Insiders say the infighting is largely underpinned by merger reforms that saw staff of the now defunct Uganda National Roads Authority (UNRA) migrate to the works ministry. The fight for the permanent secretary job, insiders added, is the other factor that has created animosity within the works and transport sector.
The researchers found that four of the documented plant species, Tamarindus indica (enkoge), Warburgia ugandensis (balwegira), Mitragyna rubrastipulata (mutamatama), and Mondia whitei (mulondo), are listed on both the global and national red lists of threatened species, and were identified as having experienced a sharp population decline. The decline in medicinal plant availability was attributed to several factors, including illicit trade to Europe. “These plants are experiencing a significant decline due to overharvesting and the absence of sustainable use and conservation plans,” Tugume says.
In that moment, the phrase “water is life” took on a meaning far beyond words. “We live in a land of scarcity, but the disappearance of water and the worsening hunger crisis have made life even harder,” Michael Lorot, Chairperson of Lomarotoit Village, said, pausing as he gazed across the vast plains stretching towards the horizon.
“Most patients who take herbal medicine think that because it is natural, it is safe. Unfortunately, many of these products have unknown ingredients and unknown doses. They don’t only injure the kidneys, but also the liver,” Kalyesubula said. Specialists are also blaming the widespread habit of self-medicating with painkillers for the growing burden of kidney disease.
The adverts promised everything imaginable: reunion with lost lovers, manhood enlargement, womanhood enhancement, slimming treatments, skin-bleaching creams, business charms, and other miracles. My master claimed he could deliver them all. By midday, the heat was relentless. Somewhere along the way, I realised I had become a beggar. Many new arrivals survive this way. Others make it a full-time occupation. But the work comes with risks: police scrutiny, criminal gangs and the constant sting of xenophobic insults.
Musinguzi noted that the findings also indicate that HIV transmission remains active within commercial sex networks despite decades of targeted HIV interventions.
Legal proceedings have been ongoing since April over allegations that negligence by seven medical workers contributed to the Argentine star's death in 2020.
Kalule told New Vision that the project is 100% funded by the World Bank. "Initially, we received sh43b for the road works.
Since Russia invaded in 2022, the hospital has become the main centre for both soldiers and civilians wounded across east and southern Ukraine.
One woman remembered: “He found me collecting firewood and threatened to report me as an informer for the authorities. I tried to run, but he overpowered me, stripped me, and raped me.” Another said Mbambo had offered to help her gather wood, only to turn on her once they were deep in the forest. “I had no one to help me. I ended up accepting my fate,” she shared quietly.
A short walk into Mabira confirmed our fears. Charcoal mounds lay scattered across a wounded landscape. Fresh tree stumps, smouldering kilns and abandoned camps revealed a forest under relentless assault.
The Attorney General's recent legal opinion, sought by Ogwal himself, concluded that Okaka had already exhausted the two five-year terms permitted under the Universities and Other Tertiary Institutions Act and was therefore ineligible to continue occupying the office of Deputy Vice Chancellor (Academic Affairs).
There lay Nakamya, lifeless on the floor in a pool of blood. Beside her, still nursing at her mother’s breast, was her one-year-old daughter. The little girl’s dress, head, and face were soaked in blood, yet she continued feeding, unaware of the horror around her. Actually, we wanted to spare Nakamya, but one of our colleagues called Songa tipped us that rumours had started circulating in the village, pointing at us as suspects in Nyende’s murder, so we had to eliminate Nakamya, who would be a key witness in this case,” Boogere said.
According to the latest statistics obtained by The New Vision, in the last two months, 134 divorce petitions involving people aged between 35 and 40 have been filed at the family division of the High Court. Many of the petitioners are businesspeople, politicians and other professionals seeking the dissolution of their marriages, with adultery cited as one of the leading grounds for separation.
At the beginning of 2003, Matembe revealed her New Year’s resolution, stating: “I want to get closer to God so that He can control my life.” During that year, she, along with fellow ministers, Bidandi Ssali, Eriya Kategaya and Sarah Kiyingi, vehemently opposed the scrapping of presidential term limits from the 1995 Constitution. Her stand put her at conflict with those who wanted term limits scrapped for Museveni to vie again for presidency in 2006.
“When they returned back, Ssali and Godfrey carried the victim’s blood-soaked dress, which they hanged in a shrine, before it was removed a week later,” Nakanwagi told police in her statement. Investigators were left puzzled by what happened next.
One of the most humiliating moments came when Negesa went to give birth. Instead of receiving comfort and professional care at one of the most vulnerable moments in her life, she became the centre of unwanted attention. Medical staff asked her to undress, then called others to come and look at her as they laughed.
“About five men stormed my home on Saturday night. I was raped in turns by three of them as my three-year-old daughter watched. I later on collapsed and passed out. When I woke up, they had thrown me out of my house and literally taken away everything that I owned. I was forced to run away, taking away my two children. I don’t know where their terrified father is, until now,” she said.
Rugby star Sydney Gongodyo Gyabi was likely in excruciating pain that he could not explain to the crowd, which would eventually kill him. Even if he had tried, Police spokesperson Rusoke Kituuma believes the 27-year-old Uganda rugby international may never have been given the opportunity.
According to a study by Literacy and Adult Basic Education, an education consultancy, despite the enactment of policy to make local languages the medium of instruction in Ugandan primary schools, there have been a number of structural and pedagogical challenges to its effective implementation.