LAGOS JANAURY 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Saudi tourist was trampled to death by an elephant during a game drive at a popular park in Uganda, a wildlife official said Wednesday. The attack happened on Tuesday at the Murchison Falls National Park when the man left the vehicle he was travelling in with friends, said Uganda Wildlife Authority spokesman Bashir Hangi….
LAGOS NOVEMBER 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-China has denied reports it could take control of Uganda’s international airport should the government in Kampala default on a $200 million loan from Beijing. “The malicious allegation… has no factual basis and is ill intended to distort the good relations that China enjoys with developing countries including Uganda,” a spokesman for…
LAGOS APRIL 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The United States says it is imposing visa restrictions on “those believed to be responsible for, or complicit in, undermining the democratic process in Uganda,“ including during the election in January and the campaign period. Secretary of State Antony Blinken in a statement said the Ugandan government’s actions “represent a continued downward…
LAGOS APRIL 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Akon’s cryptocurrency construction plans won’t be limited to Senegal. The artist-turned-mogul told Uganda’s NBS that he plans to build a futuristic city in the country. The Ugandan government announced on Monday that it has allotted Akon one square mile of land for him to begin planning an Akon City in the country….
LAGOS JANUARY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Wine, who is also known as Robert Kyagulanyi, showed Reuters around his compound, where several armed men were seen through a fence communicating via radios. “I thought I should inform the world that our lives are in danger and should anything happen to us, at least we have had the opportunity while…
LAGOS DECEMBER 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Rwanda’s green mobility policy, aimed at phasing out petrol motorcycles, has been in effect for at least five years now. In Kenya, electric motorcycles are over a decade in operation. Uganda’s adoption of the innovation is recent, but in all, the trend highlights East Africa’s wokeness in anti-pollution and energy use. It is…
LAGOS AUGUST 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Ten children have been killed by lightning in the north-western Uganda city of Arua after sheltering in a hut during a storm. The children were playing football when heavy rain forced them to take a break in a nearby grass-thatched structure which was struck by lightning. Nine children, aged 13 to 15,…
LAGOS AUGUST 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An unforgettable sight to those who watched him wrestle, former wrestling star James “Kamala” Harris died at age 70, WWE announced on Sunday. Kamala was billed as being born and raised in Uganda, and in a portrayal that is cringeworthy today but was the norm for pro wrestling back then, was often…