Latest news from Uganda http://www.ugee.com Wed, 08 Sep 2010 10:12:37 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.ugee.com/images/M_images/joomla_rss.png http://www.ugee.com Latest news from Uganda http://www.ugee.com/201005062763/Latest-News/Nigerian-President-Yaradua-Dead.html President Yaradua of Nigeria has died. A presidential aide has confirmed to the BBC. According to the BBC, A spokesman, who did not want to be named, said Mr Yar'Adua died on Wednesday. News - Latest News Thu, 06 May 2010 00:04:46 +0100 http://www.ugee.com/201004262753/Latest-News/Museveni-Says-Uganda-Ready-To-Cooperate-With-Iran.html President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of the Islamic Republic of Iran has said it is treason and betray of mankind to deny nations who need access to nuclear energy that right. “We think it is the right of all nations to use nuclear energy. No one has a right to deny any nation this right,” he said. News - Latest News Mon, 26 Apr 2010 11:21:31 +0100 http://www.ugee.com/201004242752/Latest-News/Ahmadinejad-to-visit-Uganda-for-nuclear-talks.html Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will visit UN Security Council member Uganda this week for talks over its nuclear programme and Kampala's oil industry, the foreign ministry here said Tuesday. He's coming for a two-day visit where will be discussing bilateral relations, said James Mugume, the permanent secretary of Uganda's foreign ministry. News - Latest News Sat, 24 Apr 2010 08:06:19 +0100 http://www.ugee.com/201004242751/Latest-News/Ugandan-opposition-chiefs-probed-over-Museveni-claims.html Uganda's police are investigating two top opposition leaders, including a former UN special envoy, over criticisms of President Yoweri Museveni, officials said Monday. Olara Otunnu, a former UN special envoy for child soldiers who heads the Uganda People's Congress, has been summoned to explain his claims that Museveni deliberately prolonged a two-decade war against Ugandan rebels for his own benefit. News - Latest News Sat, 24 Apr 2010 08:00:25 +0100 http://www.ugee.com/201003282750/Latest-News/120-judges-Deployed-in-Uganda-to-clear-backlog.html One hundred and twenty judges most of whom are magistrates are to be deployed to help to clear the cronic backlog of cases both civil and criminal that have plagued the judiciary for years. News - Latest News Fri, 23 Apr 2010 01:00:00 +0100 http://www.ugee.com/201003132734/Latest-News/BAT-UGANDA-PROFITS-DOUBLE.html The British American Tobacco (BAT) Uganda has seen its profits more than double this year after the country enjoyed a bumper crop this year.Net income for the year through December rose to 8.01 billion Ugandan shillings ($3.86 million) from 3.24 billion shillings a year earlier, the Kampala-based company said in an advertisement published in New Vision newspaper. News - Latest News Fri, 23 Apr 2010 01:00:00 +0100 http://www.ugee.com/201003122733/Latest-News/UGANDA-NATIONAL-INSURANCE-SHARES-OVERSUBSCRIBED.html Uganda’s National Insurance Corporation was oversubscribed after Uganda Shilling (UGX) 9.5 billion (US$4.6 million came in applications when Government offered its remaining 40% stake in the company in an 161,552,000 shares totalling UGX 7.2 bln. News - Latest News Thu, 22 Apr 2010 01:00:00 +0100 http://www.ugee.com/201003112732/Latest-News/KABALE-KATUNA-HIGHWAY-SINKS.html @page Section1 P.MsoNormal LI.MsoNormal DIV.MsoNormal DIV.Section1 KAMPALA (Reuters) - Heavy rains have collapsed sections of a highway in southwestern Uganda linking it to Rwanda, slowing goods transport between the two landlocked countries, a roads official said on Thursday. News - Latest News Thu, 22 Apr 2010 01:00:00 +0100 http://www.ugee.com/201003102731/Latest-News/Floods-destroyed-scholastic-materials-in-Butaleja.html @page Section1 P.MsoNormal LI.MsoNormal DIV.MsoNormal DIV.Section1 About four schools of Doho, Namalere, Lubembe and Bugombe primary schools where closed because there essential materials like classrooms and toilets had been flooded with water and most of the roads hae become impassable so pupils cannot attend to classes News - Latest News Thu, 22 Apr 2010 01:00:00 +0100 http://www.ugee.com/200911152724/Latest-News/Soccer-World-Cup-in-Uganda.html