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JUBA (Drive Hot Blog) - South Sudan's government and rebels are set for New Year's Day peace talks in Ethiopia's capital, Addis Ababa, to thrash out a ceasefire to end weeks of ethnic bloodletting in the world's newest state. Both sides agreed to a ceasefire on Tuesday, mediators said, but fighting between government troops and militias loyal to former Vice President Riek Machar raged in Bor,...

KAMPALA The Uganda National Examinations Board (Uneb) has been gripped by panic after several computers used to store and compute examination results suffered technical faults and are yet to be fixed. This newspaper understands that the software used to operate the “old” computers “crashed” last week which could lead to postponing the...

Hyena Consoles Heartbroken Babe, Shafts Her Lame. 2007 IS a good year for Hyena and like the Chinese say a year with a 6 belongs to a dragon, me i say a year with a 7 belongs to Hyena because the way am shafting women, the sky is the limit. If God isn’t careful, I will end up shafting with one of his Angels. God sent Prophet Muwanguzi to do miracles but he sent me to please all the unpleased...

Kampala. Former Vice President Gilbert Bukenya has asked opposition parties and those who want change in the country’s leadership to embrace unity and front one candidate against President Museveni in 2016. In his New Year statement released last Friday, Prof Bukenya urged opposition political parties to forge a unifying plan to challenge the NRM government. ...

 From Left: Hussein Hassan Mustafa, Ibrahim Adan Dheq, Liban Abdulahi and Mohammed Ahmed. The four were on November 4th charged over the Westgate shopping mall terror attack in which at least 70 people were killed and over 200 others injured on September 21. A court for a second time has rejected a request to have one of the suspects in the Westgate shopping mall incident released...

 State Department spokesperson Jen PsakiThe US has voiced concern over an anti-homosexuality bill passed by Uganda’s parliament.“We are deeply concerned by the Ugandan Parliament’s passage of anti-homosexuality legislation,” State Department spokesperson Jen Psaki said on Tuesday.“As Americans, we believe that people everywhere deserve to live in freedom and equality – and that no-one should...

 Models poses for a photo with a man dressed as Santa Claus at Thika Road Mall, Nairobi, on Christmas Eve.The Somali Government has banned celebration of Christian festivities in the country.A directive released on Tuesday by the Ministry of Justice and Religious Affairs stated that no Christian festivities could be held in Somalia.The Director General of the ministry, Sheikh Mohamed Khayrow...

Kampala Twenty police officers have been arrested on allegations of extorting money from suspects and victims during the festive season. The officers were arrested between December 21 and 23, and they are currently detained at Special Investigations Unit in Kireka, Wakiso District. Deputy police spokesman,...

The Chairman of the Nuer Students Union in Kenya Kueth Machar Nyak leads other students in addressing a press conference at a Nairobi hotel on the 24th of December, 2013 where they condemned the Juba violence that has seen several people killed and others displaced. A group of South Sudanese students in Nairobi now say President Salva Kiir should step down before any peace talks can begin...

South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir. The United Nations on Tuesday said a mass grave had been discovered in Bentiu, the capital of South Sudan's oil-rich Unity State. The United Nations on Tuesday said a mass grave had been discovered in Bentiu, the capital of South Sudan's oil-rich Unity State, following a surge of violence in the world's youngest nation."We have discovered a...

 (L-R) Mowzey Radio, Bebe Cool and Weasel during the Ug-Rwanda night show.Kampala- There was a time when Bebe Cool and Goodlyfe did not see eye to eye. The wee hours of Thursday, at a concert dubbed ‘Ug-Rwanda night’, proved a win not just for social integration but for the artistes. They proved that they have put their differences behind them. For the first...

 Moses Awongo, a UPDF soldier attached to Mbuya Army Barracks at Mulago hospital. He is one of the victims of the Kinawataka shooting.KAMPALA- Police and other security agencies are hunting for a UPDF soldier, who shot dead three people, including his lover, injuring another three, after suspecting his girlfriend of having another lover.Pte Patrick Odongo, attached to Mbuya Army Headquarters,...

KAMPALA- Police say during the festive season criminals work hardest and these are the spots in different parts of the country where they operate most. Northern Bypass The 21-kilometre road near the city centre is one of the most dangerous places in the city. The road has no lights at night and stretches of uninhabited wetlands, which gives room to criminals to operate...

Ugandan students in Egypt are reportedly confined to their university campus to protect them from the escalating violence in the country. There are more than 300 Ugandan students at Al-Azahar University, which is found in the Egyptian capital Cairo. Hundreds of Egyptians have been killed in the clashes between supporters and opponents of Mohamed Morsi, since his ouster.The students are pursuing...

 Former Minister for Education in South Sudan Stephen Par Kuol speaking during the interview on December 23, 2013.A pointman of South Sudan’s fugitive former Vice President Riek Machar has accused President Salva Kiir of not being honest in calling for talks to end the crisis in Africa’s youngest nation.Mr Stephen Kuol, a Minister in the troubled Jonglei State of South Sudan told the Drive...

But how can Biku harass the country’s top and oldest university like that?” my maid said as she switched channels in disgust from the local news that was showing the bedbugs problem at Makerere. “Since it is the oldest then it is understandable that the have bedbugs,” commented the minister’s maid who did not seem interested in the subject either. ...

A journalist, author and former UN worker, Ms Scholastic Kimaryo, clarifies a point during an interview with this paper in Pretoria, South Africa recently. She says that her work with Unicef in South Africa focused on supporting the emerging democracy by incorporating the rights of children into the new Constitution.She has come a long way. Her experience around gender sent her on a journalistic...

Kampala. You engage in homosexuality, you rot in jail, according to the Anti-Homosexuality Bill passed by Parliament on Friday. An excited Parliament debated and overwhelmingly passed the Bill which criminalises sexual intercourse between same-sex partners. The legislation provides for a sentence of life imprisonment for anyone convicted...

 South Sudanese women and children queue for water being distributed from a UN reservoir at the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) compound in Juba on December 21, 2013The United Nations is moving “non-critical” staff from South Sudan's capital, Juba, to Entebbe in Uganda, the UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) announced on Sunday.The relocation comes as fighting intensified in...

A view of the scene where a cargo train derailed in Kibera on December 22, 2013. PHOTO  cargo train on Sunday morning derailed while passing through Kibera near Nyayo Highrise estate in Nairobi, crashing into nearby houses and injuring several people.Both St John Ambulance and Kenya Red Cross confirmed through their twitter accounts that they had dispatched ambulances to the area.However,...

  A storm system swept across the central and southern U.S. on Saturday, bringing tornadoes and wind gusts that ripped roofs from barns and hurled trees into power lines, officials said. At least two people were killed.A man died after his mobile home overturned in northern Mississippi, said Coahoma County Coroner Scotty Meredith. Another man was killed when his car hit a tree that had...

Dodoma. Parliament yesterday scrapped the controversial sim card tax and agreed to raise excise duty on telecommunication services by a further 2.5 per cent. The move will raise internet costs and puts to an end six months of confrontations between wananchi and pressure groups and the government. The intention of mobile phone companies, which also opposed the sim...

US army soldiers stand guard as a US army aircraft remains on the runway awaiting the arrival of American nationals who are being evacuated due to recent unrest and violence in South Sudan, on December 21, 2013, in Juba.US President Barack Obama on Saturday warned South Sudan's rebel forces against a military coup after four American servicemen were wounded in an attack on their aircraft in the...