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Forgotten 'weeds' prove a culinary hit in Kenya

Forgotten 'weeds' prove a culinary hit in Kenya

 Once dismissed as wild weeds and a "poor man's food", indigenous leafy vegetables in Kenya are now becoming much more common - grown on farms, sold in markets and gracing the menus of restaurants.At the busy Skinners Restaurant in Gachie just outside the capital, Nai

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Tooro Kingdom, Reach A Hand Empower Youth at Annual Leadership and Cultural Conference

Tooro Kingdom, Reach A Hand Empower Youth at Annual Leadership and Cultural Conference

Tooro Kingdom, in partnership with Reach A Hand Uganda (RAHU), held the Tooro Annual Youth Conference at the kingdom headquarters in Fort Portal.The high-impact gathering, themed “We Lead: Cultural Voices Driving Change,” brought together hundreds of young people from across the K

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Museveni Calls for Household Census in Kampala to Improve PDM Budgeting

Museveni Calls for Household Census in Kampala to Improve PDM Budgeting

President Museveni has directed local authorities in Kampala’s five divisions to conduct a thorough household census to guide equitable allocation of funds under the Parish Development Model (PDM).The directive came during his visit to Kyambogo Complex Parish in Nakawa Division on S

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Barnabas Taremwa: Global Cartels Behind Uganda’s Coffee Losses

Barnabas Taremwa: Global Cartels Behind Uganda’s Coffee Losses

Fellow Ugandans, especially our coffee farmers and those aspiring to join the coffee industry,I feel compelled to share some truths and clarify the situation regarding coffee farming in Uganda and the dynamics of the global coffee market.This is a

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Rotary Brings Clean Water and Hygiene Education to Bugonga Primary School on Day Two of Seven Days of Service

Rotary Brings Clean Water and Hygiene Education to Bugonga Primary School on Day Two of Seven Days of Service

As part of the ongoing Seven Days of Service campaign, the Rotary Club of Kansanga and the Rotaract Club of Bunga on Tuesday led a powerful Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) intervention at Bugonga Primary School in Entebbe.The day focused not only on improving access to clean water bu

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UEDCL Schedules Saturday Power Outage for Grid Maintenance in Central Uganda

UEDCL Schedules Saturday Power Outage for Grid Maintenance in Central Uganda

The Uganda Electricity Distribution Company Limited (UEDCL) has announced a planned power outage across parts of Central Uganda on Saturday, July 5, 2025, to allow for critical maintenance and upgrade works by the Uganda Electricity Transmission Company Limited (UETCL).The blackout will la

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NARO Unveils Breakthrough Aflasafe Solution to Combat Aflatoxins in Ugandan Cereals

NARO Unveils Breakthrough Aflasafe Solution to Combat Aflatoxins in Ugandan Cereals

Scientists at the National Agricultural Research Organisation (NARO) have developed a groundbreaking innovation dubbed “Aflasafe” to combat the rising threat of Aflatoxins—naturally occurring toxins caused by fungi that pose serious health risks and are increasingly

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Uganda’s Carbon Market Faces Global Scrutiny Amid Activist Calls at Bonn Summit

Uganda’s Carbon Market Faces Global Scrutiny Amid Activist Calls at Bonn Summit

BONN, Germany — Climate activists and health experts at the Bonn Climate Summit have called on global governments to take a decisive stand against fossil fuels and loosely regulated carbon markets, warning that failure to act could worsen both environmental degradation and public health outcome

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What happens during a water cremation?

What happens during a water cremation?

Officially known as water cremation or alkaline hydrolysis, the process involves rapidly decomposing a corpse in water and alkaline chemicals under high temperatures in a big steel vessel (pictured) 

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After years of warnings, brown rice still contains this toxic metal. Why it’s there—and how harmful it is

After years of warnings, brown rice still contains this toxic metal. Why it’s there—and how harmful it is

For years, experts have sounded alarm bells over arsenic levels in brown rice.New research has found that brown rice has a higher concentration of 

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