MOMBASA, Kenya – Uganda’s tea sector is showing renewed signs of recovery, with auction prices rebounding 21% and absorption rates strengthening.Sector players say this offers cautious optimism to growers and processors after years of volatility. Data from the Mombasa tea auction indic
The Committee is also concerned that disbursement is performance-linked, meaning that continued slow progress will directly reduce KCCA's access to programme funds and jeopardise the broader metropolitan development objectivesParliament’s Committee on Physical Infrastructure has raise
Kampala, Uganda | JULIUS BUSINGE | In the quiet hours of April 11, at exactly 02:20am East African Standard Time, Muhoozi Kainerugaba, the Commander of the UPDF and Senior Presidential Advisor on Special Operations, dropped a message that would ripple across Uganda’s governance and infrastructu
Eight ministers may face the knife over the raging Kinyara Sugar Limited and Victoria Sugar war, a battle of World War II magnitude that has rocked the sugar sector and left political heavyweights bruised, exposed, and fighting for survival as a looming cabinet reshuffle casts a long shadow over
Ms. Jackie Namutebi, an official from the Microfinance Support Centre, has challenged leaders of Emyooga SACCOs to focus on improving their SACCOs in order to achieve the presidential vision of fighting poverty in Uganda.She stressed the importance of increasing savings in these SACCOs and
A dispute over a multi-billion shilling electricity metre tender has collapsed after the PPDA Appeals Tribunal dismissed a case filed by Uzuzi Meter Technologies Limited against Uganda Electricity Distribution Company Limited (UEDCL).In a ruling delivered on April 2, 2026, the Tribunal did
Over 127 students at Makerere University’s College of Veterinary Medicine, Animal Resources and Biosecurity (CoVABs) have gone for more than a month without lectures — and despite petitioning the university administration at least six times, they are yet to receive a single response.Th
Kampala, Uganda — Muhoozi Kainerugaba has stated that all road construction contracts in Uganda will now require his personal approval, a directive he announced through his official social media account.In a post on X (formerly Twitter), Muhoozi said the decision was final and would not
Court heard that between July 2022 and April 2023, the accused fraudulently obtained USD 286,910 (approximately Shs1.1 billion) from Qatar-based investors under the guise of securing a government contract.Businessman Gilbert Tumwebaze Bafanabyo walks handcuffed from Anti-Corruption Court i
Leon Goretzka is expected to depart Bayern Munich once his contract runs out at the end of the 2025/26 campaign, marking the conclusion of eight years with the Bundesliga powerhouse.The German midfielder initially arrived from Schalke 04 on July 1, 2018, putting pen to paper on a four-year
