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Joined: January 22, 2026
Articles: 82

Politics

Bobi Wine’s guard detail arrested, here we go again

Bobi Wine has called out the arrest of counter-terrorism officers who were assigned to protect him during the 2026 campaigns. The guys are reportedly being held at Railway Police Station on charges of disobeying orders and walking off the job.…

News Promax Uganda
March 11, 2026

Politics

Woman jailed after refusing to repay lover who funded her LDC studies

Western Uganda is buzzing over this one. Fortunate Kyarikunda, a law enforcement officer in Rubanda, got hauled off to civil prison because she wouldn’t pay back more than Shs14 million to her former partner Richard Tumwiine. He sponsored her entire…

News Promax Uganda
March 11, 2026

Politics

Iran’s New Supreme Leader Is Already a Marked Man

He inherited power in the middle of a war, with bombs still falling, and nobody has seen his face since. That is the strange beginning of Mojtaba Khamenei’s reign as the third Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran.…

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March 9, 2026

People

Prison Warder Shoots Four Dead, Disappears. Now There is a Shs10 Million Reward for His Capture

Two weeks passed and Warder Anguyo Moses was still nowhere to be found. On Monday, Uganda Prisons Service raised the stakes, announcing a Shs10 million reward for anyone who provides credible information leading to his arrest. Commissioner General of Prisons…

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March 9, 2026

Politics

Uganda Rejects UN Accusations Over South Sudan Bombings

Uganda’s government has pushed back sharply against a United Nations report accusing the Uganda People’s Defence Forces of taking part in aerial attacks that killed civilians in South Sudan. Henry Okello Oryem, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, dismissed the…

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March 9, 2026

Sports

Coach Mike Mutebi Goes Missing, Found Alive in Kisubi Plantation

For several hours on Sunday, a cloud of fear settled over Uganda’s football community. Mike Hillary Mutebi, one of the country’s most celebrated football coaches, had vanished. His family raised the alarm after the veteran tactician left his home in…

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March 9, 2026

Entertainment

Karole Kasita is Coming to Serena on May 29 and She is Not Coming to Play

If you have been to a Karole Kasita show before, you already know what is coming. The woman does not just perform. She takes over the room. And on Thursday, May 29, she is bringing that same energy to one…

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March 8, 2026

People

Kagame and Tshisekedi Skip EAC Summit, What Their Absence Really Means and M7 takes wheel as chair again

When the 25th East African Community Summit opened in Arusha, Tanzania on Friday, two chairs that were supposed to be occupied were conspicuously empty. Rwanda’s Paul Kagame and the DRC’s Félix Tshisekedi both skipped the meeting, and while the official…

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March 8, 2026

People

VP Alupo steps in for women’s Celebrations for Museveni Who is away in Arusha

This International Women’s Day fell on a Sunday, March 8, and President Museveni was not in Kampala to mark it. He had already travelled to Arusha, Tanzania earlier in the week for the EAC summit, where Uganda took over the…

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March 8, 2026

People

Someone Secretly Pulled Down Part of Owino Market at Night, And Police Have Arrested Two People

Traders who arrived at St. Balikudembe Market on Sunday morning found something they were not expecting. A section of the market had been brought down overnight, reduced to rubble, and nobody at the market had been told it was going…

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March 8, 2026