Daily Monitor
Several missing as boilers in Jinja wood factory burst into flames
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- Several missing as boilers in Jinja wood factory burst into flames
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- 2:58
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
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- Several workers are missing at Nile Plywoods (U) Ltd factory in Jinja, a manufacturer of wooden-based panels and wood-related products in Uganda, after one of the boilers burst into flames.
The police fire brigade and other firefighters are trying to contain the raging fire that has spread in the boiler section.
Mr Nicholas Sunday, Kiira regional fire officer, says the cause of the Thursday afternoon is still a subject of the police inquest.
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- I did it! Byakagaba owns up crackdown on Bobi Wine supporters in Mbarara
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- 5:40
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
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- The Inspector General of Police Abas Byakagaba reveals that he authorised the arrest of supporters of National Unity Platform (NUP) presidential flag bearer Robert Kyagulanyi, better known by stage name Bobi Wine.
Addressing journalists on Monday at Uganda Police Force headquarters in Naguru, a Kampala suburb, IGP Byakagaba discloses that the individuals that law enforcement agencies violently arrested on November 7, 2025, had been under surveillance for alleged breaches of electoral laws and guidelines in different parts of Uganda.
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- Hundreds of NUP supporters welcome Bobi Wine to Kawempe
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- 4:30
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
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- The National Unity Platform (NUP) presidential candidate, Mr Robert Kyagulanyi, Bobi Wine welcomed by hundreds of supporters at Kawempe Growers playing ground as he starts his campaign activities in Kawempe South, Kampala.
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- Minister Jeje Odongo accuses supporters of NRM candidate of defacing his campaign posters, violence
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- 2:24
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
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- Foreign Affairs Minister, Gen (rtd) Jeje Odongo, who is fighting to retain his parliamentary seat for Orungo County in Amuria District, as an independent candidate, has decried the defacing of his campaign posters by alleged supporters of his rival, Ms Teddy Anyuk, who is the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) party flagbearer. He says it had escalated into a series of violent confrontations between supporters of rival camps.
"People were now saying 'we must defend ourselves' and they were running into their houses to bring out pangas"
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📹John Ken Odele
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- Kampala salesman remanded to prison over defrauding Lucy Nakyobe Shs218 million. ⁹
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- 1:46
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
- Description
- A 53-year-old salesman was on Friday charged before the Buganda Road Chief Magistrate’s Court over allegedly defrauding a senior government official of Shs218 million under the guise of selling her land in Buikwe District.
According to the charge sheet, Kaddu and others, still at large, between 2018 and 2025 at Crested Towers in Kampala, allegedly obtained Shs218 million from Lucy Nakyobe, the Head of Public Service and Secretary to the Cabinet, by falsely claiming they were selling her 23 acres of land in Lugazi, Buikwe District.
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📹Juliet Kigongo
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- Kampala floods after downpour
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- 5:25
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
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- Shops, roads flooded in Uganda's capital, Kampala, following Wednesday afternoon downpour.
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- Ailing NUP's Saudah Madaada evacuated from court to Mulago hospital
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- 4:57
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
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- One of the remanded NUP supporters, Saudah Madaada, has been evacuated to hospital after her health condition deteriorated while in the holding cells of Chief Magistrate's Court in Kanyanya, Kawempe Division, Kampala where they appeared for bail application. Ms Madaada and several other opposition party supporters have been on remand for months following their arrest for staging a birthday parade for the party president, Mr Robert Kyagulanyi, in February 2025.
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- Tororo-Busia road project affected persons protest delayed compensation
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- 1:08
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
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- Project Affected Persons (PAPS) in Busia District have blocked Busia -Tororo Road Works, protesting delayed compensation.
The protesters say they were evaluated in 2021 by UNRA and told to open bank accounts, but since then, they are yet to get their compensation after the government evicted them from part of their land for the road works.
The victims are from the villages of Kateke, Amagoro, Okame Amagoro, Kareu, Okame Abochet, Abochet A and B, Agoriata and Akipeneti all in Buteba Sub-county, Busia District.
The protest paralyzed tarmacking works for hours , forcing the police and ministry of works officials to intervene.
📹David Awori.
