, 2003, and is open to all bidders.

Brewing giant SABMiller plc will invest US$80m in a new brewery at its Ugandan subsidiary, Nile Breweries , doubling the company's design capacity to 3.6m hectolitres by 2013.

The Uganda Police have requested for 147 billion shillings as supplementary budget to help the force deal with walk to work protests in the Kampala Metropolitan Area.

Speaker Rebecca Kadaga has received the final report of the Public Accounts Committee on the loss of more than Shs150 billion in compensation claims to city businessmen Hassan Basajjabalaba and Col.

Mukisa has been on life support in Mulago hospital since he was admitted about 10 days ago after he took poison.

After several months of waiting, the government yesterday tabled a critical piece of legislation that seeks, among others, to regulate the country's oil and gas sector.

By Shortly after Idi Amin's overthrow in 1979, the prestigious magazine, The New African, carried a front page photo of Maj.

Students of Muyenga High School, Kampala celebrate their good performance with their head teacher, Mr Issa Ntege , yesterday.

Leaders of private education institutions have appealed to the government to provide them financial support to set up science labs.

The former Director of physical Planning at Kampala Capital City Authority, George Agaba has further been remanded to Luzira prison until 22nd February this year.

Gay rights activists on Wednesday condemned the reintroduction before Uganda's parliament of a bill that calls for the death penalty for certain homosexual acts and sparked an international outcry.

A protest at the Ugandan mission to the United Nations: The country's cabinet is amending a proposed anti-gay law after strong foreign protests .

KFM radio, one of the outlets of the Nation Media Group has officially rebranded today as it seeks to retain more prominence in an increasingly congested and competitive radio market.

The Family Life Network , founded by Stephen Langa, is the main organisation behind the efforts to revive the bill, according to Kikonyogo Kivumbi, executive director of civil rights organisation Uhspa-Uganda. "Many people in Uganda subscribe to the FLN ideology," he said.

The district returning officer Flavia Mujurizi says the team includes 51 presiding officers, 102 polling assistants and 51 police constables.

The executive director of Igongo Cultural Centre James Tumusiime receives the cheque from the High Commissioner of Rwanda High Commission Maj.Gen Frank Mugambage The First Lady of Rwanda, Janet Kagame has given $10,000 towards the promotion of culture between Uganda and Rwanda.

In this original BTB Investigation, we unveil the tragic story of Kirk Murphy, a four-year-old boy who was treated for "cross-gender disturbance" in 1970 by a young grad student by the name of George Rekers.