There was excitement in Uganda on the arrival of the world cup trophy. President Museveni lifted the fotbal world cup at State house Entebbe on the cups tour of Uganda, on its way to South Africa. The President , while unveiling the cup, emphasized what the trophy symbolised especially to the Kids in Uganda. He was addressing several football diginataries... News - Latest News Sun, 15 Nov 2009 01:00:00 +0100 http://www.ugee.com/200909302707/Latest-News/Uganda-Internet-prices-to-tumble-downwards.html The cost of browsing the internet for most last-mile consumers of Uganda Telecom’s data services will fall with an increase in the number of customers not only with the arrival of the Seacom submarine cable, Daily Monitor has established. News - Latest News Wed, 30 Sep 2009 22:44:37 +0100 http://www.ugee.com/200909252702/Latest-News/New-Sleeping-Sickness-Drug-unveiled-in-Kampala.html A new sleeping sickness drug has been introduced, a research group announced in Kampala on Tuesday. Nifurtimox-Eflornithine Combination Therapy is the first new medicine in 25 years against a disease that affects 60 million people in sub-Saharan Africa, the Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi) group said in a statement. News - Latest News Fri, 25 Sep 2009 01:00:00 +0100 http://www.ugee.com/200909222699/Latest-News/Kampala-City-Council-KCC-warns-on-possible-Floods-to-come.html Kampala City residents have been warned over possible floods as the rains begin to intensfy, The town Clerk, Ruth Kijjambu has warned. Ruth confirmed that heavy rains have been predicted to last till december. News - Latest News Tue, 22 Sep 2009 01:00:00 +0100 http://www.ugee.com/200909212698/Latest-News/Uganda-attracting-the-highest-foreign-investment-in-Eastr-Africa.html Uganda has received the highest forein investment in East Africa and is currently the fastest growing country in the region, the United Nations survey has shown. The report by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTD) showed that Uganda’s FDI grew from $733million to $787 million between 2006 and 2008. News - Latest News Mon, 21 Sep 2009 01:00:00 +0100 http://www.ugee.com/200908252670/Latest-News/Michael-Jackson-s-death-Suspicious.html It has been reported that the Los Angeles County coroner has ruled Jackson's death a homicide. Captain John Kades, of the coroner's department, said he was not in a position to confirm or deny the report. News - Latest News Tue, 25 Aug 2009 00:23:32 +0100 http://www.ugee.com/200908162662/Latest-News/Bolt-smashes-100m-world-record-in-Berlin.html Jamaica's Usain Bolt shattered his own 100 metres world record to win the World Championship final in Berlin in a breathtaking 9.58 seconds. Bolt took a staggering 0.11 seconds off the 9.69 mark he set winning gold at the Beijing Olympics a year ago . In contrast to the Olympic final when he was able to coast over the line,... News - Latest News Sun, 16 Aug 2009 01:00:00 +0100 http://www.ugee.com/200908152661/Latest-News/MUK-to-admit-more-students-after-low-initial-take-up.html MAKERERE University has re-advertised 15 courses after it failed to admit the required number of private students. The courses are believed to be in the faculties of computing and information technology (ICT), forestry and nature conservation, veterinary medicine, science, arts and adult and continuing education. News - Latest News Sat, 15 Aug 2009 09:33:07 +0100 http://www.ugee.com/200908102656/Latest-News/Water-and-Juice-makers-on-mandatory-registration.html THE Uganda National Bureau of Standards (UNBS) has started mandatory registration of all makers of bottled water and juice. Meeting the manufacturers at Hotel Africana in Kampala, the standards body announced the introduction of a safety mark (S-mark) to appear on all products that meet minimum safety requirements. News - Latest News Mon, 10 Aug 2009 01:00:00 +0100 http://www.ugee.com/200908082653/Latest-News/Sexist-British-tourist-set-on-fire-in-Greece.html Iraklio - A Greek woman was scheduled to appear in court on the island of Crete on Friday after allegedly setting a British tourist on fire for sexual harassment. The incident occurred in the coastal resort of Malia, a popular destination for young