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Almost every morning one mother wakes up at 4am to take her preteen daughter to a swim club a stone’s throw from their home in Ntinda. At first, the girl ...

Dozens of elderly clan leaders scampered to hide under a banana plantation as security personnel wrestled Uganda’s former deputy Ambassador to the US, Mr Dickson Ogwang Okul to disarm him ...

Being an innovator is tough, especially in developing countries like Uganda where tech is complex. To build solutions that improve their communities, innovators need a mix of brilliance, grit, and, ...

Many students are not joining vocational schools because they have never received career guidance about such studies at primary and secondary levels, an official from the Petroleum Authority of Uganda ...

Whenever you see soldiers on Uganda’s streets, you know politics is at play. Holding sway in the way we play politics is the army. They are central to the ruling ...

Murmurs filled the lakeside oval in Entebbe on Saturday November 16. Fans and fraternity members, alike, at every corner were whispering to each other that this Cricket Cranes squad might ...

On October 15, 2023, entering Entebbe Town (wait, did I hear it’s now a city?), I ran a red light...right in front of police officers. I had seen them, of ...

It's the Nyege Nyege Festival all over again. Without pandemic-related curbs, this would have been the 10th edition of a festival that kicked off as a celebration of electronic music ...

Ahead of the African Union Heads of State and Government Extraordinary Summit scheduled for January 2025 in Kampala, Uganda’s Agriculture minister has expressed optimism about Africa’s potential to achieve food ...

In what is fast turning out to be a common occurrence in Kampala, it has emerged that a South African businessman lost $311,500 (about Shs1.1b) in a scam allegedly involving ...