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By Gad Masereka Hon. Alice Kaboyo, Minister of State for the Luwero Triangle, officiated at the founding of the Bulemezi Heritage Cooperative Union on Saturday, with the goal of increasing coffee productivity in Uganda. The Union brings together coffee farmers to improve coffee production in the larger Luwero area, allowing Uganda to realise its aim of generating a fortune from coffee exports. While speaking at the conference, the Union’s leader Bukenya Paul Michael notified the Minister of their goals, which are as follows: 1. Revive a lively and functional cooperative...
Six unidentified bodies from the attack on the Lhubiriha secondary school still remain with the police. On the night of June 16, raiders with ties to the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) rebels attacked the school in Mpondwe town, Kasese district, killing 43 people. Since then, 17 completely burned- bodies have undergone DNA examination by forensic experts from the police and army to be matched with family. Only 11 pupils’ remains have been successfully identified through DNA testing, according to police spokesperson Fred Enanga. In order to provide blood samples for DNA matching, the kin of the other six bodies have not yet arrived, the speaker continued. Police have urged residents of Kasese and the nearby districts whose relatives are missing to come forward. Police have urged people in Kasese and neighbouring areas whose relatives are missing to show up at Bwera police station...
MOURNERS GATHER FOR THE FUNERAL OF FLORENCE MASIKA AND ZAKAYO MASEREKA DURING THEIR BURIAL RITUALS IN MPONDWE ON JUNE 18, 2023. (CREDIT: AFP) Kasese: Following the Allied...
Yoweri Museveni, the president of Uganda, issued an order on Sunday to send extra troops into the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to hunt down the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) rebels who are thought to have murdered 39 secondary school pupils last Friday in western Uganda’s Kasese area. In a statement, Museveni claims that the ADF should be completely destroyed in light of the most recent attack. The president’s significantly revised remark is provided below. I offer my condolences to the affected families and the entire nation. This latest crime committed by ADF members is illegal, desperate, terroristic, and pointless. The ADF, who had occupied the region for nearly 20 years, has been under intense pressure from the Congolese army and our troops ever since “Operation Shujja” began. We have inflicted so much damage on these criminals. To help you understand the situation, take my rough sketch of...
By Gad Masereka Every family of a student slain in the attack on Mpondwe-Lhubiriha Secondary School in Kasese District would receive five million shillings from the...
Thirty young people are being held by Jinja City police on suspicion of being part of a gang that has been terrorising locals. The group was...
The deputy Speaker of Parliament Thomas Tayebwa has eulogized former Lubaga South MP Paul Kato Lubwama, who died on Wednesday, saying he has been a social...
On Tuesday, people in the Kayanja parish Nyakiyumbu Sub County Kasese district found the body of a man who had allegedly drowned in a fish pond....
One of the six suspects accused of planning the 2019 kidnapping and murder of social worker Maria Nagirinya and her driver Ronald Kitayimbwa has admitted lying...
Mubarak Munyagwa, a former member of parliament for Kawempe South Division, has been arrested on suspicion of malicious property damage and conspiracy to conduct a criminal....
