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Lack of funds delays opening of Masaka hospital maternity complex

Uganda, April 18 -- The management of Masaka Regional Referral Hospital has said the government has not released funds to pay for utilities and equip the multi-billion shilling Maternity and Child Com... Read More


Witch doctor, helper given life sentence for killing toddler

Uganda, April 17 -- Masaka High Court Judge Margaret Nakintu Katamba sentenced a witch doctor, Moses Makumbi, 77, and his helper, Denis Kabuye, 43, to life imprisonment for the brutal killing of a one... Read More


Masaka traders call off strike against EFRIS

Uganda, April 12 -- Masaka City traders have indefinitely suspended their strike against Uganda Revenue Authority's (URA) Electronic Fiscal Receipting and Invoicing Solution (EFRIS) system as they wai... Read More


Warm up for elective positions except presidency, Muslims urged

Uganda, April 11 -- Masaka City Resident Commissioner, Mr Ahmed Kateregga Musaazi has asked Muslims to start warming up and contest for all elective positions except that of the President, in the fort... Read More


Rakai school fire was act of arson, says govt analyst

Uganda, March 25 -- The first state witness in a Rakai District school fire that killed 10 students and left about 36 others injured has told court that the fire that gutted the institution's dormitor... Read More


Mpigi school fire was act of arson, says govt analyst

Uganda, March 25 -- The first state witness in a Rakai District school fire that killed 10 students and left about 36 others injured has told court that the fire that gutted the institution's dormitor... Read More


Police fail to trace suspected killers of crested cranes

Uganda, March 22 -- Police in Masaka are yet to arrest key suspects in the killing of 11 crested cranes in Lwengo District eight months ago. In July 2023, unknown people in two villages of Kikonge an... Read More


Court adjourns Rakai school fire case as witness fails to show up

Uganda, March 16 -- Masaka High Court has adjourned the case in which four people are accused of setting St. Bernard Secondary School on fire, after the first state witness skipped court. The case be... Read More


Masaka NRM leader confiscates party register

Uganda, March 14 -- National Resistance Movement (NRM) leader in Masaka City has confiscated the party register, jeopardizing the ongoing registration of new members. Ms Saudah Nalujja, a village cha... Read More


Prosecution presents evidence in Rakai school fire case

Uganda, March 8 -- Prosecution has tendered in evidence for use in the trial of four people accused of torching a dormitory at St Bernard's Secondary School, Mannya in Rakai District. On November 11,... Read More