‘I don’t want to be president.'
While the presidency is a coveted position, its allure has put prospective suitors in sharp focus of succession battles in the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) p...
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Kampala Floods Are Not Natural—They Are a Governance Failure, Says Road Safety Official
Kampala’s recurring floods are a governance failure rather than a natural disaster, according to senior road safety official Ronald Amanyire, who has warned that c...
Kayunga Roads Submerged as Leaders Blame Environmental Degradation
Leaders in Kayunga District have raised concern over worsening environmental degradation, warning that continued destruction of wetlands and forests is fuelling flooding...
Fairway Hotel, Kampala downtown flooded after afternoon downpour
A heavy Thursday afternoon downpour flooded Fairway Hotel and several parts of downtown Kampala, disrupting businesses and exposing the city’s drainage challenges...
Makerere Lecturer Gets NDA Approval for His Ulcer Drug
A Makerere University pharmacy lecturer has done something Uganda’s pharmaceutical sector has been waiting for someone to do for a long time — taken traditi...
In pictures: Musician Spice visits Bulange Mengo to celebrate Ugandan cultural tourism.
At a ceremony held in her honour at Bulange, Spice was bestowed the Kiganda clan name Nankula, placing her within the Enkula (Rhino) clan of Buganda Kingdom, a deeply sym...
7,000 Nakasongola households yet to vacate Lake Kyoga buffer zone
More than 7,000 households in Nakasongola District remain within the newly demarcated Lake Kyoga buffer zone, two years after the government issued a six-month eviction n...
Billionaires in the making’: Lira’s idle heirs living off parents’ wealth
Lira City is sheltering a peculiar breed of youngsters, calling themselves "Billionaires in the Making". They are the sons and daughters of the wealthy, living life as if...
Corpse Flogged After 'Refusing' to be Transported for Burial
Attributing repeated vehicle breakdown to supernatural issues, the funeral party placed the coffin down and gave it a whipping | Zainab Musaasizi SsengendoA family transp...
Iranian supertanker 'HUGE' bypasses US blockade with USD 220 million oil cargo, says TankerTrackers
In a post on X, the monitoring firm identified the vessel as "HUGE" and noted that it was last spotted off the coast of Sri Lanka more than a week ago. The tanker is curr...