Category: Uganda

  • Uganda revises first oil production to 2022

    Uganda revises first oil production to 2022

    Uganda expects to begin producing oil in 2022, its energy minister Irene Muloni said on Wednesday, indicating a slight delay from the country’s revised target of 2021. Uganda discovered crude reserves more than 10 years ago but production has been repeatedly delayed by disagreements with field operators over taxes and development strategy. A lack of…

  • Uganda allays Ebola fears after 13 isolated

    Uganda allays Ebola fears after 13 isolated

    Uganda’s Health ministry on Wednesday said there is no Ebola case in the country after blood tests from a man suspected to have died of the haemorrhagic fever was found to be negative. “Samples taken off from the deceased tested negative for Ebola. Ministry of Health and partners remain vigilant to prevent importation of any…

  • Senior officers found guilty of failing to protect Museveni

    Senior officers found guilty of failing to protect Museveni

    Three senior police officers were Monday convicted of neglect of duty that led to the alleged stoning of President Yoweri Museveni’s vehicle in the northwestern town of Arua last year. Of the six police bosses arraigned in Arua last week, the chairman of the Police Disciplinary Court Commissioner of Police Denis Odongpiny said the evidence…

  • Uganda gives shoot-to-kill order against Kenyan rustlers

    Uganda gives shoot-to-kill order against Kenyan rustlers

    A Ugandan minister has given a shoot-to-kill order against any Kenyan pastoralist who enters the country while armed. The State Minister for Karamoja Affairs, Mr Moses Kizige, gave the order to Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) in the northern Amudat district during the celebrations to mark National Resistance Movement (NRM) day on January 26. He…

  • Kenya says Tanzania, Uganda are distorting maize market

    Kenya says Tanzania, Uganda are distorting maize market

    Kenyan farmers have raised the alarm on the saturation of the cereals market with maize from Uganda and Tanzania, causing a glut and denying them income. A bumper harvest across the region last year caused an oversupply and a subsequent fall in prices, resulting in farmers struggling to get market access and leaving governments unable…

  • Uganda police release BBC journalists

    Uganda police release BBC journalists

    Police in Uganda have released a team of BBC journalists following their arrest on Wednesday night in the capital, Kampala. The journalists –two Ugandans Godfrey Badebye, Rashid Kaweesa; a Kenyan Kassim Mohamad; their driver Shafiq Kisaame; and Vivian Nakaliika, the wife of a local journalist from NBS Television who was working with them — had…

  • Uganda police arrest BBC investigative journalists

    Uganda police arrest BBC investigative journalists

    Uganda police have detained five people including journalists from the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC Africa) who are reported to have been investigating the theft and sale of government drugs. According to Kampala Metropolitan Police spokesman Mr Patrick Onyango, three journalists — Godfrey Badebye, Kassim Mohamad, and Rashid Kawesa — and their driver Shafiq Kisame were…

  • Vietnamese charged with wildlife trafficking in Uganda

    Vietnamese charged with wildlife trafficking in Uganda

    Two Vietnamese nationals arrested last week were arraigned on charges of wildlife trafficking, the Uganda Wildlife Authority has said. Dhan Yon Chiew and Nguyen Son Dong were detained after customs officials of the Uganda Revenue Authority seized a contraband shipment of ivory and pangolin scales, the largest the country has ever uncovered on Thursday, January…

  • AFRICA: IF I WAS PRESIDENT

    AFRICA: IF I WAS PRESIDENT

    n 2010, two years after the election of Barack Obama, the first African-American President of the United States, Haitian singer, songwriter  and Grammy Award winner Wyclef Jean released the single If I was President pointing out his view on the problems that really affect people and that politicians should worry much more about. Wyclef Jean was born on…

  • DRC vs Uganda $10b award case reopened

    DRC vs Uganda $10b award case reopened

    The International Court of Justice is reopening a 14-year-old case in which it ordered Uganda to pay the Democratic Republic of Congo $10 billion, after repeated pleas by Kampala for a review of the award. The ICJ, which sits at Peace Place in The Hague, in the Netherlands, has fixed the first round of the…

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