British travellers that is also a hotspot for alcohol-fuelled antics. News - Latest News Sat, 08 Aug 2009 00:53:19 +0100 http://www.ugee.com/200907242639/Latest-News/Bank-sets-up-and-disappears-overnight-with-customers-money.html Malaba, Uganda: Scammers have targeted a town on the Uganda-Kenya border with an elaborate fraud - setting up a fake bank and taking deposits, before fleeing. The bank opened an office in Malaba town, advertised on radio and took $100,000 in deposits. But when investors turned up to reclaim their money, all they found was a note saying: Sorry... News - Latest News Fri, 24 Jul 2009 01:00:00 +0100 http://www.ugee.com/200907232638/Latest-News/Ugandan-Domestic-League-s-most-expensive-player.html Though his transfer fee is tiny when compared to the astronomical amounts paid in Europe, the striker has nonetheless set a record in the local Ugandan Super League transfers may be a world apart from the multi-million pound transfers of the likes of Cristiano Ronaldo and Kaka with the figures clubs like Real Madrid are splashing around, but some Ugandan... News - Latest News Thu, 23 Jul 2009 01:00:00 +0100 http://www.ugee.com/200907222637/Latest-News/Lufthansa-Airlines-back-in-Uganda-since-the-70s.html KAMPALA, Uganda The Ugandan Civil Aviation Authority has granted permission to Brussels Airlines to add a Lufthansa code-share flight number to their own for the four times a week service between Brussels and Entebbe. This will, other than for some one off occasional cargo flights in the past, be the first scheduled Lufthansa flight number to Entebbe since the airline... News - Latest News Wed, 22 Jul 2009 01:00:00 +0100 http://www.ugee.com/200907212636/Latest-News/ARV-treatment-found-to-protect-against-malaria-in-Uganda.html Using antiretroviral (ARV) therapy to restore the immune system may substantially reduce the risk of malaria in countries where both HIV and malaria are endemic, according to new data presented Tuesday, July 21, at the Fifth International AIDS Society (IAS) Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention in Cape Town. News - Latest News Tue, 21 Jul 2009 01:00:00 +0100 http://www.ugee.com/200907182634/Latest-News/World-s-oldest-man-Dead.html London - The world's oldest man Henry Allingham has died at the age of 113. St Dunstan's care home in Ovingdean, near Brighton England. Allingham died early Saturday. He was one of only two surviving World War I veterans in Britain and had been the world's oldest man since June 19. News - Latest News Sun, 19 Jul 2009 01:00:00 +0100 http://www.ugee.com/200907182633/Latest-News/Nelson-Mandela-at-91-inspires-the-world.html Johannesburg - World leaders, civilians and celebrities alike took time off their busy schedules on Saturday to pay tribute to the father of the South African nation on his 91st birthday. News - Latest News Sat, 18 Jul 2009 18:07:27 +0100 http://www.ugee.com/200907152630/Latest-News/Mobutu-s-5.1m-dolar-assets-to-be-returned-tgo-family.html Geneva - A Swiss court ruled on Tuesday that assets of the late dictator Mobutu Sese Seko frozen in Switzerland and worth €5.1m must be returned to his family. News - Latest News Wed, 15 Jul 2009 01:00:00 +0100 http://www.ugee.com/200907142629/Latest-News/Kenya-siezes-Poached-ivory-and-rhino-horn.html Nairobi - Kenya seized more than 300kg of illegal ivory and black rhinoceros horn on a cargo plane headed to Asia on Tuesday, wildlife officials said. The contraband was hidden in wooden boxes shaped like coffins. News - Latest News Tue, 14 Jul 2009 21:45:59 +0100 http://www.ugee.com/200907062621/Latest-News/The-long-awaited-Telecom-fibre-optic-cable-arrives-in-Kampala.html KENYA Data Networks (KDN) and its Ugandan subsidiary, Infocom, have launched an estimated 1,500km fibre optic cable linking Kampala, Nairobi and Mombasa. The laying of the sh1.5b fibre cable from Mombasa to Kampala brings closer the fast internet that Uganda and indeed the region has yearned for. The international undersea cables being laid in the Indian Ocean is estimated to... News - Latest News Mon, 06 Jul 2009 01:00:00 +0100 http://www.ugee.com/Bizarre/Drunken-priest-blames-Holy-Wine.html Rome - An Italian priest caught driving over the alcohol limit pleaded to police