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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...

International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists: At least 1,623 journalists killed worldwide

Impunity for crimes against journalists – especially the killing of journalists – is a major threat to press freedom worldwide. Over a decade after...

UGANDA COMMUNICATION COMMISSION SHUTS DOWN 11 RADIO STATIONS

The Uganda Communications Commission-UCC has ordered the shutdown of 11 radio stations across the country for operating illegally. The UCC ED, Hon. Nyombi Thembo...

Ugandan Journalists Should Be Patriotic – Ambassador Dickson Ogwang 

Aaron Ainomugisha. Uganda has increasingly become a priority for foreign investors, superpowers and other foreign players undertaking different projects due to different favorable diplomatic...

UMEME CITED IN KABALE JOURNALISTS’ & SOCIAL MEDIA INFLUENCERS’ ARREST AS LOCALS PLAN TO ‘MARCH TO UMEME’ 

Police in Kabale municipality western Uganda have been accused by media rights activists for conniving with UMEME to arrest a group of journalists and...

PROMOTING QUALITY & IMPACTFUL JOURNALISM: Uganda National Journalism Awards 2024 winners

CREDIT – The African Centre for Media-Excellence-ACME.  The winners of the Uganda National Journalism Awards 2024 were announced at a colourful gala held at...

SHRINKING PRESS FREEDOM IN UGANDA: JOURNALISTS DICKSON MUBIRU AND ALIRABAKI SSENGOBA FURTHUR REMANDED

SHRINKING PRESS FREEDOM IN UGANDA. Buganda road court has further remanded two journalists, Dickson Mubiru and Alirabaki Ssengooba to Luzira prison until July 9,...