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Police in Jinja City has dispersed crowds of Boda Boda riders with live bullets and teargas for staging a protest over high fuel prices.

The MPs urged the government to commence the implementation of the approved salary enhancement of the Arts teachers and primary teachers progressively.

The deceased, 20-year-old Jacob Opiyo, was a resident of Kitgum District. Opiyo reportedly collapsed moments after completing the 5 Km run in the ongoing recruitment exercise.

Police in Rukiga are investigating the circumstances surrounding the fire outbreak at St. Aloysius Girl's Secondary School in Kitanga, Rukiga district school.

The bill seeks to regulate organ and tissue donation and transplant in Uganda under the Uganda Organ and Transplant Council, and Mulago National Referral Hospital as the pioneering transplant center.

The warning was sounded by Speaker of Parliament, Anita Among, in her communication to Members at the start of plenary on Wednesday, 06 July 2022.

Hundreds turned up in Kasese District for the same exercise where they were asked to run about 10 kilometers as part of their physical training. In the process of running, several people dropped out while others collapsed.

In 2016, the then East African Affairs Minister, Shem Bageine said Swahili would be compulsory from primary to University level effective 2018 but this failed to be achieved

Uganda will begin using Kiswahili as the national language, and it will be introduced as a compulsory subject at the primary and secondary school levels across the country, the government has decided.

At least 1,000 students of Blessed Sacrament Kimanya Secondary School in Masaka district have been suspended by the school administration over a strike The culprits include senior four, three, and five students

Several Ethiopians are using Uganda as a transit route, especially to Lebanon, the Deputy Coordinator prevention of trafficking ministry of internal Affairs Agnes Igoye has said.

Museveni has invited the leadership of the Uganda National Teacher's Union-UNATU for another meeting later today in an effort to end the nationwide teacher's strike.  The meeting follows the teacher's rejection of a "new deal" proposed by the Ministry of Public Service.