Vandals, inside theft and ageing grid damn UETCL
The amount of money that the Uganda Electricity Transmission Co Ltd (UETCL) spends to transmit electricity has significantly risen due to an ageing grid, a 2023 value-for...
News discovery
Find the stories that matter to you.
Results for
3,169 found
“like”
More boys facing violence in refugee settlements
A recent study reveals a troubling rise in violence against nearly half of children and youth in Uganda's refugee settlements, with boys increasingly becoming victims. Th...
Only a Shimoni OB or OG can save Kampala
But some freshers! What is taking you to the library in these first weeks?There was a time things worked well in Kampala. As a school child, you could get away with every...
The new plot to earn you aura points in Kampala
Sunday in Uganda was always the day when people repented of their sins and called the week, a week. On this day, we would raise our hands in the air, chant out lines such...
Proposed five new cities to come with a hefty price tag
The Ugandan government is proposing to create more new cities amid concerns that the nine cities, which were created in 2020, are already crippling financially and operat...
WHO clears Bavarian Nordic's vaccine as first shot against mpox
The World Health Organization said on Friday it had cleared Bavarian Nordic's BAVA.CO mpox vaccine, the first such shot to be approved by the agency for containing the sp...
About 100 school-going children stranded after Kiteezi disaster
About 100 children, who were victims of the Kiteezi landfill garbage collapse that killed over 35 people, are still stranded with no basics and fees with the final third...
The rising sickle cell disease burden
Tracy Katusiime, 22, a teacher from Wakiso District was born with sickle cell disorder. She says she takes at least two different types of medicines every day to manage t...
John Mutebe: Need to Empower Women WASH Entrepreneurship in Uganda
The duty to provide water and sanitation services in a home, has traditionally been a preserve for the woman in a family. Daily chores include water collection, sanitatio...
President Museveni Lauds Late Gen. Aronda Nyakairima for The Transformative Voter Identification System
President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has praised the late Gen. Aronda Nyakairima for his transformative impact on Uganda’s voter identification system, which has been a cor...