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Preserving Heritage,Transforming Communities as Kabale Hosts Uganda’s International Museum Day 2025 Celebrations

Uganda is set to mark International Museum Day (IMD) 2025, with national celebrations in Kabale Municipality this Sunday, May 18, 2025. The Ministry of Tourism, Wildlife, and Antiquities, last month...

RELIGIOUS EXTREMISM: Is Apostle Grace Lubega using Phaneroo Ministries Ugx200 Billion Complex Project to Clear over Ugx10 Billion Loan?

INSIDE STORY.  As the controversies that Apostle Grace Lubega, founder of Phaneroo Ministries International planning to build a...

$840,000 Gold Scam: Stanbic Bank, Uganda Law Society President Isaac Ssemakadde, his firm Maxim Advocates and Partner Sheila Namahe Implicated

New evidence has emerged contradicting earlier statements made by prominent lawyers Sheila Namahe Wagidoso and Isaac Ssemakadde, who...

UGANDA’S PUBLIC DEBT HITS UGX106 TRILLION

Uganda’s public debt has climbed to Shs106 trillion (approximately $29 billion), indicating an increase of Shs12 trillion in...

ARE LABOUR REFORMS POSSIBLE IN UGANDA?

President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has hinted at possible significant reforms in Uganda’s labour sector. He said the government is...

HOW CORRUPTION & POLICY GAPS ARE HINDERING THE RESTORATION OF RIVER RWIZI 

BY AARON AINOMUGISHA. Environmentalists and other concerned stakeholders in Mbarara city western Uganda have attributed the terrible pollution choking River Rwizi to corruption, connivance...

ANGRY RIVER RWIZI SWALLOWS 2ND YEAR MEDICAL STUDENT AND 2 OTHERS

Fear has engulfed the locals around River Rwizi and other people who cross it daily in Mbarara city and surrounding areas. This follows last week’s...

CHOKING BIODIVERSITY: AT LEAST 18 PEOPLE KILLED IN 1 WEEK AS FLOODS & MUDSLIDES RAVAGE WESTERN UGANDA

It is yet another eye-opener that the escalating deforestation, wetland degradation, illegal or poorly-regulated mining and other activities choking biodiversity are triggering disasters due...

REMOVE YOUR TELECOM MAST NOW NOW: Mbarara district leaders to the East African Procurement News Company boss Robert Rukaari

The Mbarara City North legislator Robert Mwesigwa Rukaari who doubles as Chairman of the East African Procurement News Company Limited - a sister company of...

EARTH DAY 2023: UN SECRETARY GENERAL ANTONIO GUTERRES WANTS EVERYONE TO RAISE THEIR VOICES

Mr. Antonio Guterres, the United Nations secretary-general, says everyone needs to raise their voices to demand that leaders make peace with nature. In a video message to...

16 PUPILS RUSHED TO THE HOSPITAL,PROPERTIES DESTROYED AS HAILSTORM HITS PARTS OF WESTERN UGANDA

Monday, February 27, 2023 was a normal day, until the sky released terrible hailstorm from afternoon till late night in different parts of western Uganda. In...