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Reports of voter bribery, ballot stuffing and arrest of opposition Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) polling agents have dominated the first half of voting time in some polling stations in the Soroti City East byelection where competition is said to be tight between Moses Okia Attan and Herbert Edmund Ariko of the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM).
Uganda’s Ministry of Public Service has released the salary structure for the current financial year (FY2022-2023), showing how much each public (civil) servant or government employee will be earning starting July 2022.
Opposition Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) President Patrick Oboi Amuriat has been arrested hours before voting in the Soroti City East byelection could start, officials from his party say.
There was chaos in Akisim in Soroti on July 27 night and early hours of Thursday, Juky 28, after suspected police and military officers broke into the home of Soroti City Woman MP Anna Adeke, arresting Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) officials and relatives of the female legislator.
President Joe Biden has sent the US Representative to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield to Uganda after Russian foreign affairs minister Sergey Lavrov ended his trip to the impoverished East African country and delivered Vladimir Putin’s message to the nation’s longest serving ruler Gen Yoweri Kaguta Tibuhaburwa Museveni.
After a year of waiting for President Yoweri Kaguta Tibuhaburwa Museveni to appoint a substantive minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs, Democratic Party (DP) president general Norbert Mao has been sworn in to take up the job.
There is panic in the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) camp after their Soroti City East byelection candidate Moses Okia Attan claimed he was poisoned, and consequently hospitalized.
Catherine Bitarakwate Musingwiire, the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Public Service, has revealed that secondary school arts teachers will start getting a salary of Shs4m monthly in 2026.
First Lady Janet Kataaha Museveni’s Ministry of Education and Sports has appointed nearly 600 more teachers from the Kampala Centre of the Education Service Commission (ESC).