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- Minister Musa Ecweru withdraws from Amuria MP race
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- 1:41
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
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- State Minister for Works, Mr Musa Francis Ecweru, has formally withdrawn from the Amuria County parliamentary contest, ending weeks of political tension and speculation in the district.
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- Ssenyonyi denies getting service award, claims Mpuuga and other commissioners bagged Shs400m each
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- 2:18
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
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- "I have been informed that some weeks back, the 4 commissioners of Parliament ( Solomon Silwany, Hon Esther Afoyochan, Prossy Akampulira Mbabazi & Mathias Mpuuga) received a second service award of 400m shs each, which was channeled through the Parliamentary SACCO so as to avoid having a clear paper trail. This money, apparently, was intended to see them through the campaign season"- Joel Ssenyonyi
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- KCCA boss inspects water-flooded shops in Kampala
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- 1:40
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
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- "Our technical team is on ground to assess the extent of the damage and thereafter will submit its report to the relevant authorities which will inform our next step," says KCCA executive director, Hajjat Sharifah Buzek after leading a team from the Authority to inspect shops that were flooded following Friday morning downpour.
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📹Ibrahim Kavuma
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- Uganda receives 60,000 voter verification machines ahead of 2026 polls
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- 3:07
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
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- Uganda's Electoral Commission last night received a consignment of 60,000 biometric verification machines that will be used in the 2026 General Election. The EC chairperson, Justice Simon Byabakama, says the machines will be used to verify voters to avoid ballot stuffing, which has bedevilled previous elections.
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- What Gen Muntu will do for Kalangala people if voted into power
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- 3:32
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
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- The Alliance for National Transformation (ANT) presidential candidate, Maj Gen (rtd) Gregory Mugisha Muntu, today held a series of rallies in the Ssese Islands, Kalangala District, where he met with residents as he canvassed for votes ahead of the 2026 General Election.
Mr Muntu began his tour in Bugoma, located in Mugoye Sub-county, where he assured locals of his commitment to improving water transport and eradicating the deep-rooted corruption affecting the nation.
During his visit, he also highlighted plans to enhance both education and healthcare services in the region.
General Muntu strongly condemned widespread corruption, as well as armed personnel who abuse their authority by violating citizens' rights.
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- Dropped IGG Beti Kamya's next move
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- 1:54
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
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- “There is no job that doesn't have challenges. Even the job of the IGG has many challenges, but I think the biggest challenge is being under-resourced. That institution needs to be properly resourced,” said Beti Kamya, the former IGG, after her thanksgiving prayer service at Mackay Church of Uganda.
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- Kampala paralysed as revellers throng streets to mark city carnival after seven-year hiatus
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- 4:40
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
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- Business and traffic paralysed in Kampala as KCCA executive director, Sharifah Buzeki, leads a procession from Buganda Road to Kololo Independence Ground as part of the city carnival activities. The annual festival returned on Sunday after a seven-year hiatus.
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- TECH WAVE: Cloud computing
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- 1:13
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- Cloud computing is the delivery of computing services—such as servers, storage, databases, networking, software, and analytics—over the internet (“the cloud”). It allows users and businesses to access and store data, run applications, and manage resources without needing physical hardware or infrastructure on-site. This model offers flexibility, scalability, and cost-efficiency, making it ideal for everything from small startups to large enterprises.
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- How KOICA Projects Transformed Quality Health Care Services in Buyende
- Runtime
- 2:38
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
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- Ep 6 #Election26
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- 9:28
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
- Description
- In Episode 6 of #Election26, NMG journalists continue to share their perspectives and lessons in the different elections they have covered so far.
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- #Election26 - Episode4
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- 11:05
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
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- In Episode 4 of #Election26, NMG journalist Derrick Wandera continues to share his firsthand recollections from the Jinja, Bugiri, and Arua by-elections — the drama and the surprises.
