Year: 2025

Pupils in Moroto district are demanding respect for their rights to enable them to achieve their goals in the future. The children made the appeal during the Human Rights Day celebrations held at Kasimeri primary school. The children who were drawn from selected schools noted that corporal punishment, defilement, and child labor

Mpanga Growers Tea Factory, one of the major tea factories in the Tooro region has resumed full operations after years of struggling. The factory is one of the tea factories formerly under the Uganda Tea Growers Corporation. After privatization by the government with the assistance of the European Union, smallholder

Acholi Cultural Institution is struggling to enforce the ban on the massive sale of land, the paramount Chief, Rwot David Onen Acana II has said. In November 2021, Acholi Cultural Institution banned its subjects from selling more than 50 acres of land. The institution also demanded that it should be notified before

Robinah Nabbanja, the Prime Minister of Uganda has cautioned locals in Kigezi sub-region to stop the habit of land fragmentation. Kigezi is hilly and densely populated, which fuels land fragmentation. Parents often divide the land among their children. While handing over 4,000 freehold land titles in Kitumba sub-county in Kabale district on

Agnes Namugabo, a house help is in trouble for allegedly stealing and attempting to sell off the three-year-old daughter of her boss at Shillings 3 million. Namugabo, who is in custody at Jinja Central Police Station was arrested from the Mailo-Mbili roundabout stage enroute to Kidera town council in Buyende district

Bioethicists have expressed concern that volunteers in scientific studies are not thoroughly informed about the risk involved in some research and the fact that their samples will be used for future studies. Prof. Erisa Mwaka, a bioethicist based at Makerere University told journalists at a press conference that he conducted

Out growers have decried exploitation by middlemen for the green tea leaf they supply to Mpanga Growers Tea Factory. This came up during the 2021 shareholder's Annual General Meeting held at the factory premises in Kabarole District Saturday. The outgrowers explained that since the factory does not buy green leaves from them directly,

The World Bank has backed Kenya’s efforts to increase pension contributions by workers to the National Social Security Fund (NSSF) from the current Sh200 per month to six per cent of monthly pay. This is a boost to the Kenya Kwanza administration’s push for enhanced pension savings with employees’ monthly

Unknown gunmen have shot dead two people at Kasule Ayanguwa village, Budde Sub County in Butambala District. It is alleged that three men who were riding on a motorcycle stormed the village on Friday night as the residents gathered following the arrest of two suspected cattle thieves. According to the residents, when they

Bunyangabu National Resistance Movement-NRM party members have criticized the party leaders who are going around endorsing presidential candidates for the 2026 general elections. The members say that it is disappointing that the party has shifted from implementing its 2021-2026 manifesto and opted for early campaigns just two years after being given