Police in Kampala on Wednesday tear gassed casual workers at UGACOF in Bweyogerere. The police accused the UGACOF workers of using their constitutional right to hold a sit down strike demanding for an increase in their salaries, honoraria and wages. Although the cost of living in Kampala is too high, the management of UGACOF pays […]
East African cerebrated singer Dr. Jose Chameleon stormed the Tanzanian embassy on Kagera Road in Kampala and pitched camp outside the embassy offices bringing work around the embassy to a stand still. The singer was demanding for the release of his passport. He vowed not to eat food and to sleep at the embassy […]
Makerere University candidates vying for the post of Vice Chancellor are on strike. They have shunned the last interviewing session protesting the way it was conducted. Among the candidates, it was only Prof. Venansius Baryamureeba who accepted to be interviewed. Other candidates in the race are Professors Tonny Oyana, Barnabas Nawangwe, Edward Kirumura, Eli […]
The Member of Parliament for Kalungu East Joseph Sewungu is in trouble after the government got intelligence information that he has received money from Uganda’s enemies to sponsor teachers strike. Sources in Uganda government told our informers that Sewungu reportedly got some money recently from Rwanda to run the national teachers strike starting on […]
Violet groups of Makerere University students on Monday staged a fight with the police and in the process four police men were injured and dozens of students arrested. The police had gone to Makerere University to curb the students strike at the university’s main campus. The students were protesting against a new internship policy. The […]
Makerere University students have violently demonstrated on the roads around their institution of learning because they have not been paid their faculty allowances and internship allowance. The demonstration made the police to heavily deploy at all the gates of Makerere University, schools, colleges and offices for fear that the rioting students would burn them. The […]
Passengers’ temperatures have cooled down on Wednesday after bus drivers, owners and operators called off their week long strike that had paralyzed the country and led some sections of the people in Uganda to allege that the strike was anti government. Most service sectors in Uganda almost stage daily anti government strikes in Kampala […]
Ugandagovernment has lost over 6 billion shillings during the three day traders strike in Kampala Capital City Authority. On Wednesday this week thousands of Traders inUgandaespecially inKampalaclosed their shops protesting against the high interest rates commercial banks charge on loans. The traders strike was peaceful although the police arrested some of the traders it suspected […]
Hundreds of shops in Kampala, Mityana, Masaka and Mubende district have been closed as traders under their umbrella association of Kampala City Traders Association (KACITA) started their three-day sit down strike protesting against high interest rates charged on loans by commercial banks. The commercial banks operating in Uganda charge over 27% on loans. Our reporters […]
Hundreds of shops in Kampala, Mityana, Masaka and Mubende district have been closed as traders under their umbrella association of Kampala City Traders Association (KACITA) started their three-day sit down strike protesting against high interest rates charged on loans by commercial banks. The commercial banks operating in Uganda charge over 27% on loans. Our reporters […]