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- Election 26- Ep 2
- Runtime
- 8:04
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
- Description
- In Episode 2 of #Election26, NMG journalist Jeff Twesigye recounts how his colleagues went missing and how he narrowly escaped the violence that broke out during the chaotic 2018 Arua Municipality by-election. #MonitorUpdates
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- Election 26- Ep 1
- Runtime
- 7:29
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
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- Election 26- Episode 1: In mid-August 2018, Independent candidate Kassiano Wadri and his main rival, the NRM’s Nusura Tiperu, were locked in a hot contest for the Arua Municipality seat, to replace the late Ibrahim Abiriga, who had been gunned down in Kampala, leaving the Arua Parliamentary seat vacant. At the tail end of the electoral campaigns, which drew the backing of President Yoweri Museveni for the ruling NRM party and Robert Kyagulanyi of the People Power movement, chaos broke out in Arua over the alleged stoning of the Presidential convoy. The events that unfolded that fateful evening sent aftershocks that reverberated for a long time. Join our team of journalists who were there and now bring you a recollection of those events and how they have impacted news coverage since.
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- Stop provoking security operatives, Bishop Odoki tells journalists, Opposition
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- 3:09
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- Rt Rev Sabino Ochan Odoki, the Bishop of Arua Catholic Diocese, suggests that the brutality meted out on journalists and opposition politicians by security operatives is a result of provocation.
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- Katanga murder: Defence lawyer grills prosecution witness
- Runtime
- 2:33
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
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- Nakivubo stadium reopened in style
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- 5:36
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Nakivubo war memorial stadium was reopened on June 1, 2024 amid fireworks and performances from several musicians in Uganda after nearly seven years of rehabilitation by businessman Hamis Kiggundu
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- Mathias Mpuuga should be removed, he has no integrity- Minister Namuganza
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- 11:54
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- According to State Minister for Housing, Ms Persis Namuganza, if there was a referendum about Parliament, Ugandans would vote to abolish the legislative body which has become “a shame and an embarrassment” to all citizens
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- Section of Soroti leaders threaten to block Bobi Wine over UK sanctions against Speaker Among
- Runtime
- 5:06
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- A section of community leaders in Soroti City, Eastern Uganda have threatened to walk to Kampala and also block National Unity Platform (NUP) president Robert Kyagulanyi, alias Bobi Wine from stepping in Teso sub region over UK sanctions against Speaker Anita Among.
On April 30, Britain announced its first-ever corruption-related sanctions against Uganda, targeting Ms Among, Ms Mary Goretti Kitutu, and Ms Agness Nandutu, both former ministers responsible for the restive mineral-rich Karamoja region. The sanctions consist of travel bans and asset freezes.
Ms Kitutu and Ms Nandutu allegedly stole a significant quantity of iron sheets from a government-funded housing initiative intended to aid vulnerable communities in Karamoja. Among was said to have benefitted from the stolen materials.
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- Fr Kasule slams politicians who betray supporters over 'small bribes'
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- 0:53
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- WATCH: Father Henry Kasule, the priest for Kyanukuzi parish, Lwengo District slammed politicians who betray their followers over "small bribes."
"Many people change. Politicians have let most of us down. They are so unreliable. They change over small amounts of money without minding about their followers. Please have some sense of shame. What's your value ?" Fr Kasule said during the burial ceremony of Pascal Ssekasamba, where Bobi Wine, Mathias Mpuuga, Abed Bwanika, and other politicians were in attendance to pay their respects in Masaka on May 18, 2024.
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🎥 Gertrude Mutyaba
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- Bobi Wine Vs Abed Bwanika, Mathias Mpuuga
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- 15:19
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- National Unity Platform (NUP) President Robert Kyagulanyi, alias Bobi Wine versus Kimaanya-Kabonera Division MP, Dr Abed Bwanika and Nyendo/Mukungwe MP Mathias Mpuuga
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- MP Mwijukye attacked by stick-wielding goons, injured over church land fight
- Runtime
- 2:30
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
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- Security operatives raid MP Derrick Nyeko's bedroom, wife says
- Runtime
- 3:11
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- NUP's Makindye East MP Derrick Nyeko's wife, Ruth Twagira Kirabo says police and the army raided her bedroom today without a clear explanation of their motive.
