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Inside Uganda’s first mobile phone assembly plant

To get just one working mobile phone device fitted together from series of metallic and plastic components screwed, takes many hands and heads working together for several hours if not minutes....

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Ugandans sweep all at MTN Marathon

Ugandan runners won the 42km, 21km and 10km races as hundreds of runners turned up Sunday morning to participate in the MTN Kampala Marathon focused on fundraising cash to improve maternal health in...

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Livingstone University postpones exams over floods

Livingstone International University in Mbale has postponed its forthcoming examinations after floods ravaged the institution's premises.  The university was set to begin its semester one examinations...

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Floods cut off Moroto-Kotido road

Flash floods have cut off Moroto–Kotido road following three days of heavy rainfall. Rains pounded Moroto from Friday afternoon and went on for more than 72 hours causing R.Lopei to flood, affecting...

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Pressure mounts on KCCA acting ED Kitaka to vacate office

Seven people identifying themselves as 'taxpayers and concerned citizens' have written to the acting executive director, Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA), Andrew Kitaka to vacate office citing the...

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New Budhagali oracle to ’inherit’ deceased’s wife

The new oracle of Bujagali falls who was unveiled to the public yesterday Sunday will inherit Mastula Lukowe, the wife to his predecessor Budhagali Nabbamba.According to traditionalists, the heir to...

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Museveni Anti-corruption Walk a mockery, waste of time - Muntu

The forthcoming 'Anti-corruption Walk' by President Yoweri Museveni is a mockery to the nation because corruption is part and parcel of the current leadership, Maj Gen Mugisha Muntu, the national...

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'Peaceful' presidential election in Guinea-Bissau

The voting process Sunday of Guinea-Bissau's presidential election was "peaceful, calm and orderly," said Oldemiro Baloi, who heads international observers of the Community of Portuguese speaking...

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Botched C-Section: Medical Association blames gov't

The government is to blame for a botched C-Section at Jinja referral hospital when intern doctors pulled off an arm of baby during an operation on November 10, Uganda Medical Association (UMA) has...

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Low turn up as Muntada Aid offers free children heart surgery

Only 14 children with holes in the heart turned up at the Uganda Heart Institute when a UK-based charity organisation offered free surgery procedures to correct the defect, leaving the doctors...

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No salary enhancement until after 2021 elections - Muhakanizi

Government will not be in position to meet salary enhancement requirements for public servants in FY 2020/21 due to shortage of funds, ministry of Finance has warned.According to secretary to the...

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Uganda is dead without innovation – Matia Kasaija

“A country that doesn’t innovate as we head into the 4th industrial revolution is a dead one. Uganda should keep pace with the rest of the world in the field of science, technology and innovation to...

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Mayiga: Why local companies collapse

Buganda Kingdom Katikkiro Charles Peter Mayiga used the recent launch of Sekanyolya Systems’ new corporate office at Kingdom mall in Kampala to offer a few tips on how local top-tier businesses can...

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How USMID program has turned around the face of municipalities across the...

Over the past five years, the Uganda Support to Municipal Infrastructure Development (USMID) program has enhanced institutional performance of 14 municipal local governments across the country to...

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Why Mbabaali remains favoured in Bukoto South

As the 2021 general elections draw closer, political forces in the ruling NRM and the opposition are aligning themselves to win seats for parliament. In this week’s edition of 2021 Political Pulse,...

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Balaam to NRM loyalty: Learn to work hard

In a sit-down interview with Baker Batte Lule last week, music promoter and businessman Balaam Barugahara suggested President Museveni was right to appoint musicians Catherine Kusasira, Mark Bugembe...

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Justice Owiny-Dollo spills age-limit ruling secrets

Fifteen months after he led a Coram of five Constitutional court justices to uphold parliament’s removal of the constitutional age limits for presidential aspirants, deputy chief justice Alphonse...

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Panic as former Amama Mbabazi bodyguard stages 'armed' protest

There was commotion in Kampala city center this morning when Christopher Aine, the former bodyguard of the ex-prime minister, Amama Mbabazi staged a protest over being jobless.     Aine, who was...

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Uganda Embassy land in Addis Ababa grabbed

The Uganda Embassy land in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia has been encroached on, according to an internal audit by the ministry of Finance.Uganda was supposed to build its Embassy house and a chancery on the...

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Cameroon youths protest older politicians running for office

YAOUNDE - As Cameroon prepares for local and parliamentary elections, young people have organized protests across the central African state against the aging political leadership. Cameroonian youths...

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