TODAY: CECAFA women’s football tournament Jinja Zanzibar v Burundi 2pm (free entry) Uganda v Kenya 4pm (free entry) GROUP A: Uganda, Kenya, Burundi, Zanzibar GROUP B: Ethiopia, Tanzania, Rwanda East and central Africa football takes a strong step forward today when Uganda hosts the inaugural CECAFA women’s tournament. Zanzibar takes on Burundi  before hosts Uganda …

Saturday results Sadolin Paints 0 Police 1 Saints 1 Express 2 Lweza 0 C Villa 0 Vipers 1 BUL 0 JMC Hippos 1 URA 3 Soana 1 Kirinya 0 Proline 2 Bright Stars 2   Match reports by UPL Vipers 1-0 Bul Vipers kept up the pressure on leaders KCCA …

Manchester, United Kingdom | AFP | Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho singled out some of his players for stinging criticism following their 2-1 loss to derby rivals Manchester City. The United manager hauled off Henrikh Mkhitaryan and Jesse Lingard at half-time and said it was only because he did not …

  Lagos, Nigeria | AFP |    Hollywood plague movies are usually about a fictional viral outbreak, unleashing chaos and anarchy that can only be stopped by heroes who transcend the panic. That’s not true for “93 Days”, a Nollywood film premiering on Tuesday, which dramatises the story of Nigeria’s …

  Lagos, Nigeria | AFP | Traffic jams may clog the city and the beaches look like garbage dumps, but for the Lagos state government developing tourism is now a do or die matter. Nigeria has survived almost exclusively on oil revenues for decades, but the plunge in crude prices …

Washington, United States | AFP | Hillary Clinton said Saturday she regretted saying that half of Donald Trump’s supporters belong in a “basket of deplorables” – a remark the billionaire Republican slammed as her “worst mistake of the political season.” The Democratic presidential candidate came under fire for remarks made …

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania | AFP |    At least 16 people died and 253 were injured in a 5.7-magnitude earthquake that struck northwest Tanzania and was felt throughout the Great Lakes region, local authorities said Sunday. As rescuers scrambled to find survivors from Saturday’s quake, Tanzanian premier Kassim Majaliwa …

New York, United States | AFP | Sunday marks the 15th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on the United States that left nearly 3,000 people dead. The Al-Qaeda plane hijackings of September 11, 2001 — the first foreign attack on the US mainland in nearly two centuries — ruptured a …

National Water and Sewerage Corporation aims to have every Ugandan village in urban centres connected to a safe source of water by 2020. Dr Silver Mugisha, the Managing Director of NWSC said the sh180 billion project that starts next year will see all of 60,000 villages connected. He revealed that …

OPINION: By Fred Muwema  The current local and International buzz about Uganda’s Rolex (a rolled chapati with eggs and vegetables) appears to be restoring a little pride to some Ugandans. In June 2016, CNN named Uganda’s Rolex as the fastest growing fast food in Africa. Since then, the Rolex festival …