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- Court martials are scare crows to Uganda's freedoms- MP Ssegona
- Runtime
- 4:03
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- "The Courts martial exist illegally. They do not fit anywhere within the constitutional framework of this country and therefore, have no mandate or jurisdiction to continue trying civilians and even soldiers in their establishments which they call courts. They are not courts of law. They are just ad-hoc establishments put in place as a scarecrow against freedoms. If you look at the General Court Martial it has no other business apart from trying politicians or people who express political dissent in this country (Uganda). They are just an extension of Museveni rule and NRM's coercive arm...Gen Museveni just uses it to silence political dissent"- lawyer Medard Lubega Sseggona who is representing former Nakawa Municipality MP, Michael Kabaziguruka, a respondent in a Supreme Court case filed by the Attorney General challenging the Constitutional Court judgment in which the army court was ordered to stop trying civilians on grounds that it was illegal.
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- Museveni, US ambassador discuss regional security
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- 0:30
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- President Museveni on Thursday met with the United States of America (USA) Ambassador to Uganda, William W Popp at State House-Entebbe to discuss his press team described as “various critical matters”, including the forthcoming population census, regional peace and stability, and socio- economic development.
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- UBOS enumerators tear appointment letters in protest ahead of national census
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- 3:58
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- WATCH: Enumerators in Katabi town council, Wakiso District have protested saying they will not collect census data tomorrow, citing lack of facilitation and field equipment, including work IDs and jackets. They claim they were promised Shs50,000 for daily work, but their appointment letters say that the amount is for the 10 days they will be deployed to collect data.
Some of them were seen tearing their appointment letters in protest.
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- Creating hope for migrant workers
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- 3:37
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Jane’s* uncle and mother knocked at every door for months to rescue her return from Saudi Arabia. The girl that had left for work was no longer reachable and her family feared for the worst.
However, despite securing several letters from the state, there was no Jane*. It was then that they were connected to Mr Charles Maina, whom they were told could be of help to them. It was later discovered that her phone had been confiscated by her boss.
When Mr Maina finally traced her, Jane’s* boss would be heard banging at the bathroom door she had hidden in from his beatings. A few minutes later, the connection was cut but not before Jane* told them that there was no hope of getting her home as her location was remote.
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- Man beaten into comma for stabbing lover downtown Kampala
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- 2:14
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Security operatives evacuate an injured man, only identified as Robert Oyot, after he was attacked by a mob for allegedly stabbing his lover at Mini Price shopping centre, downtown Kampala on April 18, 2024. The woman was the first to be evacuated by a military patrol truck to hospital with a stab wound on the neck after Oyot's alleged attack which which is now a subject of police inquiries.
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- Kampala arcades, shops flooded after downpour
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- 3:59
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- Traders operating from Qualicel Bus Terminal along Nakivubo Mews, downtown Kampala scoop out water that entered the building after a Thursday morning downpour that left shops flooded amid an ongoing traders' sit-down strike against unfair taxes and Electronic Fiscal Receipting and Invoicing Solution (EFRIS)
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- Driver crashed to death by concrete mixer truck
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- 1:25
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- Traffic officers guide motorists at Nkumba University traffic lights along the Entebbe - Kampala expressway after the driver of a cement mixer truck UAN 836D lost control and rammed into the barriers in the middle of the road before falling onto a Mitsubishi RVR UBQ 371P on April 17, 2024.
Eyewitness said there was one occupant in the
Mitsubishi who is presumed dead and his body is still trapped in the wreckage.
The driver of the Cement truck is said to have moved out of the car and went to a nearby medical facility for treatment.
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- Besigye pays last respects to Sarah Eperu
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- 8:35
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Former FDC president, Dr Kizza Besigye on Wednesday paid his last respects to the deceased former party press secretary and veteran activist Sarah Eperu at her home on Kireka/Namugongo road on April 10, 2024.
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🎥 Isaac Kasamani
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- Senegal's newly elected President Bassirou Diomaye Faye swears in
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- 4:56
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- Senegal's Newly elected President Bassirou Diomaye Faye addresses the audience after he took the oath of office as president during the inauguration ceremony in Dakar, Senegal April 2, 2024. VIDEO/REUTERS
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- Police to sell fixed wing aircraft over lack of tarmacked runways
- Runtime
- 9:44
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- Police in Uganda are to sell their fixed wing aircraft after it failed to provide effective services in Uganda due to lack of tarmacked runways in many parts of the country.
