The water levels of Lake Victoria – that the locals call Lake Nalubale – have risen dramatically in recent years, displacing communities, destroying livelihoods, and causing ecological damage – yet public awareness and policy responses remain weak.Despite an article in the New Vision
Jinja – The arrest of a prominent Jinja-based investor by the National Environment Management Authority (NEMA) has been met with relief and celebration among residents, who say the businessman had long intimidated local leaders while allegedly boasting of powerful connections that placed him ab
JUganda’s environmental watchdog has sent a strong warning to developers after the arrest of prominent Jinja businessman Magan M. Patel over alleged illegal encroachment on the Bugembe wetland, a critical ecosystem along the Jinja–Iganga Highway.The National Environment Management Auth
A team from the China-Uganda Mbale Industrial Park briefs President Museveni and First Lady Janet Museveni. Far right is Luke Wang, Managing Director, Tian Tang Group, and Lucy Zhang, Group CEORWAKITURA, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Museveni has approved a proposal to estab
Sometime back, on a flight to Tanzania, I found myself on neighbouring seats with a son of a senior politician in the National Resistance Movement.He spoke English with an accent, which meant international training. But you could tell he had formed his early childhood in the not-so-posh Ka
The monarch, in his message for Christmas 2025 and the New Year 2026 which began with traditional gratitudes for the prayers and love of his subjects, quickly pivoted to a stern rebuke of the current political environment. His Majesty the Kabaka of Buganda, Ronald Muwenda Mutebi II, has is
President Yoweri Museveni is expected to meet a section of downtown Kampala traders later this week at his Kisozi country home, following renewed appeals over compensation for losses caused by the Nakivubo drainage channel floods.According to sources, the President directed his aides to or
The High Court Civil Division has set 19th November, 2025 as the date to begin hearing a public interest case filed against President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, the Attorney General, businessman Hamis Kiggundu, and several government agencies over the controversial development works on the Nakivubo
Ham Enterprises continue to erect structures near Nakivubo channel despite an order from KCCA to stop the worksKampala — A confidential Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) report seen by ChimpReports has blamed illegal construction and regulatory failures for the deadly floods that swe
Russian authorities in a city bordering Ukraine are struggling to cope with an outbreak of mass larceny, as panic spreads through the population. Belgorod lies just 40 kilometres north of the border with Ukraine and has reluctantly found itself in the eye of a storm, ever since Vladimir Putin lau
