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Hours after activist Dr Sarah Bireete reminded Ugandans of a proposal to tax cows, debate on the suggestion is raging on, with Frank Tumwebaze, the Minister of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries, vehemently expressing his disdain at the proposal.
A key leader in Uganda’s LGBTQI community is one of the three nominees for the 2023 EU Human Rights Defenders Award 2023. According to the shortlist announced on Wednesday, April 12, 2023, Richard Lusimbo, journalists Agather Atuhaire and Solomon Sserwanjja will compete for the human rights defenders award.
The leadership of the Uganda Police Force (UPF) has suspended an officer who was captured pepper spraying journalists in Kampala on Tuesday, April 11, 2023.
A Ugandan activist has left some people in shock after she proposed a tax on cows! Her proposal came as the government, through the Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development, presented proposed tax amendment bills detailing new taxes that the Museveni regime hopes to introduce starting July this year when the 2023-2024 financial year begins.
A criminal gang behind up to 12 attacks on Ugandan schools has been busted following the arrest of suspects reportedly commanded by a Kenyan national. With Uganda Police Force (UPF) registering 12 cases of attacks on schools, the Flying Squad Unit embarked on a mission to hunt down the criminals behind these attacks.
Besigye flew out of Uganda at the beginning of February 2023 after he began feeling “quite unwell.” Spending most of the time with his family in Geneva, Dr Besigye was advised to take some therapeutic rest, something he says he devotedly did for a period of two months.
Ugandan President Gen Yoweri Kaguta Tibuhaburwa Museveni has announced what he will do to all his ministers named in the Karamoja iron sheets scandal.
Jacklet Atuhaire Rwabukurukuru, the former Sheema District Woman MP who currently serves as a commissioner of the Uganda Human Rights Commission (UHRC), has been remanded over attempted murder of a close friend.
At least nine people have died in a Good Friday accident along the Masaka-Mbarara Highway, ASP Faridah Nampiima, the Public Relations Officer (PRO) and spokesperson of Traffic and Road Safety, has confirmed.