that it was only because of the Holy Wine he had drunk as part of the mass, Ansa news agency reported on Saturday. Bizarre - Bizarre Sun, 28 Jun 2009 10:50:19 +0100 http://www.ugee.com/200906272612/Latest-News/LRA-the-Ugandan-rebels-have-abducted-1200-in-Congo.html Geneva - Ugandan rebels this year have killed around 1 200 Congolese civilians and abducted 1 500, mostly children, in a remote region of northeast Congo, a UN official said on Friday. News - Latest News Sat, 27 Jun 2009 22:34:28 +0100 http://www.ugee.com/200906252610/Latest-News/Death-of-Micheal-Jackson-shocks-the-world.html The world is in total shock at the death of pop legend Micheal Jackson. According to TMZ website, Micheal Jackson had had a heart attack and that paramedics who had been called out to his Holmby Hills home had been unable to revive him, despite administering CPR. News - Latest News Thu, 25 Jun 2009 23:59:42 +0100 http://www.ugee.com/200906252609/Latest-News/Micheal-Jackson-The-Pop-king-dead.html Micheal Jackson the Pop King has died in a Los Angeles Hospital. Micheal the Pop Star at the age of 50 was rushed to hospital after suffering cardiac arrest. L.A Times has reported. Further news about the details of his death is unfolding News - Latest News Thu, 25 Jun 2009 23:35:09 +0100 http://www.ugee.com/200906252608/Latest-News/Microsoft-to-go-hard-on-Ugandan-software-pirates.html Software giant Microsoft, is hiring a firm of Solicitors to go after software pirates in the country. Kampala Associated Advocates have been appointed to prosecute anyone caught downloading or using illegal software in Uganda. News - Latest News Thu, 25 Jun 2009 00:06:58 +0100 http://www.ugee.com/200906232607/Latest-News/Another-Uganda-school-gutted-by-fire.html Hilton High school in Mukon domitories were on monday night guttedby fire destroying student’s property worth millions of shillings. Paul Wadega, the head teacher, said fire started at 9:00pm fire started in Mexico dormitory that housed 30 Senior Five students before spreading to the USA and Canada dormitories. News - Latest News Tue, 23 Jun 2009 22:52:39 +0100 http://www.ugee.com/200906222606/Latest-News/Dignified-exit-for-Robert-Mugabe.html London - Zimbabwe Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai while on a visit to London said on Tuesday he had formed a working relationship with Robert Mugabe and saw scope for the long-serving president eventually to make a dignified exit from power. News - Latest News Mon, 22 Jun 2009 01:00:00 +0100 http://www.ugee.com/200906202605/Latest-News/Iranians-in-Political-Turmoil.html Tehran - Opposition leader Mirhossein Mousavi said he was ready for martyrdom , according to an ally, in leading protests that have shaken the Islamic republic and brought warnings of bloodshed from Iran's supreme leader, whose authority and wisdom is now beginning to be questioned. News - Latest News Sat, 20 Jun 2009 01:00:00 +0100 http://www.ugee.com/200906192604/Latest-News/When-religion-becomes-a-business-Uganda-s-Pastor-Robert-Kayanja.html The announcement by Pastor Robert Kayanja of the Miracle Center that those interested in attending Evangelist Benny Hinn’s ‘Fire Conference’ must first of all part with 50$ (Ush 120,000) has created controvercy as to whether the so called pastors of today are turning religion into commercial business enterprises. News - Latest News Fri, 19 Jun 2009 01:00:00 +0100 http://www.ugee.com/200906182603/Latest-News/Kampala-s-Nakawa-Naguru-tenants-to-benefit-from-cheap-housing.html THE Government has agreed to provide cheap houses for the 500 tenants of the Naguru-Nakawa Housing Estate, who were forced to sell their interest . Adolf Mwesige the minister for local Government said although the tenants sold their interests, it was government’s responsibility to provide accommodation to its citizens. News - Latest News Thu, 18 Jun 2009 23:23:22 +0100 http://www.ugee.com/200906162601/Latest-News/Gabon-to-pay-last-respects-to-its-late-leader-Omar-Bongo.html Lebreville - Gabon was set to pay its final respects on Tuesday to Omar Bongo Ondimba, with a state funeral for the former president who ruled the oil-rich equatorial African country for 41 years. Bongo came to power in 1967 with French support and