Month: January 2025

Museveni addressing his supporters in Kabale on his way back home from Rwanda. President Yoweri Museveni has advised the people of Kabale district to refrain from smuggling goods into Rwanda and instead engage in formal business. In a statement provided by the presidential press unit, Museveni made the comment at

A section of Ajai Wildlife Reserve in Madi Okollo district. Uganda Wildlife Authority -UWA is stuck with 11 households who settled inside Ajai Wildlife Reserve in Madi Okollo district. The reserve, located on the west bank of the Nile between Pakwach and Nimule, about 32km from Arua town was first

Candidates undergoing medical tests. The Uganda People’s Defense Force (UPDF) recruitment team in Lira has failed to meet its target after several applicants tested positive for sexually transmitted diseases. The two-day exercise was targeting 495 recruits from the districts of Amolatar, Alebtong, Otuke, Dokolo, and Lira. However, only 299 applicants

Prime Minister Robinah Nabbanja has ordered the arrest of Sebastian Nuwamanya, the Parish Chief of Kasingo Ward in Hoima West Division over alleged abscondment from duty and excessive consumption of alcohol. Nabbanja issued the directive on Friday afternoon while addressing implementers of the Parish Development Model at Kitara Secondary School

Unwell: Betty Nambooze Mukono municipality Member of Parliament Betty Bakireke Nambooze has been cleared by the Medical Board to travel to the United States for treatment. The breakthrough comes after the intervention of the Speaker of Parliament Annet Anita Among who directed the Medical Board to fast-track her clearance as

The Bishop of West Buganda Anglican Diocese; The Rt Rev Henry Katumba Tamale, has called for a general salary scales review for all public servants, as a decisive solution to the recurrent strikes. He is concerned that repeated action by different categories of civil servants is presenting grievous effects to

Ecoplastiles founder and CEO Kamugyisha (R), KCCA and Coca Cola's Public and Corporate Affairs Director Kirunda Magoola sign waste management partnership. Coca Cola, through its initiative, Plastic Recycling Industries, has strategized on how to recycle 100% of its products. The Company’s Public and Corporate Affairs Director, Kirunda Magoola, says that

The Dairy Development Authority is concerned that milk adulteration remains a challenge facing the dairy industry. Farmers reportedly add water and maize flour among others in a bid to increase the quantity of milk and fetch higher prices. Water is added to the milk from the process of milking to

EC Chairperson Justice Simon Byabakama. The Electoral Commission has suspended the program for women council and committees elections due to a lack of funds. In February, the Electoral Commission issued a roadmap detailing the various activities to be conducted under the programme for elections of Women Councils and Committees from

Antonio Querido Uganda is contributing nearly $10 million to the latest phase of a South-South Cooperation project focused on crop and animal production with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Chinese government after the first two phases yielded dramatic results, including a quadrupling of