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[Observer] A panel of five Constitutional court judges has dismissed an application by four-time presidential candidate Dr Kizza Besigye asking court to nullify the offence of unlawful assembly in the Penal Code Act.
[Observer] A panel of five Constitutional court judges has dismissed an application by four-time presidential candidate Dr Kizza Besigye asking court to nullify the offence of unlawful assembly in the Penal Code Act.
[Monitor] Jinja Regional Referral Hospital is releasing several bodies to their relatives for burial without postmortem due to the absence of a pathologist.
[Monitor] The National Drug Authority (NDA) has explained circumstances under which the 14 drugs that were recalled on December 3 ended up on the market under its watch.
[Monitor] A total of 41 specialised doctors trained abroad by government to champion the opening of a specialised medical services in Uganda are still waiting after the initiative reportedly failed to kick off due to funding constraints.
[Monitor] President Museveni has told Ugandans to wake up and emulate his family model if they want to become rich.
[Monitor] Equatorial Guinea President Teodoro Obiang Nguema will arrive in the country today to discuss with his Ugandan counterpart, Mr Museveni, the high number of refugees in Uganda.
[Monitor] Uganda's Parliament netball team yesterday defeated Kenya 53-23 to maintain their unbeaten run in netball at the ongoing Inter - Parliamentary Games.
[Monitor] The family was planning for a grand birthday party in February next year to celebrate his 104 birthday.
[Monitor] Parliament's Committee on Legal and Parliamentary Affairs is in the final touches on processing the government's five electoral reforms Bills and is expected to present a report to the House next week, this newspaper understands.
[Monitor] The 12 new judges of the High Court have been deployed to duty stations, two days after they were sworn in by President Museveni at State House Entebbe.
[Monitor] A key witness and mother of a seven- year-old boy who was gruesomely murdered by a machete wielding man at Wabigalo Village in Nakasongola District is seeking protection from the police, fearing for her personal safety.
[Monitor] Prophet Elvis Allan Mbonye has written to the head of Criminal Investigations Department (CID), Ms Grace Akullo, protesting what he calls slow investigations in a matter where he allegedly decampaigned the recent mass immunisation exercise.
[Monitor] A meeting between Uganda and Rwanda that should have taken place on October 17 as a follow up to the September 16 one in Kigali to ease tension between the neighbouring countries is scheduled to take place today.
[Monitor] Mr Dickson Ogwang, a former Deputy Ambassador to the United States has run to court, seeking an end to what he calls a bad marriage.
[Monitor] The Directorate of Criminal Investigations (CID) is waiting for the opinion from government agencies dealing in ICT and communications to establish whether Prophet Elvis Mbonye used a Facebook account in the name of Mugisha Elvis Mbonye to de-campaign the immunisation programme.
[Monitor] Government has been sued for its alleged failure to restrict the sale and importation of junk foods.
[The Conversation Africa] A great deal has been written about the Ugandan rebel group, the Lord's Resistance Army. Under their commander, Joseph Kony, the group became notorious for its brutal violence and use of child soldiers. But few images of the group are available. Those that are were mostly taken during peace negotiations between the government of Uganda and the Lord's Resistance Army in Juba, Sudan, in 2006.
[Monitor] President Museveni has asked the Judiciary to prioritise disposal of business cases to prevent Uganda from a bad reputation.
[Monitor] Last week, the education ministry and the National Curriculum Development Centre (NDC) officials, while appearing before the standing committee on climate change in parliament, notified the committee that the ministry has finished drawing out plans to have climate change studies incorporated into primary, secondary and tertiary institutions curricula.
[Monitor] Government is in line to win another round of up to $150m (about Shs550b) to support the Uganda Teacher and School Effectiveness Project (UTSEP) funded by Global Partnership for Education (GPE) through the World Bank.
[Monitor] A rambling marijuana licensing dilemma at the Ministry of Health is holding at least 100 bids from local and foreign companies as well as individuals, jostling to join the country's nascent multi-billion industry.
[Monitor] A panel of five Constitutional court judges has dismissed an application by four time presidential candidate Dr Kizza Besigye asking court to nullify the offense of unlawful assembly in the Penal code Act.
[Monitor] A senior official has said the European Union will finance the expansion of cocoa growing in Uganda.
[Monitor] Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) wants the cost of street lighting to reduce further than the 50 per cent drop they were given mid this year.
[Independent (Kampala)] Kampala, Uganda -Members of Parliament have summoned the Minister for Energy Irene Muloni over the start of a feasibility study on Murchison falls.
[Monitor] Hearing of prosecution evidence against Kyadondo East MP Robert Kyagulanyi alias Bobi Wine who is accused of disobeying statutory duty when he protested social media and mobile money tax has been deferred to February next year.
[Monitor] Uganda continued their fine start at the ongoing 10th edition of the EAC Parliamentary Games with
[Monitor] The Catholic Church in Uganda is mourning the death of the retired Bishop of Moroto Diocese, Henry Apaloryamam Ssentongo.
[Monitor] More than 1,000 people who were displaced by floods that hit Bundibugyo District on Saturday have registered at two reception centres which government has set up in the district.
[Monitor] There is fear in the mountainous district of Sironko in Bugisu sub region after another landslide hit the area leaving acres of coffee destroyed.