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- TikToker detained over trolling Kabaka faces several criminal charges
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- 3:23
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Police said Monday that they were transcribing over 50 videos allegedly recorded by an online troll who allegedly carried out a campaign of abuse against the Buganda king (Kabaka) Ronald Muwenda Mutebi and other kingdom officials.
Ibrahim Musana, a 27-year-old Ugandan TikToker, popularly known on social media as Pressure Pressure is in police detention following his arrest on February 17, 2024 on charges of defamation, promoting hate speech and incitement to violence, among others.
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- MP Nantaba rescued by SFC from irate land tenants
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- 1:06
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- Former State minister for Lands, Idah Nantaba and a landlord on Sunday evening survived being lynched by angry land tenants in Lugasa village, Kahonza Sub County in Kayunga District.
Ms Nantaba, who is also the Kayunga District Woman Member of Parliament had accompanied Rev Can Yusuf Turyomwe who claims to be the landlord of a 40-acre contentious piece of land in Lugasa village to meet his tenants.
Tempers flared before her SFC guards swung into action to save her.
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- I will not mortgage Uganda over loans- Minister Kasaija
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- 1:21
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- “Almost every Monday when Cabinet sits there are always new demands for supplementary budget. Now, I have learnt to politely keep quiet. Even when the President says Kasaija find money for this … I say yes, but I don’t do anything because there is no money and I will not borrow indefinitely,” Finance Minister Matia Kasaija said, noting that the issue of supplementary requests must be stopped.
Video by Collins Muhwezi
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- Families of missing Bobi Wine supporters petition court
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- 10:01
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- Family members of some of the missing Ugandans who were allegedly abducted by security operatives ahead of the 2021 general election have petitioned the High Court in Kampala seeking their unconditional release.
Represented by city lawyer, George Musisi, the distressed family members want court to declare their relatives’ continued detention without trial as a violation of their Constitutional right to liberty.
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- Bobi Wine escapes 'house arrest', emerges in Katwe
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- 0:27
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Supporters chant the name of National Unity Platform (NUP) president, Robert Kyagulanyi, alias Bobi Wine moments after he arrived in Katwe, Kampala following his escape from his home in Magere, Wakiso District where he had been put under house arrest since yesterday over a planned protest against bad roads in the country.
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- Ugandans go 'fishing' on city pothole-riddled roads
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- 1:55
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- "This is lake Nansana. We have potholes as big as fish ponds. I'm taking this fish to President @KagutaMuseveni to tell him that the roads are now full of fish."
Ugandans protest over pothole-riddled roads in Kampala and surrounding areas.
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- Don't make fun of my assassination attempt- Pastor Aloysius Bugingo
- Runtime
- 11:24
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- "No one should ever mock anyone in trouble because nobody is immune to trouble, danger or disaster. We should learn to empathize with those in vulnerable situations," city pastor Aloysius Bugingo after surviving an assassination attempt.
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- 'Deploy in western Uganda where there's ADF, not at NUP'
- Runtime
- 2:09
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- NUP leaders slam security as Police deploy at Kirowooza village in Masaka City where the party members are holding memorial prayers for former presidential candidate, Bobi Wine's private bodyguard, Frank Ssenteza who died after he was allegedly run over by a military truck during presidential campaigns.
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- Woman beats security to meet Museveni
- Runtime
- 2:09
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- ICYMI: President Museveni's guards intercept a woman as she attempted to force her way to where he (Museveni) was seated during the launch of 12 Saccos for the ghetto youths at Kololo ceremonial grounds in Kampala on December 20, 2023.
She was later allowed to meet the president who announced that he would inject Shs1.2 billion into the ghetto youths' Saccos.
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- Christmas: Stranded travellers brave long queues, rain to buses en route to up country
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- 5:09
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- Hundreds of people travelling to different parts of the country to celebrate Christmas are stranded at the Link bus terminal in Kisenyi, Kampala due to inadequate buses.
"I have been here waiting for the bus since 7am," one of the travellers told this publication at 11:30am.
At YY Coaches terminal in Kampala, travelers endured heavy downpour as they queued to book bus tickets.
