Kampala Lord Mayor Erias Lukwago has asked the Inspector General of Government (IGG) to make public the findings of the Kiteezi garbage heap disaster, which led to the sacking of top executives of Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA). President Museveni on September 24 fired KCCA Execu
A summary report of the Inspector General of Government (IGG) Beti Kamya shows that Ms Dorothy Kisaka, the sacked executive director of the Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA), was fired by President Museveni for mainly four reasons. According to the summary report that this publicatio
Contributors to the National Social Security Fund (NSSF) will receive 11.5 percent interest they earned this year, Finance minister Matia Kasaija announced Thursday. "As per Section 36(2) of the NSSF Act (Cap 230), for the Financial Year 2023/24, I declare an interest rate of 11.5 percen
Kampala’s abattoirs are grappling with significant sanitation challenges that raise concerns about public health and safety. Uganda Meat Packers Limited (City Abattoir), one of the oldest and largest slaughterhouses in Kampala, illustrates the dire conditions faced by slaughter facilities in the c
U.S. President Joe Biden announced on Tuesday the donation of 1 million mpox vaccine doses and at least $500 million to African countries to support their response to the outbreak. Biden made the announcement at the United Nations General Assembly in New York, and called on other countri
Ugandan farmers and exporters have been urged to adopt a new digital traceability system, to enhance the tracking of fresh produce from farms to Entebbe International Airport. The developers of the system, Re-engineering of Uganda's Sanitary and Phytosanitary Inspection of Horticulture E
Iganga-based Busoga University is conducting lectures despite the revocation of its licence seven years ago, Daily Monitor has learnt. The University, which was founded in 1999, had its licence revoked in 2017 by the National Council for Higher Education (NCHE) for allegedly lacking qu
Resty Namata began her career at Kiteezi Landfill as a sorter earning about Shs7,000, and eventually advanced to a picker, earning at least Shs10,000 daily. But more than half of the workers are women, who turn to this refuge to cope with socio-economic challenges."We are 600 women out of ab
Moses Lokiru, Moroto – The mineral inspector of Karamoja, Mr. Gerald Eneku, is currently facing intense threats to his life from police officers attached to the mineral unit in Karamoja. On Sunday, Mr. Eneku narrowly escaped an assassination attempt by disgruntled mineral police officers wh
Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital (MRRH) administration and local legislators have today welcomed a team of Uganda’s finest surgeons and health professionals for a highly anticipated surgical camp starting tomorrow, September 22nd, and running until the 28th. Dubbed the Ankole Surgical Camp, this
