In a noble cause rarely seen on the African continent, the First Lady of Kenya, Margaret Gakuo Kenyatta, started the Beyond Zero campaign. This is a campaign that aims at improving access to maternal and child health outreach services throughout the country combining the fourth, fifth and sixth Millennium Development Goals. With the 2015 deadline […]
We are told that it is true. The government of Uganda reportedly failed to pay Kenya the hospital bills of Hon Eriya Kategaya. The Hospital bills in Nairobi were paid for by the deceased’s family friend. However, the NRM Government spent about 2 Billion Uganda shillings for his burial ceremony. But some […]
Information reaching our news desk has it that Uganda’s soldiers have been secretly hired to monitor Kenya’s national election exercise. The sources in Kenya told us that Nairobi accepted to hire Ugandan soldiers because they are rough enough to encounter any type of post election hooliganism and violence. Uganda soldiers will partner with other regional […]
President Yoweri Museveni has assumed chairmanship of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) regional economic bloc. Museveni takes over from the outgoing President of Malawi Joyce Banda who handed over the chairpersonship during the ongoing COMESA summit taking place at Speke resort hotel Munyonyo. . Speaking after assuming the seat, Museveni called […]
As the business community continues to grapple with cash bond issues, the private sector is calling for tax education on non-tariff barriers. This follows reports that authorities in Kenya implemented a cash bond on goods destined to Uganda, which caused discomfort among the business community in the country but later withdrew after negotiations with […]
Uganda’s Minister of Trade, Industry and Co-operatives, Amelia Kyambadde has protested to Kenya’s ministries of Trade and Industry threatening retaliatory measures against Kenyan imports to Ugandaif the recent cash bond regulation issued is not withdrawn. “I have been informed by theUganda business community that Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA), under notice CUS/L&A/LEG/1, has unilaterally decided on […]
If there is one thing that the race for FDC leader Dr Kizza Besigye’s successor will teach Ugandans, then it is whether or not Ugandans are indeed a bunch of tribalists. One of the people who have of recent come in the crosshairs is FDC National Mobilizer, Maj. Gen Mugisha Muntu whose party colleagues are […]
Close to two weeks since three Uganda military helicopters crashed in the slopes of mountain Kenya, the board of inquiry headed by Gen. Salim Saleh that president Museveni established to establish the cause of the accident has not started work. The board was meant to investigate and establish whether the Al Shabaab Islamic fighters […]
Our readers let this story not break your hearts, although it is really heart breaking. We have been told this evening by trusted sources in UPDF that the six fighter jets president Museveni’s NRM government purchased in March 2012 from Russia at a cost of over US$744 millions were junk. One of the military planes […]
Uganda’s intelligence believes there must have been a conspiracy into the suspected gun down of the threeUgandajet fighters by the suspected Al Shabaab militants. Sources within Uganda and Somalia military intelligence networks suspect it that there are some individuals within Kenyan intelligence and forces that do cooperate direct with Al Shabaab and they are not […]