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MOSCOW – The two governments of Uganda and Russia have entered a partnership that will facilitate development and realization of mutually beneficial ...

Uganda's ruling party has endorsed President Yoweri Museveni, 74, as its candidate in 2021 elections, which could see him seek re-election for a sixth term, ...

Pope Francis will not come to Uganda for the climax of the Golden Jubilee celebration of the Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar ...

KAMPALA. The Uganda Marathon is set to take place in Masaka in just over two months. And organisers should have a number of logistics catered for by the ...

Alex Matovu, an Ultimate Frisbee pioneer in Uganda and Director of Activate Uganda, a sports events management company, has been appointed to the Board ...

Uganda's social media tax has proved to be detrimental to both its internet and mobile money sectors. In the three months following the introduction of the levy in ...

Communities clash over natural resources as arrivals from South Sudan and DRC plunder environment for fuel and construction.

Biggest News Source for News in Uganda and the East African Region ,Breaking news in Uganda and Daily news and the latest from Uganda.

Hundreds of Government officials including the Prime Minister, Dr. Ruhakana Rugunda, relatives and friends are gathering at the All Saints Church in Nakasero ...

Within an hour of landing in Nairobi, Kenya in July 2016, Metkel Zerai received word that a *fresh* round of fighting had broken out in Juba, South Sudan.

By Madina Guloba. Uganda is moving ahead full steam to revive its national airline; in February 2019, social media was awash with pictures showing the final ...

Armed men in military fatigue reported to have demanded money from the driver.

Police in Kisoro district has in its custody three men who were arrested at the Uganda – DR Congo border on suspicion that they harboured ill intentions. The trio ...

A study commissioned by Makerere University's Human Rights and Peace Centre (Huripec) has confirmed a long-held suspicion that Uganda is a more ...

A photo of a Ugandan Journalist kneeling down with a microphone while interviewing President Yoweri Museveni's son has left many talking.

This tourism ministry's 'celebratory' Miss Curvy pageant jars with the way we are usually treated in our own country.

Uganda's junior minister for tourism this month sparked controversy by suggesting that curvy women could be promoted as a tourist attraction. Uganda earns ...

The minister for presidency, Esther Mbayo, opens a five-day induction retreat for newly appointed resident district commissioners (RDCs) in Kyankwanzi.

A cheap, origami-like strip of paper accurately detected malaria in 98 percent of cases in a test group of schoolchildren in Uganda. Though paper sensors are ...

Uganda accused the country's biggest telecoms operator, MTN Uganda, on Tuesday of underdeclaring its sales and causing public revenue losses, in a further ...

Half-way through 2018, Uganda introduced a Social Media (OTT) tax which required Ugandans to pay a tax if they wanted to access services such as Facebook, ...

An online petition is calling on Uganda's Ministry of Tourism, Wildlife and Antiquities to scrap its plans for a "Miss Curvy Uganda" beauty pageant.

For close to a decade after their troops clashed in two bloody encounters in the eastern DRC city of Kisangani at the turn of the century, Uganda and Rwanda ...

Media reports last week showed that Rwanda had banned Ugandan imports.

Uganda's president Yoweri Museveni last week promoted his son, Muhoozi Kainerugaba to the rank of Lieutenant General, which is the second highest rank in ...

Only 12 of the 40 initial players summoned by the Uganda Woodball Federation (UWbF) will make the final team at the 2019 World Beach Woodball ...

Top officials from Uganda's ruling National Resistance Movement party have picked incumbent President Yoweri Museveni as candidate for the country's 2021 ...

A committee of Parliament has called for governance reforms at the Central Bank after finding flaws in the way it handled the liquidation and sale of insolvent ...

TEHRAN, Feb. 23 (MNA) – The Ugandan Foreign Minister Sam Kutesa at a meeting with Iranian ambassador in Kampala stressed the willingness of the ...

Pension administrator, Enwealth Financial Services, has expanded its operations to Uganda after being licensed by URBRA.

Ugandan police have issued criminal summons to popular socialite Shanita Namuyimba alias Bad Black for allegedly insulting President Yoweri Museveni on ...

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | One of Kenya's leading independent pension administrators has joined has joined Uganda's pension after being ...

Many settlements facing water shortage due to ongoing drought.

A team of BBC journalists has been freed on bail following their arrest in Uganda. The journalists were looking into the illegal sale of government drugs and ...

The investigation is not restricted to breach of national security as earlier reported.

South Sudan's Football Association (SSFA) has announced that the country's national teams will host all their 2019 international matches in Kampala, Uganda.

A Ugandan minister has warned that online sports betting is causing serious problems.

In 1982, the Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr., an icon of the U.S. civil rights movement, was about to launch a career in politics that would encompass two presidential ...

Health officials battle to stop disease spreading in Kampala slums with lack of toilets and poor sanitation made worse by heavy rains.

I am in a remote part of northern Uganda, where we are officially three hours ahead of the UK, but in reality about five hours behind.

By Kampala Post Reporter KAMPALA. The Uganda Museum has decided to take its milk exhibition across the country in the next three months.

The Ugandan High Commissioner to Rwanda, Oliver Wonekha has Thursday paid a courtesy call on Rwandan Foreign Affairs Minister, Dr. Richard Sezibera.

