Inside Uganda’s Boda Boda Road Safety Crisis
They are on the road before dawn and still riding long after dark, threading through Kampala’s gridlocked streets for fares that rarely exceed a few thousand shillings...
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Drivers Urge Government to Improve Roads Before Enforcing Traffic Fines
Drivers and motorists have called on government traffic enforcement teams to consider the condition of roads before imposing fines under the Express Penalty System (EPS)...
Gov’t Targets 30 km/h Zones as Express Traffic Fines Return
Winstone Katushabe, commissioner for road safety at the Ministry of Works and Transport addressing stakeholders on Wednesday in KampalaKAMPALA: Uganda is preparing to rei...
Rebecca Kadaga Calls for Ban on Kenyan Traders Buying Food Directly From Ugandan Farms
KAMPALA, Uganda — First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for East African Community Affairs, Rebecca Kadaga, has called for a ban on Kenyan traders purchasing food di...
Science Teachers On Government Payroll To Earn Shs8 Million A Month As Uganda Moves To Make Teaching One Of Its Best-Paid Professions
For years, Uganda’s brightest university students have steered away from education degrees, gravitating instead toward medicine, law, and engineering — courses percei...
Kikuube’s deadly gold mining site
A section of Kikuube district residents are demanding quicker interventions by the authorities as their lives remain at risk.These fears stem from the death of four at an...
BIG INTERVIEW: Boda-bodas will be reduced in the city under new transport plan - Gen Katumba
'Boda-bodas have provided employment. If tomorrow we decided to remove them, what would happen to the young men who depend on them? Each rider supports several people. So...
Mbarara Traders Cry Blood as City Crackdown Leaves Thousands Homeless, Goods Seized in Ruthless Town Clean-Up
Tears, anger and desperation have engulfed the streets of Mbarara after a sweeping city council operation to restore “order” turned into a full-blown eviction storm...
NRM Henchman Warns M7, Wife Janet On Attending Endless 2026 Election Victory Celebrations Parties…
National Resistance Movement (NRM) political activists who also double as the chairperson of the children and grandchildren of the 1981 war veterans in the Luwero Triangl...
MPs urge caution as government moves to ban old taxis
A number of legislators have expressed mixed reactions to a government proposal to phase out old taxis from Kampala and other urban roads, as authorities push to improve...