ruled over a state that grew rich on abundant oil, while most of the 1.5 million... News - Latest News Tue, 16 Jun 2009 01:00:00 +0100 http://www.ugee.com/200906142599/Latest-News/Uganda-Govt-to-embark-on-a-100000-jobs-creation.html The Uganda Govt is to embark on an ambitious project to create 100,000 jobs mainly in the road and building construction this financial year. This was announced by finance minister Syda Bbumba News - Latest News Sun, 14 Jun 2009 01:00:00 +0100 http://www.ugee.com/200906132598/Latest-News/Nakaseke-District-accounts-frozen-for-non-payment-of-tax.html The Uganda Revenue Authority has frozen the main accounts of Nakaseke district Council for non payment of PAYE . According to a letter from the URA Domestic Taxes Department manager, Julie Kiwanuka Njuba, the debt was discovered after a comprehensive audit covering the period between 2005 and 2008. News - Latest News Sat, 13 Jun 2009 01:00:00 +0100 http://www.ugee.com/200906082592/Latest-News/Uganda-s-Oil-Needs-to-remain-Companies-Priority-Tullor-Oil.html KAMPALA, Uganda, May 04, 2009 (Dow Jones Commodities News via Comtex) -- Brian Glover, the country manager of U.K.-based Tullow Oil PLC (TUW.LY), said the needs of Uganda as a country remain the company's top priority. News - Latest News Mon, 08 Jun 2009 01:00:00 +0100 http://www.ugee.com/200906072591/Latest-News/LRA-rebels-kidnap-more-than-200-congolese-civilians.html The LRA, led by Joseph Kony have kidnaspped more than 200 congolese civilians about 200km from the border with the Central African Republic. Radio Okapi has reported in northern Congo. News - Latest News Sun, 07 Jun 2009 17:38:55 +0100 http://www.ugee.com/200905312584/Latest-News/Sudan-s-former-president-dead.html Khartoum - Former Sudanese president Jaafar Nimeiri, who took power in a coup in 1969 and brought Islamic rule to Sudan, died on Saturday after a period of illness, government officials said. He was 79-years-old. News - Latest News Sun, 31 May 2009 01:00:00 +0100 http://www.ugee.com/200905282581/Latest-News/Uganda-increases-market-share-of-tourism.html UGANDA last year collected revenue amounting to $450m (about sh1trillion) from tourism, according to Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA) statistics. News - Latest News Thu, 28 May 2009 01:00:00 +0100 http://www.ugee.com/200905292582/Latest-News/May-inflation-rate-in-Uganda-slows-to-12.4-percent.html Uganda's annual inflation rate slowed to 12.4% in May from 13.4% the previous month, the Uganda Bureau of Statistics has said. Food prices have remained high despite headline inflation rate slowing. News - Latest News Fri, 29 May 2009 01:00:00 +0100 http://www.ugee.com/200905302583/Latest-News/Britain-has-got-talent-gets-new-winner.html Susan Boyle has been beaten to number two by Diversity in the most heavily contested Britain has got talent. Diversity put on an outstanding performance to take the top prize of 100,000 pounds and the chance to perform for the Queen in the Royal varietry performance. News - Latest News Sat, 30 May 2009 22:02:23 +0100 http://www.ugee.com/200905282580/Latest-News/Kenyan-men-start-30-day-sex-boycot.html KENYAN men yesterday started a 30 day sex boycot to protest against abuse of their conjugal rights by women. Aendeleo ya Wanaume (The Men’s Organisation) is organising the boycot said to have started last night, They have said that more men are expected to endorse the countrywide boycot. News - Latest News Thu, 28 May 2009 00:14:01 +0100 http://www.ugee.com/200905272579/Latest-News/Women-activists-seek-abolition-of-bride-price-in-Uganda.html Women activists in uganda are seeking the abolition of bride price saying that it leads to domestic violence. The rights campaigners under their umbrella organisation, the Uganda Women’s Network (UWONET), said the practice should be outlawed. News - Latest News Tue, 26 May 2009 20:57:41 +0100 http://www.ugee.com/200905252578/Latest-News/Burundi-s-court-uphold-Jail-term-for-former-head-of-the-Presidential-party.html Bujumbura - Burundi's Supreme Court upheld a 13-year jail term against a former head of the presidential party accused of plotting against the state, court officials said Tuesday. News - Latest News Mon, 25 May 2009 01:00:00 +0100