KAMPALA, UGANDA: Lecturers in public universities have declared a strike over salary enhancement, barely a week after the art teachers in primary and secondary schools laid down their tools over the same. Through their umbrella, Forum for Academic Staff of Public Universities in Uganda (FASPU), the lecturers in a June 17…

University student slits his female colleague’s throat after she refused to marry him A university student was arrested for slitting the throat of a female colleague at Mansoura University after she rejected his marriage proposal, local media reported. Naiyera Ashraf, 21, a student at the Faculty of Arts, was slain by…

Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta on Wednesday called for the deployment of a regional force to restore security in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s violence-torn east, where heavy fighting has revived old animosities. The mineral-rich DRC is struggling to contain dozens of armed groups in the east of the vast nation…

Police in Bukedea District in eastern Uganda are investigating the cause of a road crash in which two buses collided killing three people and injuring 35 others.The crash happened at Kachumbala village along Mbale — Soroti highway in Bukedea district at around 9:40pm when an Isuzu bus belonging to Wanagon…

KAMPALA. Police have seized heroin worth Shs7.5 billion that was concealed in chocolate packets and arrested a Dutch national at Entebbe International Airport. It is the biggest single seizure of narcotic in Uganda.The suspect was detained on offences of illegal possession and trafficking of narcotic drugs.The Deputy spokesman of Kampala Metropolitan…

The World Health Organization said Tuesday it would hold an emergency meeting next week to determine whether to classify the global monkeypox outbreak as a public health emergency of international concern. The UN agency is also working to change the name of the disease, which was long confined to Western and…

A healthy 30-year-old woman was admitted to Mparo Health Centre in Rukiga District on Monday, June 6, to deliver her second child. Artificial induction of labour was started that night. However, when the healthcare team noticed that something had gone wrong the following day, they took her to the operating…

Elon Musk will speak to Twitter employees on Thursday for the first time since launching his $44bn (£36.2bn) bid for the company in April. The multi-billionaire Tesla boss is expected to take questions from Twitter’s workers at the meeting. Mr Musk has warned he may quit the deal if the firm fails…

KAMPALA, UGANDA: For the first time in years, no new taxes will be introduced in the next Financial Year 2022/23 as sectors such as security, health, and transport scoop major allocations. This was revealed by the Minister of Finance, Planning, and Economic Development Hon Matia Kasaija as he presented the Shs…