Tourism board, hotel owners lock horns over new licences
Hotel owners across the country have protested a move by the Uganda Tourism Board to shut down accommodation facilities that are not licensed by the board to operate. The...
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How Rigathi Gachagua reshuffled his chefs to guarantee food safety
Sometime in July, Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua refused to have meals and drinks prepared by state-assigned staff at his official residence in Karen. Instead, Mr Gach...
Using prosthetic bras can boost survivor confidence
More than 80 percent of women seeking treatment for breast cancer in Uganda are diagnosed at a late stage of the disease. According to Global Cancer Statistics 2022, brea...
Am I allergic to watermelon juice?
While travelling recently, I drank watermelon juice that I believe was bad because it caused my face to swell, itch, and made it difficult to breathe for the first time i...
Security alert as Banyala, Mengo loyalists clash over building
Tension is building up in Kayunga District following last Friday’s clash between the Banyala ethnic group and Mengo loyalists after the former seized a building belongi...
Businesses report improved business environment despite rising input costs
The Stanbic Purchasing Managersâ Index indicates that businesses faced high input costs, which impacted the cost of production and profitability in September. Ho...
Govt job renewals will be based on project performance, Ggoobi tells accounting officers
The Ministry of Finance has warned accounting officers to ensure that projects under their ministries, departments, and agencies are executed within set timelines, failur...
The dark side of Uganda's boda boda boom
The number of people who died in traffic incidents in Uganda rose by more than 10 percent in the past decade, despite global road traffic deaths falling by five percent p...
Senegal, Egypt seal finals place but Ghana face uphill battle
A 96th-minute winner from Sadio Mane earned Senegal a 1-0 win over Malawi and a place at the Africa Cup of Nations finals in Morocco next year, but Ghana are in serious d...
42,000 Africans send their names into space
More than 42,000 Africans’ names are in a spacecraft launched from the United States on Monday, destined for a faraway moon called Europa that orbits Jupiter. After a...