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UPDF officers organizing for operations. By Dramadri Federick Arua City More than 300 Ugandans lose their lives every year due to gun-related violence, largely driven by the misuse of legally owned firearms and the widespread circulation of illegal guns. This is according to a report by the National Focal Point […]

Temporary election officials during one of the recent elections in Arua city. By Onzoma Albert Arua city The Electoral Commission is finalizing payments for 26,896 temporary election officials in the West Nile region who served during the 2026 General Elections. West Nile has a total of 3,362 polling stations, each […]

West Nile Province Players for Training in Arua city URN West Nile Province has summoned a 20-man squad to prepare for the first leg of their quarterfinal clash against Bunyoro Province in the FUFA Drum. The highly anticipated encounter will take place on Saturday, March 21, 2026, at Royal Park Butema […]

BBC Kenya’s foreign minister says Russia has agreed to stop deploying Kenyan nationals to fight in the war in Ukraine, after talks in Moscow. Sitting beside his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, Musalia Mudavadi said both sides had agreed that Kenyans would no longer be recruited through Russia’s defence ministry. “They […]

FIA logo. NILE POST Among the organisations whose accounts have reportedly been frozen are Agora Centre for Research, Chapter Four Uganda, African Institute for Investigative Journalism, Centre for Constitutional Governance, and The Great Lakes Institute for Strategic Studies, among others. The Financial Intelligence Authority (FIA) has frozen bank accounts belonging […]

Teachers for an engagement with WENRECO and NCDC officials (Photo by Benson Pastore) By Martin Anguyo Arua City Efforts to improve the quality of education in the West Nile sub-region are gaining momentum as the West Nile Rural Electrification Company (WENRECo) intensifies its support toward strengthening teachers’ professional capacity in […]

NUP President Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu. URN photo.  URN Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, the president of the National Unity Platform (NUP), has announced that he has left Uganda, saying he made the decision for safety after spending about two months in hiding. In a message posted on his private account on the […]

BBC The Palestinian armed group Hamas has called on Iran to stop attacking Gulf States, in a rare appeal to its key ally. The Tehran-backed group urged its “brothers in Iran to avoid targeting neighbouring countries”, saying in a statement that all regional nations should co-operate “to preserve the bonds […]

AFP and Reuters New Delhi says two Indian-flagged tankers carrying liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) bound for ports in the country’s west have crossed the Strait of Hormuz in Iran. “They crossed the Strait of Hormuz early morning safely and are en route to India,” Rajesh Kumar Sinha, special secretary of the Ministry […]

Assistant Bishop of Kampala Diocese Bishop Fredrick Jackson Baalwa. URN The Assistant Bishop of the Diocese of Kampala, Fredrick Jackson Baalwa, has said journalism is not a crime and urged the government and security agencies to respect the work of media practitioners who play a critical role in informing the […]