Justine Naiga, a resident of Buruuli quarters, Nakasongola Town Council was on Monday clobbered to death when UPDF soldiers conducted a raid on illegal fishers in Nakasongola District. The UPDF Fisheries Protection Unit (FPU) on Monday conducted an operation against illegal fishing at Kyebisiire fish landing site in Lwampanga Sub …

It was a long and turbulent night for Makerere University students who were caught up in the midst of a night raid by military personnel who both assaulted them and damaged property in millions of shillings. Eye witnesses say heavily armed soldiers went about the university breaking doors and capturing …

Tension is building at Makerere University with a heavy military presence as the university struggles to contain a fluid situation of tuition strikes that rocked the campus the whole of Tuesday. The tense atmosphere has seen the university expel one of its most influential students, Siperia Mollie Saasiraabo for her …

Botswana’s former President Ian Khama has set up a heated race in Botswana’s elections. Botswana has gone to the polls to vote for a new president in a general election that observers see as one of the closest contests in the country’s history since independence in 1966. The BBC reports …

Facebook has set out extra measures for fighting the spread of disinformation at the next UK election. These include extending its partnership with fact checker Full Fact and improving the ad library in which political ads are archived. In addition, it announced separate plans for the 2020 US Presidential vote, including …

Jo Baker Jo Baker’s recent books have been metafictions: Longbourn, the story of the servants who are barely mentioned in Pride and Prejudice; and A Country Road, a Tree, following Samuel Beckett’s life in wartime France. Both are brave and clever novels finding new worlds in the shadows of the literary canon. The Body Lies has …

Nicki Minaj has announced that she’s married her partner Kenneth Petty. The rapper and her beau have tied the knot less than a year after their romance began. She’s long referred to him as her “husband”, but she announced last night that it’s official by telling the world she’s changed …

The “Jews of Africa” is not a description you often hear. Unless your conversation is taking place with some Afrocentric polemicists who insist, with little or no proof, that black people are the biblical Israelites. A lot of their conspiracy theories on Jews can sometimes be anti-Semitic. However, there are Jews …

A new dam on the Nile could trigger a war over water unless Ethiopia can agree a deal with Egypt and Sudan It is often said the world’s next world war will be fought over water and there are few places as tense as the River Nile. Egypt and Ethiopia …

In a new style, Makerere University students this morning showcased a different approach to striking with the front line being led by an all female set of players. The new format means the usual heavy handedness of police in responding to riots has to be rethought as security seek to …