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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...
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...
A suspected warrior has shot dead Moses Lomuria, the LC 3 chairperson of Longaroe Sub County in Kotido district, a security informer only identified as Lokol, and two...
By Gad Masereka Apollo Nyegamehe, a wellknown businessman from Uganda, was killed when the vehicle he was riding in collided with a stopped truck on the Mbarara-Kabale highway in the Ntungamo District. According to one of his company managers and eyewitnesses, the National Resistance Movement (NRM) chairman for Rukiga District, known as Aponye, perished in the Thursday evening crash in Itojo. the businessman’s vehicle’s wreckage that was being driven at the time of the collision. After surviving the collision with injuries, the driver and two other passengers were sent to the hospital. Nearly 200 metres from the collision site, at Itojo Hospital, Nyegamehe’s body was collected. In order to further their investigations, police were also seen at the scene searching for other exhibits. According to reports, he was driving to his hometown of Kigo in Muhanga town council’s Rukiga District to attend a burial ceremony when the tragedy occurred. Nyegamehe was the owner of numerous companies operating under the name Aponye Uganda Limited, including those involved in produce, supermarkets, transit, and real estate. After providing the government with beans and maize flour to be supplied to vulnerable Ugandans impacted by the measures set by President Museveni to prevent the spread of the virus in the country, he gained additional popularity during the Covid-19-induced lockdown in 2020.
By Gad Masereka Kampala: A lady who allegedly kidnapped a 4-year-old boy from his mother after she allegedly failed to pay a Shs 200,000 debt has...
By Our Reporter TotalEnergies and the China National Offshore Oil Corporation signed a $10-billion agreement last year to develop Ugandan oilfields and ship the crude through...
By Our Reporter John Winston Katende one of the few senior lawyers in the city with experience of over 50 years, has today launched a life-changing...
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...
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...
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...
