A combination of anti riot police and regular police has shot bullets and tear gas into the groups of government aided students at Kyambogo and Nkumba University.

The students of Nkumba and Kyambogo universities staged strikes on Tuesday morning over allowances and poor sanitation. In the process the police bullets injured over five students of Kyambogo University and the good Samaritans rushed them to Mulago Hospital in critical condition. Also some students suffocated after the policemen reportedly fired tear gas in their rooms.

Business around Nkumba and Kyambogo universities also came to a standstill after the students’ lit fire in the middle of the roads.

The students blocked the roads this time protesting against the increasing police brutality in Kampala. The students also shattered door and window glasses of cars and buildings.

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Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) has asked the women of Uganda to tie themselves on trees at the NGO Forum (Kabalagala) head offices in solidarity with the mothers who are caring for children with nodding disease.

The mysterious nodding disease invaded northern Uganda and it has already claimed several lives and dozens of others are admitted in hospitals in critical condition.

The FDC women leader Ingrid Turinawe says that the women should tie themselves as a symbol of the indignity women have had to face as they tie their nodding children to trees in Northern Uganda.

She says that even men are free to join the women in the campaign to untie Uganda from all the ills that have plagued our nation. “Come join us as we declare – no to indignity, to suffering, to corruption, to all the other things that we want to untie our country from. Come to the NGO Forum,” she says.

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Kampala woman Member of Parliament Nabila Nagayi Ssempala is improving following last Friday evening’s road accident involving her car and a police patrol van.

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 The police spokesman, Asuman Mugyenyi confirmed the accident and attributed it to reckless driving.

He says that the injured persons were a couple. The unidentified couple has been admitted to Mulago hospital in critical condition.

Eye witnesses have told our reporters and the police that the accident was caused by a driver who tried to drive faster before the train approached him and in the process he failed. The train hit the vehicle injuring the couple.

 The driver of the vehicle got injuries on the abdomen and on the head. But the condition he was in was not threatening his life.

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