Kisoro residents got a paralysis on Monday morning when an Isuzu Elf truck registration number UAW 739M that was transporting traders with their sacks of Irish potatoes, crates of soda and beer, failed its driver and hit the guard rails at Kanaba hills in Kanaba sub county in Kisoro district leaving eleven killed on spot […]
Following a fatal accident which happened this morning at Katende along Mpigi – Masaka road claiming lives, the roads body UNRA has come out to attribute the continued accidents along the Katende –Masaka stretch to high speed on the new smooth surface along the route. According to Eng. James Okiror who is the head of maintenance at UNRA, drivers are using very high […]
A 42 year old mother is Speciaza Nambooze is asking for help to treat her children who got injured in an accident along the Mityana-Mubende road on Sunday. The accident that involved a commuter taxi left atleast 5 people dead, some of them students returning to school. Namboze too, and her children were heading back […]
A plane crash in Uganda at least injured two African pilots. The plane belonging to SorotiCivilAviationFlyingSchool on Monday afternoon crash landed in a bush injuring two pilots who were doing piloting exercises in northern Uganda. The accident occurred at about 100 meters from GweriSub-county headquarters at midday. The accident according to our informers in […]
The number of people dying in road accidents in Jinja district has risen. The Jinja district traffic officer Dickson Rugundana said seven deaths were reported last month higher that the two deaths in September. A total of twenty five accidents occurred in Jinja in October with six being fatal, thirteen serious and six minor. Rugundana […]
Several Christians and Muslims have been killed in Uganda in a clash. Over 14 people including Muslims and Christians died on Tuesday morning in a bus accident that occurred at Marongo in Lwengo District along Masaka-Mbarara highway in central Uganda (Buganda kingdom). Also over other 50 people have been admitted in Lyantonde district Hospital […]
It is eight years now since Ugandans woke up to the sad news that the former Attorney General, Francis Ayume had died in a motor accident. On the morning of Tuesday, May 18, 2004, the people of Uganda woke up to the sad news of a grisly accident that had claimed the life of […]
More than two years after Aswa MP Reagan Okumu raised the issue of top UPDF officers being from one region, western Uganda on the floor of Parliament, the top leadership of the Uganda People’s Defence Forces as well as the Special Forces Group, formerly the presidential guard brigade, remains dominated by officers from western Uganda. […]
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Intensive Language Course in Germany Scholarships: DAAD offers grants to graduate students at North American universities to attend 8-week intensive language courses at leading institutes in Germany. The scholarship of €1,300 includes tuition, accommodations (arranged by the host institute), and a cash allowance for meals and incidental expenses in full or in part, depending on […]