Mobile money taxes reversing digital financial inclusion in Uganda
Uganda’s mobile money tax policy is threatening to reverse years of digital financial inclusion by driving low-income users back to cash. With 43 million accounts...
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US Authorizes Military Cooperation with DRC
President Félix Tshisekedi with Trump in December 2025Washington has lifted key restrictions on military assistance to the Democratic Republic of Congo, paving the way...
Gov’t Sets Commencement Date for Cattle Restocking in Teso, Lango, Acholi Regions
John Kalule, the Commissioner for Monitoring and Evaluation in OPM speaking with Amuria Assistant RDC Proscovia Arongo after the district Baraza. Credit by Delux Emmy Alo...
Africa’s one-dose cure brings sleeping sickness elimination within reach
SPECIAL REPORT | BIRD AGENCY | Africa’s long battle against sleeping sickness may be approaching its final chapter as a new single-dose therapy gains international...
Rakai RDC Sarah Kiyimba Takes on Land Grabbers, Eyes Bigger Role in Yoweri Kaguta Museveni’s Next Government
RAKAI — In a region long plagued by bitter land wrangles and fraud, the Resident District Commissioner (RDC) of Rakai, Sarah Kiyimba, has emerged as one of the mos...
MPs warn it could take 48 years to clear Uganda’s Shs8.4t domestic arrears
Appearing before Public Accounts Committee of Parliament, Ramathan Ggoobi, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Finance, and Secretary to the Treasury.Parliament has been tol...
IT'S NOW SERIOUS: Panic As 448 University Students In Mbarara Get Infected With HIV in 2025
At least 448 youths aged between 15 and 24, many of them university and tertiary institution students, were newly infected with HIV in 2025 in Mbarara City, raising fresh...
Kiryandongo Deputy CAO hands over office after transfer to Kisoro
Outgoing Kiryandongo Deputy CAO Deo Kabugo (R) hands over office instruments to Principal Assistant CAO Denis Dacan during a ceremony at the district headquarters.Kiryand...
UPC’s Jimmy Akena Rejects Lumu’s Administration of Parliament Amendment Bill
Jimmy Akena Obote, President of the Uganda People’s Congress (UPC), has firmly rejected the controversial Administration of Parliament (Amendment) Bill, 2024, desc...
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...