Five Congolese Nationals Arrested at Pakwach Checkpoint
Security personnel at the Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) checkpoint in Pakwach have arrested five nationals from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) who were...
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A TURN OF THE TIDE: Uganda Unveils Homegrown Anti-Tick Vaccine in Major Leap for Africa’s Livestock Sector
President Yoweri Museveni commissions the NARO anti-tick vaccine production plant at Nakyesasa, in Wakiso district on 30th April 2026.On April 30th, 2026, Uganda marked a...
Ugandan Scientists Alert, Watch Yet Another Deadly Viral Disease Outbreak in Congo
While Uganda has not yet recorded a case of Hantavirus disease before, scientists have urged the public to be alert warning that the disease-causing rodents and small mam...
Museveni Wants Pay As You Earn on Scientists Scrapped
President Museveni has proposed scrapping Pay As You Earn (P.A.Y.E) tax on scientists, arguing that the move would strengthen Uganda’s research capacity and accelerate...
Museveni To Commission Uganda’s Anti-Tick Vaccine Production
President Museveni is expected to launch the first anti-trick vaccine developed by Ugandan researchers. The new vaccine has been dubbed a game-changer with the ability to...
Museveni Signs Tough New Drug Law As Uganda Cracks Down On Counterfeits & Unsafe Medicines
President Yoweri Museveni has signed into law the National Drug and Health Products Authority Act, 2025, marking a major shift in Uganda’s fight against counterfeit med...
Winners, losers as MPs pass new taxes
Effective July 1, all importers of secondhand clothes will have to pay an extra charge of 30 percent, up from the current 15 percent, should the President sign into law t...
Uganda’s leading biotechnologist, Dr Andrew Kiggundu dead
At the time of his passing, Dr Kiggundu was contributing to national efforts under NARO’s vaccine programme, including work linked to the development of an anti-tick va...
Farmers Urged to Pay Shs8,000 FMD Vaccine Fee to Unlock Export Markets
Rose AdemunFarmers across Uganda have been urged to contribute Shs8,000 per animal towards Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) vaccination, as government intensifies efforts to...
NMS ROT RELOADED! New Report Exposes Drug Delivery Failures, Billions in Expired Medicines & A Brewing Succession War Around Kamabare
A thunderous alarm has been sounded over Uganda’s lifeline for public medicines after the latest report from the Auditor General ripped open the operations of the Natio...