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Talk of bigwigs, Juliana Kanyamozi and Jose Chameleon hold the title in the land of bananas, Uganda. For so long they have caused ripples in the Ugandan music industry, their hits going far beyond boundaries. However, the two have been accused of stealing songs from underground or rather, upcoming artistes. Juliana who is fresh from ...

Apeitolim Health Centre II in Lokopo Sub-county, Napak District, which serves more than 26,000 patients from Katakwi, Amuria, Abim, Kotido, Moroto and Napak districts, is facing a host of problems.

The Public Service ministry had to withdraw its 2014/15 budget estimates amid a row with former vice president Gilbert Bukenya who insists he has not received Shs500 million in benefits, contrary to what the ministry claims.

Singer Ragga Dee Teams Up With Rubeleto to Spear Head his New Car Dealing Business Both here and Overseas
By Jako David Waluluka

The latest we have is that singer Daniel Kazibwe aka Ragga Dee has teamed up with Engineer Ronald Ssemakula aka Rubeleto of Rubeleto construction to help boast his new

Mike Sekabembe produces an emphatic performance to beat Haruna Osumanu in the quarter-finals of the men's super-heavyweight.

WHAT? Training for bloggers, alternative media producers, online journalists, TV/radio producers on oil and gas. WHEN? Tuesday 19-Wednesday 20 August 2014 WHERE? African Centre for Media Excellence in Kampala SPEAKERS: Experts from PEPD, oil companies, service providers, donor agencies, civil society   WHY? Good governance of oil, gas and mining (extractive) resources and revenues requires effective oversight. A knowledgeable and active citizenry is very critical in ensuring that oversight through holding the government and oil companies accountable. The people, however, get most of their information about public affairs from a variety of media platforms. In many resource-rich countries, however, journalists and others like bloggers, actors and citizen journalists who communicate with the public often lack knowledge, skills and resources to effectively report on extractive-related issues. It is in this regard that the Fund for Global Human Rights (FGHR), based in Washington DC, has provided funding to augment the larger Natural Resource Governance Institute (formerly Revenue Watch Institute)-funded training for a select group of reporters from Uganda, Ghana and Tanzania over several months. The Kampala-based African Centre for Media Excellence, a not-for-profit professional organisation that seeks to help improve journalism and communication in Africa, is the local training partner in Uganda. [...]

Some of these small manufacturers claim that they have not been paid for up to four months, despite continuous distribution and after their products are sold by the supermarkets. They’re also jittery and even scared of speaking on the record for the fear of their products being blacklisted if they came out openly to comment on the issue. Some the products in question include honey, soap and juice.

Going from the recent profile up dates from of Self-proclaimed anger and tyranny queen Mary Luswata of the now infamous Scoop on Scoop show on Urban TV, it seems her venom spitting tongue has conjured loneliness and cold within her heart. Mary in recent days has made a name for herself for dissing and attacking …

    African Women’s Developed Fund and Femrite gathered women from different parts of the world for a non-fiction workshop here in Entebbe (Uganda). The workshop is still on. I have been following the conversations on twitter via #AWW14 and they have ranged from language in writing to hair to feminism to marketing one’s work…

Staff writer Mary Engel and photographer Robert Hood are in Uganda to report on the work of Fred Hutch's Program in Global Oncology and the Uganda Cancer Institute, particularly in the area of infection-related cancers.

Shock and disbelief gripped a village in Kisii County after a 60-year old woman was allegedly hacked to death by her daughter-in-law, following a disagreement over a cup of porridge.

In a statement to E! News, his publicist Jeffrey Leavitt said, 'It is with great sadness that I report the loss of my long time friend and client. James passed peacefully in his sleep, July 28, 2014, at 2 p.m. The world has lost a great actor. Sadly, I lost a dear friend.'

Rift Valley Railways (RVR) officials have confirmed that the Passenger Train Services are set to start in October with more than six coaches (wagons) ready for use, according to Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) spokesperson Peter Kaujju. Each wagon will carry more than 120 passengers.

Jamaican legendary singers Shaggy and Patra will on September 20 perform at Namboole Stadium in a concert dubbed the Club Mega Fest.

Nabila Ramdani: Libya needs viable political institutions and a credible security apparatus but none of the ‘liberators’ seem interested any more

There has been alot of buzz about me in the media all over the world,threats and all because of my opinion about the gays.

Before anyone accuses me,it's...

Fist bumps are more hygienic than handshakes and drastically reduce the risk of spreading infectious diseases, researchers in Britain have found.

Things have gotten tight for Ugandan singer Bobi Wine as gay people in Uganda and U.K continue to show how unhappy they are about singer Bobi Wines’ lyrics in his new song that’s scheduled to hit the waves soon. In one of the episodes of his show “Omubanda wa Kabaka” that airs on one of the Uganda-local TV channels was filmed writing lyrics that said

 ‘If you’re a man, you better be a man. If you’re a girl, you better stay a girl. Question, why do you do the abomination? Some men dress like a bitch and get it like a bitch. They stink like fish. Fire will burn the batty man. Burn all the batty man. All Ugandans get behind me and fight the batty man.’

Batty man in simple English can mean Nuts, Mad or Crazy meaning he refers the gay to be of a kind.

He was to perform alongside Ebonies  in London and Birmingham on the 10th-11th-23rd and 24th of August on their massive world tour

Bobi Wine however showed no fire as he went ahead to say how proud he is to be fighting for the family and the culture.

“Uganda does not support or allow gay people. God created Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve.”..said Bobi