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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...

IPI’S LOCAL NEWS ACCELERATOR PROGRAMME 2023: MEDIA CAN’T BE IMPACTFUL WITHOUT BEING PEOPLE-CENTRED

RISE NEWS UGANDA NETWORK is a local media network based in western Uganda, that also feeds other on air and online outlets locally and...

WESTERN UGANDA: Kabale journalists decry intimidation by LCV Chairman Nelson Nshangabasheija

Aaron Ainomugisha. Kabale-based journalists in Kigezi sub region western Uganda have decried continued intimidation by the Kabale district LCV Chairman, Nelson Nshangabasheija. The journalists on...

THE DIGITAL ERA & CIVIC ENGAGEMENT: COMMISSIONER CRISPIN KAHERU ON OPPORTUNITIES & DISPARITIES

Article by Hon. Crispin Kaheru, Commissioner Uganda Human Rights Commission-UHRC, on the impact of today’s digital era/online spaces. The world has commemorated the International...

88.3 ENDIGYITO FM SWITCHED OFF WHILE HOSTING NUP PARTY PRESIDENT BOBI WINE

Media and political activists in Mbarara city and other parts of western Uganda have expressed concern over the narrowing freedom, accusing the Uganda Communications...

3 ARMED ROBBERS STORM MWINJOYO FM STUDIOS IN NAKURU KENYA,PRESENTERS ROBBED LIVE ON AIR

Kenyan police and other security agencies in Kenya are investigating circumstances under which three armed robbers stormed Nakuru-based gospel radio station Mwinjoyo FM studios...

ACME confirms new partners for the Uganda National Journalism Awards 2022 

The African Centre for Media Excellence-ACME has confirmed its new partners supporting the Uganda National Journalism Awards-UNJA 2022, with the awards gala slated for...