western uganda

Uganda Red Cross aids flood victims in Ntoroko district

The Uganda Red Cross Society has distributed essential household items to 312 households displaced by floods in Ntoroko District, Western Uganda. The distribution through URCS Bundibugyo branch followed a vulnerability capacity assessment in the affected sub counties of Butungama and Bweramule. The items included tarpaulins, cups, plates, blankets, saucepans, and soap and water purification tablets […]

UPDF explains why out of 64 top UPDF officers, 55 are from western Uganda?

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. […]

Why KCCA’s George Agaba is out of prison on bail but Makmot remains in prison

  Hundreds of people in Kampala have called in radio talk shows wondering how the former Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) director; George Agaba, a person facing murder charges could be released on bail pending trial and his co accused, and a guard Santos Makmot remains in the prison. Some of the callers wondered whether […]

Problems job seekers go through

Jobs are scarce in most parts of the world. In countries like Uganda, South Africa and some parts of Europe getting a job is as hard as passing through the hole of a needle. Our reporters to day bring you the problems job seekers in Uganda go through. For purposes of being accurate, we have […]

A4C plans demonstration in Museveni’s home area

Members of the opposition Activists for Change pressure group are planning to take their walk–to- work protests and anti government rallies to Rwakitura, the district where Museveni’s upcountry home is located. Intelligence reports indicate that A4C is to spread anti government crusades in westernUgandain a bid to discredit Museveni’s government. The A4C coordinator, Matthias Mpuuga […]

Why FDC calls some of its MPs ‘rebels’?

In our first news report we told you that FDC has branded some of its MPs in the Uganda ninth parliament as rebels. The rebel MPs in FDC we are told are those FDC members who criticise the party president Col. Kiiza Besigye whenever he goes wrong. Like in NRM, Besigye doesn’t want people to […]

Uganda government gives Tullow oil production Licence

The government of Uganda has awarded  to Tullow Oil Company an oil production license for 400 million barrel kingfisher oil well found in western Uganda worth 1.5 billion US dollars.   The long waited move will see a resumption of production activities in the Abertine Graben that had halted due to the expiry of Heritage […]

Fosterwheeler Final report on Uganda oil Industry Refinery

Here is the most coveted document on Uganda’s oil industry, the country’s oil potential and key investment opportunities and strategies at both micro, national and regional levels. Download a PDF of the Foster wheeler Uganda Refinery study report here.  The government of Uganda hired Swiss Engineering and Construction company Foster Wheeler Energy Limited (FWEL) in […]

Government to issue stamps for LCs

The era of each LCI village council across the country to print its own stamp or stamps is soon coming to an end. This is because many LCI executives have been abusing the right given to them to make their own stamps. Many LCI executives especially chairpersons, vice chairpersons, and secretaries have been holding different […]

Ruling party in Uganda: National Resistance Movement stages anti Col. Kiiza Besigye conference in western Uganda

Being in power, the ruling government is not taking Col. Kiiza Besigye and his FDC activities and support lightly. We have been told that the National Resistance Movement (NRM) working hand in hand with intelligence networks have embarked on conventions in Ntungamo and western Uganda in general aiming at sensitizing the people there not to […]