There was drama during a session of the United Nations (UN) Committee against Torture (CAT) in Geneva, Switzerland after angry Ugandan women stormed the meeting and protested a speech by the country’s Attorney General, Kiryowa Kiwanuka. 

There has been public uproar after Kampala International University (KIU) after the administration of the higher education institution demanded that all student nurses and midwives should take pregnancy tests before being allowed to sit their examinations. 

Youthful Kampala city tycoon Hamis Kiggundu aka Ham has sued Buganda Kingdom monarch Ronald Muwenda Mutebi II over the controversial issue of the ownership of land in Kigo. Months ago, Ham seemed to have given up on the 140 acres of land in Kigo.

Officers of the Uganda Police Force (UPF) in the Western Uganda District of Bushenyi are investigating circumstances under which a female university student was killed by unknown people. The body of Susan Kyatuhaire, who was 24 years of age, was found lying lifeless on the veranda of the room she was renting. 

Fresh details are slowly emerging on the arrest of and detention, for hours, of members of the family of former minister without portfolio Hajji Abdul Nadduli. Up to 10 relatives of Nadduli were arrested by operatives of the Chieftaincy of Military Intelligence (CMI), only for them to be released many hours later. 

A court in Kenya has cleared the country’s deputy president, Rigathi Gachagua, of corruption charges related to a Ksh 7.4bn fraud case that has he has been battling even before he and his boss President Dr William Samoei Ruto were elected to the two top-most offices in the land. 

Government officials were left in shock on Wednesday, November 09 afternoon after a colleague collapsed and died during a conference on the current financial year’s (FY 2022-2023) budget regarding funds for the Parish Development Model (PDM). 

Ugandan opposition leader Dr Kizza Besigye has punched holes in a move by First Lady Janet Museveni’s Ministry of Education and Sports to close the third term of the current academic calendar two weeks earlier as a way of preventing the spread of the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in education institutions.

Power distributor Umeme Limited has opened up on reports that it will leave Uganda at the expiry of its 20-year Concession from the Government of Uganda. The expiry date, which is the 30th day of March, 2025, is a few years away.