Month: May 2024

Samples taken from a man who died in Kagadi District have tested positive for Ebola. The case is of a 23-year-old man who died from St. Ambrose Charity Health Center IV in Kagadi on Tuesday. The victim according to health officials first travelled to Mubende district which is the epicentre

In the last six weeks, police have recorded a growing number of incidents where children have been gruesomely killed by their own parents, especially mothers. In these incidents, one mother last week killed her two children in Mukono.Another mother killed her three children in Kikuube while another killed her son

TotalEnergies has assured the country that they have no plans of quitting Uganda’s oil and gas industry, for as long as the country needs them. This comes amidst a growing campaign by civil society groups in and outside the country, who were recently joined by the European Union Parliament in

Innovation driven: Robert Muwanga, NSSF Innovations Services Manager (R) receiving the Startup Champion Public Sector award from Opolot Nicholas Programme Officer KAS Uganda on 26th November 2021. The National Social Security Fund (NSSF) has announced a partnership with Ideawake, a global innovation software company, to expand access to the NSSF

TotalEnergies EP Uganda General Manager, Philippe Groueix.  TotalEnergies EP Uganda last evening unveiled its Action for Sustainability campaign aimed at showcasing the various initiatives that the company has been undertaking to ensure the sustainable development of Uganda’s oil and gas resources, in collaboration with the regulators and various partners. Speaking

Education Minister Janet Museveni is dismayed that several Non-Governmental Organizations-NGOs, are disguising themselves as human rights defenders, but instead promote immorality among school-going children. Mrs Museveni hinted that there is a new global agenda to deliberately promote immorality, which is evidenced in the indecent entertainment performances openly exhibited before children.

UNBS Executive Director, David Livingstone Ebiru. Uganda National Bureau of Standards (UNBS) has opened its 2nd Food Safety Laboratory in Mbale City to provide Conformity Assessment and Quality Assurance of products manufactured in Eastern Uganda.According to David Livingstone Ebiru, the Executive Director of Uganda National Bureau of Standards (UNBS), this

At least 8,000 coffee farmers in the West Nile sub-region are expected to reap carbon farming. Under the new initiative, smallholder farmers will be supported to embrace coffee agro-forestry, by planting trees that have synergy with coffee within their gardens which will help in absorbing carbon from the atmosphere. Christopher

Participants pose for a photo at the first national consultative meeting on Regulatory Impact Assessment report to address challenges affecting startups in Uganda. The Member of Parliament Northern Uganda for Youth, Boniface Okot, has announced that soon, he will move a motion to introduce a private Member’s Bill on startups