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Air Algerie plane with over 110 on board missing over Mali3 hours ago

AN Air Algerie plane with more than 110 people on board including French and Spanish nationals went missing during a flight from Burkina Faso to Algiers....

Opposition MPs want select committee to probe Rwenzori attacks4 hours ago

Wafula Oguttu has said that there is a crisis in Rwenzori region which needs urgent attention.....

Govt asked to compensate Opit Shooting victims5 hours ago

Parliament has asked where one person was government to compensate families of the February 7, 2014 shooting at Opit trading....

National

Teachers blame poor performance on government59 minutes ago

The disparity between private and public schools continues to widen, with the latter’s performance deteriorating every year, something education experts have blamed on the government’s rigid policy o...

Second foreign tourist shot dead in Mombasa3 hours ago

A foreign female tourist was shot dead in Kenya's port city of Mombasa on Thursday, the second such killing there this month, police said...

Business

MPs warn government on coffee, banana diseases 1 hour ago

Uganda’s coffee and banana shambas are under attack by diseases and this might cause huge losses to the country and to the farmers if the problem is not urgently checked, Members of Parliament have w....

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Involve us in Namanve land allocation, UMA asks govt 1 hour ago

Officials from Uganda Manufacturers Association (UMA) have asked government to involve them in the allocation of land in Namanve Industrial Park to avoid being hoodwinked by fake investors who cannot... ..

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Sport

Commonwealth Games open in colourful, moving ceremony14 hours ago

Queen Elizabeth II has opened the 20th Commonwealth Games after a moving and colourful ceremony at Celtic Park.....

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Mo Farah out of Commonwealth Games 22 minutes ago

GLASGOW Commonwealth Games were handed a heavy body blow early on Thursday's opening day with the news that athletics legend Mo Farah had pulled out due to injury....

Chesang sets new junior record 10 hours ago

Uganda’s Stella Chesang finished fourth at the IAAF World Junior championships with a new national junior record at the IAAF World Junior championships taking place in Eugene.....

Uganda begins quest for Commonwealth glory 23 hours ago

UGANDA’S quest for medals at the 20th Commonwealth Games starts off with a badminton encounter against Kenya. The two nations clash in one of the opening fixtures of the mixed group encounters....

Uganda Cubs to return to camp Staruday 11 minutes ago

The Uganda Cubs will not resume training for the return leg of the Africa U-17 Youth Championships qualifiers until Saturday because the players are not available.....

Entertainment And Lifestyle

Juliana's son Keron wrote his last words13 hours ago

In an emotional speech, the father of Juliana's son said their son died in his arms, and had scribbled his last words.....

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MP Akena in a war of two women 1 day ago

Betty Amongi, the MP for Oyam County South has a pending case at Kira Road Police Station of threatening violence (G.E.F 029/2014) against another woman....

Juliana Kanyomozi son’s body flown back 1 day ago

The casket bearing the body of local musician Juliana Kanyomozi’s son was flown back home on Tuesday evening.....

‘I cannot ask sex workers to quit’ 1 day ago

A woman who describes herself as the "ssenga (counselor) of sex workers" says she cannot ask prostitutes to quit the trade.....

Opinion / Columnists

Vision 2040 is a reality for Uganda's strategic plans

Vision 2040 is a reality for Uganda's strategic plans By John Vianney Ahumuza Uganda has adopted a series of national development programmes aimed at transforming the economy. Previous plans have

The Origins of War

The 59 skeletons were found in 1964, lying together in a gravesite beside the Nile near what is now the Egyptian-Sudanese border. They died between 13,000 and 14,000 years ago, and some of them seeme

Make voting compulsory

Uganda is going to the presidential and parliamentary polls in 2016 to exercise their democratic duty in choosing their leaders.

Delay of Capitation grant release very risky

Due to the problems Universal Primary Education (UPE) is facing, some critics would suggest scrapping it since its implementation has become more tedious and expensive than planned. Under the UPE pr

World

Israeli shelling kills at least 15 in UN Gaza shelter - health ministry 2 hours ago

At least 15 people were killed and many wounded on Thursday when Israeli forces shelled a U.N.-run school sheltering Palestinian refugees in northern Gaza

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Science & technology

Foursquare rebrands, unveils new logo 39 minutes ago

SOCIAL media app Foursquare announced a major rebranding, shifting its app away from "checking in" at certain locations around the world, and focusing more on helping users search for nearby places....

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OS X Yosemite public beta arrives 30 minutes ago

ON Thursday, fall came early for hundreds of thousands of Mac users as Apple released its first public beta of OS X Yosemite... ..

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