Uganda’s avocado sector is booming, with over 47,000 tonnes of avocado produced annually and exports rising sharply to as much as 22,600 tonnes in 2024. Yet, for many households, consumption stops at the pulp, while the peelings go straight into trash. Avocado is one of the most common f
An ex-Museveni minister is dead. Ambassador Kweronda Ruhemba, a former minister in different dockets and as an envoy, in the Yoweri Museveni government, breathed his last on Sunday, 29 March 2026.Former minister Kweronda Ruhemba was pronounced dead at the Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital
Busega-Mpigi Expressway projectKampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Parliament is concerned about the escalating cost of the Busega–Mpigi Expressway with lawmakers questioning how the project’s contract price doubled from the initial Shs547.5 billion to over Shs1.2 trillion.The C
The cross-border heist signifies a new frontier in the evolving nature of financial crime, where digital fraud is increasingly sophisticated, fast-moving and now, transnational. The arrests may mark a breakthrough in the Equity Bank Rwanda probe, but they also expose a deeper reality: in a digita
Katuramu & Company, a surveying firm, has been ordered to pay Centenary Bank Shs 521 million for misleading the bank into extending a loan to a client without conducting proper due diligence on the land offered as security.The case started in December 2021 when Hasifa Namulondo applied
A quiet but significant ripple from the global oil industry is now being felt in Uganda after Vivo Energy Uganda announced plans to sell two of the most strategically located Shell-branded petrol stations in the heart of Kampala.The move comes as the multinational energy giant Shell plc co
The Inspectorate of Government has released a full list of 202 civil servants who are yet to refund over Shs2Billion they misappropriated.The IGG warns in the list last updated today, Monday, March 16, 2026 that the affected civil servants risk prosecution for Abuse of Office and disobedie
New EC Secretary KamugishaA shocking audit into the operations of the Electoral Commission has laid bare a catalogue of financial and administrative failures that have thrown the country’s election managers into fresh controversy.The explosive findings from the latest report by th
So far shs 16 billion has been paid to a brief case firm in Kabale- Mgahinga Road upgradeWhen the government launched the Shs112 billion Kabale–Lake Bunyonyi and Kisoro–Mgahinga road project, it was marketed as a transformative infrastructure investment expected to unlock tourism poten
Police have arrested 14 suspects accused to be part of the gangs robbing boda boda riders and dismantling stolen motorcycles in Kampala.Kampala Metropolitan Police Deputy Spokesperson, ASP Luke Owoyesigyire, confirmed the incidentKampala, Uganda: Police in Kampala Metropolitan South
