Nabbanja said the resettlement programme would be implemented in phases, with priority given to households facing the greatest danger, particularly as Uganda prepares for anticipated heavy rains.
The judge declared the seat of the directly elected Member of Parliament for Gomba East County, Gomba district, vacant and ordered the Electoral Commission to organise a new election.
Speaking as the chief guest at Kikuube District's celebration of the belated International Youth Day at Sir Tito Winyi Primary School on October 22, Ntagali urged young people to use their energy and time productively.
The suspects, comprising 16 men and one woman, who was reportedly with a baby, were arrested on Thursday, October 22, 2026, following intelligence that a group of youths routinely smoked opium behind a building opposite Atimakica Guest House.
At least 10 people have been rescued and taken to Entebbe and Kisubi hospital, according to police.
Ayebare wanted Twinomujuni removed from Parliament, citing lack of academic qualifications and failure by the Electoral Commission (EC) to comply with electoral laws during the elections.
Mulire wants a review of the judgment in which Justice Kinobe dismissed his appeal against his denomination. Mulire said his denomination resulted into the election of Moses Magogo as the Budiope East MP.
A lecturer at Kampala International University, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said some students who had been expected to graduate in 2018 had still not completed their studies after losing tuition money through betting. “If you move around betting companies situated on this Gaba Road, you would wonder. Students cannot concentrate. They are always there betting,” the lecturer said, adding that a similar pattern has been registered in various universities across the country.
Sources who attended the Jinja meeting told New Vision that Prof. Ogenga Otuntu, who is a close ally of Gen. Caleb Akandwanaho, aka Salim Saleh, also presented a paper on democracy and power-sharing dialogue. “Prof. Ogenga’s paper addresses Uganda’s recurring political conflicts and proposes a new power-sharing framework to end the country’s deep-rooted cycle of sectarian politics,” a top party leader said.
Musamba announced the developments today (October 26), at the police headquarters in Naguru, Kampala, during the third joint press briefing on the security of the 2026 examinations, held under the theme, “Advancing Excellence in Assessment and Certification through Secure, Credible, Inclusive, and Innovative Processes.”
The project, implemented by the Ministry of Water and Environment and funded by the Government of Uganda, targets forest reserves bordering the River Nile to protect the catchment, prevent siltation and restore degraded areas. The focus is now on the 606-hectare Nile Bank Central Forest Reserve in Butagaya sub-county, Jinja district, after earlier work on Namavundu Central Forest Reserve.
There have been various cases reported over the years. Many have been crimes of passion; others, cases of revenge. Top Bar in Kampala witnessed a gun shootout in January. A cleaner was shot in the toilet. Edwin Nasasira was also shot in a popular hangout spot in Kirinya, Wakiso district, on March 22, 2025. In many more cases, they simply remain threats with phrases like, “Do you know who I am?” or “I can shoot all of you if …”
Atwine also cautioned people who facilitate illegal crossings, including those allegedly helping travellers conceal themselves in trucks transporting goods from the DR Congo into Uganda. “We are going to write to the Chief Justice; we are going to have instant courts,” Atwine said, warning that Uganda would no longer simply return offenders to their countries of origin.
“Having considered the law governing court-supervised vote recounts together with the learned chief magistrate’s findings as recorded in the certified proceedings, I find that the decision to proceed with the recount after it became apparent that the security and integrity of several ballot boxes and other essential electoral materials had been compromised amounted to non-compliance with the electoral law and was inconsistent with the safeguards,” Justice Namanya said.
Surviving the surgery marked the beginning of another difficult journey. Nalutaaya had to adjust to living with one lung. She says her heart shifted towards the right side of her chest after the damaged lung was removed. “You can even feel it from my right-hand side,” she says. The extensive surgical wound took months to heal. Surgeons had made a large incision from near her shoulder towards the ribs where the chest tubes had been inserted. She continued experiencing sharp pain across her upper body.
Anthropologists and historians have often placed the Batwa under the broad term “pygmies”, a word that carries a painful history. Although it was originally used to describe several short-statured forest communities in Central Africa, the word has also been used to mock and belittle them.
According to Rose Kabarangira, the joint-eating owner, the woman walked in like any other customer on October 22, ate, and then quietly disappeared without paying, leaving the infant on the bench. "I thought she had gone to the toilet. She never came back," sources quoted Kabarangira as having said.
Alex Nyende emerged the overall winner in the UPPA category with his documentary project, 'Where Do They Go?', which captured families displaced during the May 28, 2026, eviction in Kawaala, Kampala, as government moved to restore part of Lubigi wetland.
“Someone buys pesticides expensively, but the pests don't die when they spray them,” he said, before urging the Uganda National Bureau of Standards (UNBS), the Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries and other responsible agencies to strengthen controls at the points of entry into Uganda.