Mushroom growers in Kampala metropolitan area have appealed to President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni to assist them acquire a collection centre for easy market access and value-addition materials to enable them increase their income base. Princess Nassolo Pauline, a Senior Presidential Advisor- El
Senegal's slower economic growth, its widening fiscal deficit and a potential delay in International Monetary Fund financing could cloud the outlook ahead of November 17 parliamentary elections, analysts say. President Bassirou Diomaye Faye, just five months into the job, set the stage
According to the National Emergency Coordination and Operations Centre (NECOC), a loose outfit for disaster risk monitoring and profiling, in the Office of Prime Minister (OPM), large swathes of the Mt Elgon ranges are uninhabitable owing to susceptibility to a
The Ugandan government is proposing to create more new cities amid concerns that the nine cities, which were created in 2020, are already crippling financially and operating under numerous challenges.The Constitut
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Civil society organisations under the Uganda Tobacco Taxation Coalition have proposed that government should increase tax on tobacco and related products to 80 percent.The proposal, if implemented, will mean that
OBONGI, Uganda – Police in Obongi district, led by the OC CID detective ASP Isiko Balisanyuka, are currently defying H.E. President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni’s executive order No. 3, which strictly bans the charcoal trade.
A coalition of domestic violence activists under the Women Movement of Uganda has urged government to commit on ensuring protection of females against electoral violence during the 2026 polls.Stella Rose Akut
Police in Kampala have apprehended 30 individuals for engaging in unlawful demonstrations against the construction of the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP).Hundreds of people gathered outside Chinese embassies and financial institutions in 10 countr
I often see commentators say that Uganda will always be here. They indicate that in whatever we do, we should know that the country will out-exist all of us and will be present in future experiences in which we will not participate. This is logically untrue. Uga
With results in from over 60% of polling stations, the ANC had just under 42% of votes, by far its worst result since democratic elections began after the end of apartheid in 1994.
