Tag Archives: Road

ROAD CARNAGE! 8 Mobile Market Vendors Killed, 7 Critically Injured in Buhweju

ROAD CARNAGE 8 Mobile Market Vendors Killed 7 Critically Injured

Amos Tayebwa |Buhweju Police in the Greater Bushenyi Region are investigating circumstances surrounding a fatal road accident that claimed the lives of eight people and left seven others critically injured in Buhweju District. The accident occurred on December 20, 2025, at about 10:45pm in Kisaana Village along the Nsiika–Bukiro–Mbarara Road, after a Fuso lorry registration number UBA 649Z lost control …

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ROAD TO 2026! MP Bataringaya Slams Mbarara NRM Registrar Over Harassment, Warns Against Electoral Violence

MP Bataringaya on campaign rally in Bwegure

Amos Tayebwa |Mbarara The race for the Kashari North parliamentary seat is intensifying, with incumbent Member of Parliament Basil Bataringaya Omwonyo condemning what he describes as harassment, political malice, and acts likely to incite electoral violence by some National Resistance Movement (NRM) leaders in Mbarara District. Bataringaya alleges that the hostility is being driven by sections of the district NRM …

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ROAD TO 2026! MP Rukaari Vows to End Electricity Crisis in Power-Stressed Areas of Mbarara City North

ROAD TO 2026 MP Rukaari Vows to End Electricity Crisis

Amos Tayebwa Mbarara Member of Parliament for Mbarara City North, Robert Mwesigwa Rukaari, has pledged to resolve the long-standing electricity connectivity challenges affecting several wards in his constituency, particularly Rwemigina and Bunusya. Speaking to residents at Kaburangire Church of Uganda in Rwemigina Ward during a fundraising drive for the construction of Kaburangire Primary School, Rukaari said he has already invested …

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ROAD TO 2026! Buhweju Locals Decry Poor Market Access as Aspiring MP Agaba Calls for Politics of Service Delivery

ROAD TO 2026 Buhweju Locals Decry Poor Market Access as

By Amos Tayebwa |Buhweju District Residents of Buhweju District have raised concern over poor market access for their agricultural and mineral products, blaming weak road infrastructure and what they describe as prolonged neglect by their political leaders. Buhweju County is known for producing waragi, gold, tea, coffee and matooke, but locals say the lack of reliable road networks has left …

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Mukono District Signs Contract for Second Phase of 10.5km Ntenjeru–Buule Road Under GKMA-UDP

Mukono District Signs Contract for Second Phase of 105km Ntenjeru–Buule

Mukono District Local Government has officially signed a contract agreement with China Railway No. 5 Engineering Group for the construction of the second phase of the Ntenjeru–Buule Road, a 10.5km strategic road corridor under the Greater Kampala Metropolitan Area Urban Development Programme (GKMA-UDP), supported by the World Bank. The signing ceremony, chaired by the Chief Administrative Officer Mr. Henry Damba, …

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ROAD TO 2026! Kigongo reads RIOT ACT to NRM independents: “Party is bigger than us all!”

ROAD TO 2026 Kigongo reads RIOT ACT to NRM independents

The National Resistance Movement (NRM) national vice chairperson, Al-Hajji Moses Kigongo, has called on party leaders in Butaleja to set aside personal differences and unite to strengthen the Movement’s grassroots structures, stressing that the party is “bigger than all of us.” In a meeting with NRM leaders last Sunday, Kigongo urged members to uphold discipline and loyalty, warning that internal …

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ROAD TO 2026! MP Rukaari Defends NRM-Leaning Independent Bid

ROAD TO 2026 MP Rukaari Defends NRM Leaning Independent Bid

By Amos Tayebwa – Mbarara A fresh storm is brewing within the National Resistance Movement (NRM) as tension mounts between official party flagbearers and NRM-leaning independents ahead of the 2026 general elections. Mbarara City North MP Robert Mwesigwa Rukaari has come out strongly to defend his decision to run as an independent, accusing some senior NRM figures of intimidation and …

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ROAD TO 2026! Tomson Bandiho storms Sheema South Mp race as Independent, vows to shake status quo

ROAD TO 2026 Tomson Bandiho storms Sheema South Mp race

Sheema, Uganda — The political landscape of Sheema South, western Uganda, has taken a new twist following the entry of Tomson Mwesigwa Bandiho . He was last week officially nominated to contest as an Independent candidate in the forthcoming 2026 parliamentary elections. Speaking shortly after his nomination, Bandiho expressed gratitude to the people of Sheema South for their confidence in …

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