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Uganda Air Cargo Corporation (UACC), once envisioned as a strategic national aviation asset under the supervision of the Ministry of Defence and Veteran Affairs, is now at the centre of a storm after a damning Auditor General’s report exposed deep financial distress, stalled partnerships, grounded aircraft and a controversial foreign deal that appears to be going nowhere, RedPepper can report. …

The family of 31-year-old Fauza Musubika of Mpungwe Village in Kagoma Town Council, Jinja District, who was hired as a housemaid, has been shocked by the postmortem report that accompanied her body from Saudi Arabia stating that she died of natural causes. The late Musubika had allegedly, for some weeks, been sending messages complaining of being mistreated by her employers, …

Shock and outrage have gripped Kampala after a 22-year-old security guard attached to Gideon Security System was charged over the alleged rape, murder and aggravated robbery of popular TikTok content creator Diana Namulinde, alias Skyz. Webisa Marvin was on Thursday arraigned before the Kampala City Hall Court and formally charged in connection with the 4th February incident that occurred in …

Uganda’s booming betting industry has been thrown into scandal after a Fortebet employee was unmasked as part of a deadly armed gang behind the cold-blooded murder of a senior police officer and a wave of violent robberies across the Kampala Metropolitan Area. In a dramatic intelligence-led swoop, police arrested five suspects, including Okello Daniel, a guard attached to Fortebet, during …

KAMPALA — A storm has engulfed Uganda’s pharmaceutical sector following the revelation that the deadly anaesthetic drug Bupitroy Heavy (Bupivacaine 0.5%), recently recalled by the National Drug Authority (NDA), was manufactured in India and distributed locally by one of East Africa’s largest pharmaceutical giants — Abacus Pharma (A) Limited. The NDA’s “Class A” recall, the highest possible level signaling life-threatening …