Healthy hibiscus tea bags launched
Female entrepreneur, Regina Nakayenga has launched hibiscus tea bags for health-conscious Ugandans. Until Nakayenga’s Rena Beverages Solutions started packaging the tea bags, the healthy plant full of Vitamin C, Iron and antioxidants could only be found in popular food markets, sometimes kept in unhygienic and inconvenient...
Museveni explains why security will continue closing roads when he’s moving
The president says closing roads is inevitable President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has said the reason his security closes roads when he is moving is the existential threat still posed by the rebels of the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF). Addressing the country on Friday evening, Museveni...
Jesuit starts female educationists scholarship at Makerere University
The Jesuit Refugee Service Uganda (JRS) has partnered with Makerere University’s School of Education to provide scholarships to female students. The scholarship starts this academic year with 28 beneficiaries for three years.
Liberia president’s long stay abroad criticized
Liberia President George Weah Liberian President George Weah’s long absence from the country has raised eyebrows and prompted criticism, leading one opposition figure to ask if the West African nation is running on “autopilot.” Weah went abroad at the end of October for a string...
How Katwe police commander was brutally attacked to near death by suspect
FILE photo Details have emerged about how Katwe Divisional operations commander, assistant superintendent of police (ASP) Julius Gwaivu, was hit by the suspect he’d already arrested to the extent of exposing part of his brain. A video showing ASP Gwaivu’s shattered head being attended to...
Regional forces mull next step after M23 decline ceasefire
The decision came in response to a defied ultimatum given to the M23 last week by leaders who had gathered in Luanda, Angola.
S. Sudan fails to pull its weight in EAC amid missed deadlines
South Sudan gained independence from Sudan in 2011 but plunged into a civil war three years later. Today, even at relative peace, it has been constantly on the brink of war.
Back to normalcy as guns go silent in Ethiopian conflict
On Thursday, Ethiopia’s Government Communication Service said a joint disarmament team, composed of Ethiopian government representatives and those of Tigray armed combatants, would be meeting in Shire town in Tigray to discuss a disarmament programme for the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF).
The sweet and sour of the Luanda summit on DRC and the M23 rebels
It was a heads of state summit’ communiqué which read as though it had been written by some bored Congolese populist on Twitter, living on welfare in Brussels who’s never set foot in eastern DR Congo.
Change habits or perish, Museveni tells youth on World Aids Day
Records from the Ministry of Health indicate that the increased infections in the country have been driven by multiple sexual partnerships as well as transactional sex, which the youth have been identified to be engaged in more.
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