• is your child taking this drug?
  AN intoxicating drug is being openly sold in Ugandan shops and supermarkets. The drug, sold under the brand name Kuber, is disguised as a mouth freshener and packed in sachets similar to tea leaves pouches.
  
• Religious sect stores dead bodies
  A RELIGIOUS sect that preserves dead bodies is seeking to build a multi-million dollar autonomous city in Rakai district. The Sserulanda Spiritual Foundation hopes to turn 200 square miles adjacent to Lake Victoria into a free trade zone, dubbed Ssessamirembe Spiritual City.
  

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• Religious Sect Stores Dead Bodies
  A RELIGIOUS sect that preserves dead bodies is seeking to build a multi-million dollar autonomous city in Rakai district.
  
• Ugandan Rebels Committing Grave Rights Abuses
  Since mid-September, the notorious Ugandan rebel group, the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), has killed over 200 people, including 159 children, according to a new United Nations report.
  
• Children Eke Out a Living on the Streets
  John Kibwola, 14, braves the scorching afternoon sun as he sells his collection of plastic bottles along Acholi Street in the northern Ugandan town of Gulu.
  
• We Could Still Do Much Better
  Thursday was Independence Day. And, as always, it was time to take stock of where the country stands 46 years on. President Museveni spoke of the lost years under Obote and Amin. And then the recovery under his leadership starting in 1986. That was self-serving but not entirely incorrect.
  
• Don't Close Schools On Teachers' Day
  ON Monday many primary schools countrywide were closed. Reason? It was World Teachers' Day and they needed a day off to attend the celebrations. In practice, however, most teachers used this as a day off to catch up on other issues.
  
• Is Your Child Taking This Drug?
  A highly addictive, intoxicating drug is being openly sold in Ugandan shops and supermarkets.
  
• Furniture Makers Seek Loans
  The highway to Nsambya, a Kampala surbub is famed for its road side furniture outlets but makers of rustic furniture say lack of capital has hampered the growth of their business.
  
• The Game of Football is Bigger Than Cranes
  The world's most famous sport has not been very friendly to the people of Uganda despite endless claims that we love the game of football.
  
• Cholera Fight in Kampala Makes Positive Leaps
  Unlike in the past, communities affected by the latest cholera outbreak in Kampala are now responding fast to public health guidelines aimed at containing the infection.
  
• Fatah to Handle Crunch Benin Tie Handle
  World football governing body Fifa have appointed Egyptian referee Essam Abd El Fatah to officiate the crucial 2010 World Cup/African Nations Cup qualifier between Uganda Cranes and Benin.
  
• Why We Must Support Cranes Tomorrow
  There are things that cannot be changed, regardless of whether you are Barack Obama or the beggar at the T-junction between Entebbe and Kampala road.
  
• Independence - Country Divided At Heart
  Kampala
  
• It's Been a Decade of Promoting Rights, Says UHRC's Sekaggya
  The Uganda Human Rights Commission on October 3 commemorated "a Decade of Human Rights Work; Making Human Rights a Reality for All" at the Sheraton Kampala Hotel's Rwenzori Ballroom. Saturday Monitor's Solomon Muyita caught up with the rights body's Chairperson, Ms Margaret Sekaggya, and below, she talks about how she has managed the institution:-
  
• Cranes - Worry Only About Benin Game, Result
  There was a time when thousands would await the national team's return and jubilantly escort the motorcade all the way to a State dinner, yet on Wednesday evening a policeman wouldn't let their bus through an access road back to their hotel.
  
• Future is Uncertain for Local Soccer
  Despite possessing vast skills, the likes of Ibrahim Sekagya, David Obua, Nestroy Kizito and Eugene Sseppuuya, to mention but a few, may call time on their careers without playing in the much-cherished Africa Cup of Nations.