Thirty taxi drivers in Kampala and Entebbe have been arrested for disrupting taxi operations on the first day of the strike which is expected to last three days.
Toterebuka Bamwenda, Forum for Democratic Change deputy spokesperson says the lack of a transport policy in the country is resulting into exploitation being manifested in the road transport countrywide.
At least twenty people were this morning seriously injured when a vehicle they were traveling in lost control and overturned along Mbale –Butaleja road, about 54km from Mbale town.
At least twelve people have been arrested by the police in Mukono district after they attempted to block the Kampala-Mbale highway in today’s Taxi drivers.
Caleb Alaka, the lawyer representing former LRA rebel commander, Thomas Kwoyelo, has demanded that government should pronounce itself on an earlier application for amnesty by the war crimes suspect.
The much anticipated trial of Thomas Kowyelo, the former director of operations in the Lord’s Resistance Army rebel group kicked off today before the War Crimes Division of the High court in Gulu. Kwoyelo was driven to the court amidst tight security by heavily armed police officers.
Religious leaders under the umbrella of Inter-Religious Council of Uganda have today called on Ugandans to exercise forgiveness as the country held ceremonies to commemorate the 86 lives lost in the July 11, 2010 terrorist bombings in Kampala.
The expansion of Hoima Regional referral hospital still hangs in balance due to unresolved land disputes. The ministry of health last year unveiled a plan to have a number of referral hospitals across the country refurbished and expanded, Hoima inclusive.
Four students of Janan Luwum Memorial School are remanded in Kitgum government prison over violent strike. Twenty eight others are serving an indefinite suspension after the school accused them of masterminding the violent strike two weeks ago.
Emotions ran high at Kyandondo Rugby Club in Kampala as relatives and friends gathered to pray for the 86 people, who died during the July 11, 2010 terror attacks.
The High Court in Tororo has this morning dismissed with costs the election petition filed by the former ICT Minister Aggrey Awori against Kevina Taaka, the Busia Municipality Member of Parliament due to lack of sufficient evidence.
Jinja residents on Sunday threw stones at a late-arriving fire brigade truck, after fire broke out in Masese and destroyed property worth millions of shillings.
Market vendors in Kamuli Town Council are crying foul over increased cases of theft of their property and merchandise. The vendors, who were recently relocated to the taxi park to pave way for the redevelopment of their market, have accused the town council of failing to provide enough security for their merchandise at the new place location.
