The week in pictures

Mr James Emokol a makeshift barber shop owner in Ongiino in Kumi District attends to clients on Friday. Interestingly, the market does not have electricity but he uses solar panels to tap energy which he stores in an ordinary car battery and he uses it to power the hair cutter as well as charge phones. Apparently, he makes a minimum of Shs50,000 every Friday. Photo by Stephen Otage

We present to you some of the best photos which made headlines in the course of the week.

A boy collects water from a well in Bugembegembe Village, in Kayunga/Gombe Ward Parish, Wakiso town council in Wakiso District on Friday. Wakiso has 3,936 domestic water points which serve a total of 954,681 people – 636,305 in rural areas. 658 water points have been non-functional for over 5 years and are considered abandoned. The District has four piped schemes. A Whatsapp group of Muslim journalists is trying to install a borehole and plaster a needy mosque in Bugembegembe Village. Photo by Yasiin Mugerwa

Muslims hold prayers amid tight security outside High Court in Kampala where colleagues suspected to be behind the 2015 senseless killings of Muslim clerics appeared for trial on Monday. Photo by Alex Esagala

Some of the residents seen at the accident scene where at least five people, including Kalungu District traffic police boss were killed and 60 others injurred. This was after six vehicles were Sunday morning involved in an accident at Mukoko Village , Bukulula in Kalungu District along Kampala- Masaka Highway. Photo by Sadat Mbogo

A security officer guards some of the goods recovered from one of the six accident vehicles along Masaka-Kampala highway on July 17. This was after some people tried to steal the goods from the accident vehicles. Photo by Sadat Mbogo

Police officers guard sodas recovered from one six vehicles involved in an accident on Sunday. This was after some of the residents of Mukoko Village, Bukulula in Kalungu District along Kampala- Masaka Highway where the accident happened tried to steal the merchandise. Photo by Sadat Mbogo

An anti-riot Police officer rides three pupils to school. Police outlawed carrying more than one passenger on a motor bike. Courtesy Photo

Forum for Democratic Change former presidential candidate Dr Kizza Besigye receives a goat and clusters of yellow banana from Ntungamo roadside vendors on his way to Kampala from Kabale where he earlier on Monday attended a Magistrate’s court session. PHOTO BY PEREZ RUMANZI

US ambassador to Uganda Deborah Malac displays her dance strokes during 240 independence anniversary of USA in Nsambya, a Kampala suburb on July 13, 2016. PHOTO BY STEPHEN WANDERA

Traffic officers inspect a trailer after a driver lost control of it, veering off the road into a garden at the Naguru Police Station Thursday morning. The driver was struggling to avoid crashing into other vehicles that were stuck in traffic jam at the Nakawa-Ntinda junction. Several trailers use the road which some motorists say is an inconvenience to them most times. PHOTO BY STEPHEN OTAGE

Sisters in tears upon seeing the casket containing the remains of popular Kampala Catholic Charismatic Renewal lay leader, John Bosco Mukajanga at Bukalango on Sunday. Mukajanga, 42, was found dead in his home on Saturday morning. Mukajanga’s personal doctor said he died of a blood clot in one of his vessels that take blood to the lungs. Photo by Joseph Kiggundu

The South Sudan refugees gathered at the Elegu Refugees Collection Centre in Atiak sub county in Amuru District. Government Thursday said more than 14,887 refugees have crossed into Uganda from South Sudan since July 7, when war broke out in Africa’s youngest country. The highest number (7,225) of new arrivals was on July 18, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and Office of the Prime Minister (OPM). PHOTO BY JULIUS OCUNGI

L-R: Katwe Division Field Operations Commander, Patrick Muhumuza, Wandegeya Division Police Commander, Moses Nanoka, Kampala Metropolitan Police Field Force Commander, Samuel Bamuzibire, and Kampala Metropolitan Police South Commander, Andrew Kaggwa were on July 20 charged with use of excessive force to disperse supporters of former FDC presidential candidate, Dr Kizza Besigye, at the Police Disciplinary Court. PHOTO BY RACHEL MABALA

Pupils’ music, dance and drama team perform at the opening of the 4th Annual National literacy Conference in Kampala on Wednesday. Speaking at the conference, State minister in charge of Primary Education Rosemary Seninde said the Ministry of Education will expand teaching using vernacular to improve literacy. According to her, learners comprehend the curriculum better when it is introduced to them in the language most familiar. Photo by Alex Esagala