Gen. Elwelu addressing the troops in Somalia. Courtesy photo. Uganda's Commander of Land Forces, Lt. Gen. Peter Elwelu, made a working visit to Somalia ...

A beauty pageant in Uganda that purports to promote local women's "curves" has outraged critics who say it demeans the dignity of women.

Ugandan Police on Wednesday night arrested three journalists working with the BBC, including their driver, accusing them of illegal possession of drugs.

The Kenya under-19 boys' team will face their arch rivals Uganda on March 17 in their opening match of the ICC Africa 2020 World Cup qualifier in Windhoek ...

Even Uganda will be teaming with more lucrative projects compared to Kenya, valued at Sh550 billion.

Pope Francis who President Yoweri Museveni had invited to attend the Golden Jubilee celebration of the Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and ...

The CECAFA Senior Challenge Cup hosting rights will be returning to Kampala, Uganda after a seven-year hiatus. Uganda last hosted the abovementioned cup ...

With “African Modernism: Architecture of Independence,” Doreen Adengo and her collaborators are highlighting the spirit of postcolonial African identities.

MTN Uganda's spokesperson Justina Ntabgoba says the government had not been given any details of the alleged underreporting of transactions.

Parliament has passed the Minimum Wage Bill, 2015 which seeks to establish a minimum wages advisory board that will determine minimum wages of the ...

Uganda expects to start pumping oil in 2022, later than a previous target for 2021, because of lack of infrastructure and disagreements over taxes and plans with ...

Spells and curses intended to deter police and social workers from investigating were found in her UK apartment, the trial heard.

The Ugandan shilling was stable on Friday on the back of inflows of hard currency from non-governmental organisations and exporters of commodities, traders ...

Ugandan police say the head of telecommunications company MTN Uganda - a unit of South Africa's MTN group - has been deported for national security ...

All they do is accumulate money from Ugandans then ship it out of the country,” president Museveni said.

Ali Alseyed Abdul Jabar is accused of battering Ugandan women who he had allegedly conned of their money in Dubai.

Abazannyi ba ttiimu y'eggwanga the Uganda Cranes bafunye baasi empya egenda okubatambuza ng'eno erimu ebintu eby'enjawulo ebyomulembe. Baasi eno ...

Buganda was supposed to be a transit station, the focus of Catholicism coming to Uganda was the Equatorial Province.

Bobi Wine, whose red beret People Power movement gave the Ugandan government a hard time through 2018. The movement continued its march to what it ...

Brig. Innocent Oula said that the UPDF needs a training of trainers course in civil-military operations and disaster management which will boost the forces ...

Freemuse joins over 100 musicians, writers and artists calling on the Ugandan government to drop a draft law limiting artistic freedom of expression.

MBALE, Uganda (RNS) — During a recent Shabbat *service* here, Rabbi Gershom Sizomu led dozens of worshippers in a prayer for unity. Women sang psalms.

Kampala. The Uganda Episcopal conference yesterday announced that Pope Francis will not attend the July conference of African bishops he had been invited ...

Kampala: Cabinet has finally given government the go-ahead to join the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) , a move it said would improve ...

"We have had discussions over this for two years, we can resolve them whether it is egos or just wishing that things should be bad"

Between 2017 and 2018, the value of formal and informal exports from Uganda to EAC countries rose by 9 per cent from Shs5.1 trillion to Shs5.5 trillion.

Remittances to Uganda last year grew to $1.21 billion, boosted by receipts from labour exports to Middle Eastern countries, which over the years have grown to ...

Uganda's junior minister for tourism this month sparked controversy by suggesting that curvy women could be promoted as a tourist attraction. Uganda earns ...

Researchers at Chester Zoo have captured “momentous” footage of rare giant pangolins, sometimes known as scaly anteaters for their protective armour, ...

Rwanda has described allegations of banning imports of goods from neighboring Uganda as baseless. There have been media reports that Rwanda placed a ...

THE LAST WORD: How institutional independence allowed the central bank to indulge in gross mismanagement and incompetence. THE LAST WORD ...

All signs show Uganda will not take the road less travelled on the question of electoral reforms ahead of the 2021 general elections. It will be the usual business.

INTERNATIONAL – Uganda's economy is expected to grow 6.3 percent in the 2018/19 (Jul-Jun) fiscal year, slightly higher than the 2018 rate, helped by robust ...

Step into a cinema in Uganda's capital and you could watch an action-packed retelling of President Yoweri Museveni's ascent to power. Step outside of it and ...

Police in Uganda have released a team of BBC journalists following their arrest on Wednesday night in the capital, Kampala. The journalists --two Ugandans ...

Infinix Mobile is set to launch its latest flagship smartphone, the Infinix Hot 7 in Uganda.

Moses Kizige says their peace is threatened by armed Pokot and Turkana cattle rustlers.

The number of people using the internet in Uganda has dropped by more than 12 percentage points since July 2018, when the country's so-called “social media ...

English Appeal on Uganda and 3 other countries about Education, Food and Nutrition, Children, Refugees, Epidemic and more; published on 29 Jan 2019 by ...