[Observer] The morning of December 27, 2020, was like any other daybreak for Ashiraf Saif-Allah Kasirye, a reporter working with and for Ghetto Media, an online, TV affiliated to National Unity Platform (NUP) former presidential candidate, Robert Kya...

[Thomson Reuters Foundation] As world marks Red Hand Day, United Nations warns coronavirus could fuel child recruitment by armed groups

[Monitor] The United Kingdom (UK) government has frozen about Shs206m (£40,909) in funding to Uganda Police Force, Uganda Prisons Service and Uganda People's Defence Forces (UPDF) over human rights abuses and the Ugandan government's increasing repr...

[Independent (Kampala)] Kampala -- As the government continues to put much emphasis on investing in big infrastructure ventures, some members of the public have raised concerns about transparency right from procurement up to completion of projects.

[Monitor] Parents and proprietors of pre-primary schools have asked government to review its decision and allow them reopen nursery schools to allow the children resume learning.

[East African] The recently relaunched Uganda Airlines took delivery of another Airbus A330neo on February 2, completing the first phase of the airline's revival plan whose target was having six aircraft.

[Monitor] Ten days since the Deputy Inspector General of Police, Maj Gen Paul Lokech, issued a 48-hour ultimatum to two directorates to release people arrested by security men, none of his instructions has been implemented.

[Monitor] Four people have been confirmed dead by police after a fuel tanker hit a stationary lorry at Kasunganyaja trading centre, along Fort Portal-Kasese Road in Bunyangabu District.

[Monitor] The military helicopter that crashed close to Entebbe International Airport yesterday, killing Capt Carol Busingye, likely suffered a mechanical malfunction, highly-placed security sources said last night.

[Observer] The police in Bushenyi have arrested Loice Tihainomwangire on allegations of killing her boyfriend.

[Monitor] Two police officers attached to Bukwo Central Police Station in Eastern region were on Thursday hacked to death by an angry mob in Kapkworos Sub County, Bukwo District.

[Nairobi News] Ugandan Socialite Zari Hassan has hit back on critics saying her relationship with her new man "Dark Stallion" would end in premium tears.

[Monitor] Mbarara second division Court Martial has sentenced two civilians to 100 years in prison for the murder of a police officer and running away with his gun in Kabale District.

[Monitor] Mr Godfrey Barasa on Tuesday crossed the Ugandan border to seek a vacancy for his children at St Mary's Nursery School in Busia, Kenya.

[Monitor] Government has partnered with Delight Uganda Limited (DUL) to establish a Shs30 billion fruit processing plant in Nwoya district, Northern Uganda.

[Monitor] An estimated 100 tonnes of fish, mainly Nile Perch, have so far died mysteriously in a space of two months at various landing sites around Lake Victoria, government has revealed.

[CAF] Tanzania U-20 bounced back to thrash their counterparts Uganda 5-3 at Benjamin Mkapa Stadium, Dar es Salaam in a friendly ahead of the Total U-20 Africa Cup of Nations, Mauritania 2021.

[Monitor] URA coach Sam Ssimbwa believes they can push recent back-to-back champions Vipers SC and KCCA all the way in the charge for the StarTimes Uganda Premier League (SUPL) title this season.

[Independent (Kampala)] The Ministry of Education has released a detailed timetable for all students to return to school after a year out of study due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

[Independent (Kampala)] Kampala -- Ugandan Members of Parliament (MPs) are unhappy with government's failure to resolve a dairy products ban imposed by neigbours Kenya.

[Monitor] Finance minister, Mr Matia Kasaija, has refuted reports of a plan by government to start taxing cash withdrawals from banks.

[East African] Uganda will buy 18 million doses of the Oxford vaccine at a higher price than South Africa, and more than triple what the European Union is paying for the same, the government announced this week.

[Monitor] The government is considering taxing cash withdrawals from commercial banks, according to a leaked letter seen by this newspaper.

[Monitor] By now you might have seen or heard about the sensational piece of fake news that went viral a few days on WhatsApp, claiming that western Uganda, President Yoweri Museveni's home region (with a third of Uganda's population), had 270 MPs, m...

[DW] A spate of disappearances linked to January's general election have raised alarm among members of the opposition and the families of those kidnapped.

[Monitor] Online businesses in Uganda were first hit by last year's four-month Covid-19 lockdown and just when they were staggering to life, the government struck them down last month with the shutdown of Internet and social media.

[Monitor] The Internet shutdown that started on January 13 caused huge losses as businesses, government agencies, organisations and web-based operations such as e-tax payments were disrupted.

[Monitor] A Uganda People's Defence Forces (UPDF) jet ranger on Thursday crashed in Entebbe, near Lido beach moments after takeoff.

[Monitor] Government through Ministry of Tourism will spend $600 million (Shs2.2 trillion) in developing tourism infrastructure across the country in the next five years.

[Monitor] President Museveni has said with proper planning and resource prioritisation, the Judiciary can have a magistrate at every sub-county.