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The Guardian, a British paper recently reported that the alleged fraud was detected after Busoga Association claimed to have spent over 198 million shillings to hire consultants to make a bid for a donation from Comic relief.

The Buruuli chiefdom has welcomed the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed between Buganda Kingdom and Central Government. Last week President Yoweri Museveni handed over to the Buganda officials a MOU that he and Kabaka Ronald Muwenda Mutebi signed on the return of the kingdom properties.

Kwizera decided to adjourn the case to 9th September 2013 when the activists will reappear in court.

Seven people were injured after four houses were buried by the soil and several hectors of crop gardens destroyed.

Bank of Uganda attributes the increase to the dry spell, which has pushed up the price of agricultural produce.

Some of the vendors interviewed by URN accuse the municipality of making empty promises to address their concerns.

The Court of Appeal has declined to grant permission to the 4 NRM MPs to appeal to the Supreme Court over their impending expulsion from Parliament. MPs Theodore Ssekikubo, Wilfred Nuwagaba, Barnabas Tinkasiimire and Mohammed Nsereko were challenging the jurisdiction of 3 judges to hear and determine a Constitutional application by their party seeking to throw them out of parliament.

Simbwa says that he has already made arrangements with the Ugandan clubs and is only waiting for official invitations.

A Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) soldier has been arrested in Nakaseke district for alleged cattle theft.

They are Charles Walimbwa Peke, the incumbent Manafwa district LC V chairperson and James Netalisire, a businessman in Mbale also husband to Sarah Netalisire the Manafwa district woman MP.

Members of Bundibugyo Elders Development Association (BEDA) want President Museveni to explain why the government is still quiet on their demand to install the Bamba Cultural leader. The installation of Major Martin Kamya as the cultural leader or Omudinganya of the Bamba community has twice been postponed this year.

Buliisa Member of Parliament Steven Mukitale Birahwa says only re-centralization of medical services will address Buliisa district’s health staff problems. Buliisa has for the last three years gone without a district health officer and staff retention in the existing health facilities is a problem.

However, Richard Alioka, the Nakaseke Deputy Chief Administrative Officer nullified the transfer of Luyonde on 30th July 2013 and re-instated him as Town clerk of Semuto town council.

At least 95 members of the U.S. Congress have signed a bipartisan letter to President Barack Obama, urging him to address the violence of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) in Central Africa.

He says that his 120 citrus trees have been affected by the disease.

George Kiberu, the chairperson Masaka United Taxi Drivers and Owners Cooperative Society- MUTDOCS has dismissed calls for their resignation.

They also recovered several application forms of nurses the suspect had allegedly recruited after soliciting money from them purportedly to take them to South Sudan.

The Population Secretariat is calling for an emphasis on sexuality education and sexual reproductive health for teenagers as a way of reducing teenage pregnancies.

According to Dr. Julius Muron, a Psychiatrist at Butabika Mental Hospital says about 10% of women are exposed to third hand and second hand smoking, which occurs through the inhalation of cigarette smoke, either at workplaces, homes or in public places. In June, new research from Laurence Berkeley National Laboratory at the University of California claimed for the first time that third-hand smoke from cigarettes causes significant genetic damage to human cells.

While members of the Civil Society accuse government of harassing them for their advocacy work among the communities affected by the proposed refinery, government insists the group is sabotaging the project by mobilizing residents against it.