UFZEPA ran a training session in Kampala to get Free Zone developers and operators up to speed on environmental compliance, with NEMA officials teaching them the rules. Stephen Mutyaba from Mahathi Infra Uganda complained that NEMA's online portal shows applications as active but does not let developers track where things actually stand, and his lakeshore permit has apparently been sitting on someone's desk for three months.
Rebecca Nalumu from UFZEPA said environmental compliance is a statutory requirement and also helps attract better investors. NEMA's Anita Ainomugisha walked everyone through the regulatory framework and stressed that proactive management matters.
Uganda has licensed 43 private Free Zones as of June 2025, with six...
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Trump is ready to hit Rwanda with consequences after Kigali backed rebels who grabbed Uvira, a lakeside city in eastern DRC near the Burundi border. The move breaks the Washington Accords that Trump helped broker, and Rubio posted that America will make sure Rwanda keeps its promises. Mike Waltz told the UN Security Council that Rwanda sent between 5,000 and 7,000 troops into eastern Congo with heavy weapons like artillery and suicide drones, some of which apparently smacked targets inside Burundi.
Deputy Secretary Christopher Landau called the Uvira offensive a massive mistake that kills any chance of US-Rwanda cooperation on regional development. Kigali keeps denying it backs M23 or has boots on...
Museveni told people at State House Entebbe that foreign-backed groups keep trying to stir up trouble in Uganda, but the NRM government has everything locked down to maintain stability. He said these parasite outfits do not contribute to wealth creation and just want violence, which will not fly because the administration has built proper infrastructure for keeping things peaceful. The president spoke at year-end national prayers with First Lady Janet Museveni, warning that troublemakers will face consequences.
He went after sectarianism based on religion or tribe, telling anyone pushing that agenda to basically get lost. Museveni hyped up the Parish Development Model and other programs that supposedly strengthened the economy...
Bulaza village in Kyankwanzi District just got a solar-powered water system that ended decades of people walking crazy distances for dirty water they had to share with cows. The Ministry of Water and Environment teamed up with UK Export Finance and contractor Nexus Green to drop the setup, which feeds clean water to homes, schools, churches, and small irrigation plots across Kigando Sub-county.
Father Leonard Katsigazi from Trinity Primary School said kids used to get endless diarrhea and coughs from drinking swamp water where cattle also drank, and the school stopped spending money on treating waterborne diseases. Councillor Clever Nsenga mentioned his family used to hike 14 kilometers to wetlands for water, and at least four people...
UN chief Antonio Guterres went off on a drone strike that wiped out 30 people in Katila, which is down in South Darfur, about 150 kilometers southwest of Nyala. The attack hit women and kids among the dead, and another strike dropped on Kutum in North Darfur the same day. Guterres called out both the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces for not following international humanitarian rules while the civil war keeps grinding on.
Sudan's mess has been running since April 2023, and drone strikes keep stacking bodies while millions get displaced and famine spreads. The Katila hit went down after RSF grabbed the Heglig oil fields in West Kordofan, with some saying it targeted fighters celebrating, while others claim it...
Rebecca Alitwala Kadaga, who reps Kamuli as an MP and handles East African Affairs, handed out a massive livestock drop at an event in her district. NAGRC&DB came through with 50,000 Kuroiler chickens, 180 purebred grandparent pigs, 185 Kasolwe goats, 500 mineral salt bags for fertility, 20 AI kits loaded with semen, and 20 purebred Jersey bulls. The giveaway hit 139 farmer groups working under Uganda First.
Kasolwe stock farm sits in Kamuli district under NAGRC management, and it's been making waves lately for breeding the Kasolwe brown goat. This goat apparently pops out twins easily, grows fast, and handles rough conditions like a champ. The farm runs a 5MT/hr feed plant that churns out dairy meals, fish feed, goat pellets, and...
Kentucky Republican James Comer is threatening to hold Bill and Hillary Clinton in contempt if they skip live depositions for his Epstein probe, even though he let seven other subpoenaed officials off the hook with just written statements. The Clintons have been trying to dodge an in-person appearance for months through their lawyer David Kendall, who keeps pointing out that Hillary never even flew on Epstein's plane or visited his island. Comer claims they are stonewalling him, but Kendall has sent multiple letters and even met with committee staff to explain why forcing a former president and secretary of state to testify makes zero sense when they have no relevant info.
The whole thing reeks of political theater since every other...
Brown basically nuked the rest of the fall semester after that shooting killed two students and hurt nine others in an engineering building classroom. The school told everyone they could bounce home early for winter break if they wanted, and Provost Francis Doyle said they get that nobody can focus on learning right after something this messed up happens. About 2,000 students got yanked out of campus buildings while hundreds of cops searched for the gunman.
Eight of the injured kids were still in the hospital as of the next morning, and one got released to their family. The campus lockdown got lifted after police grabbed a person of interest. President Christina Paxson mentioned that evacuated students initially got moved to the...
The Palisadian-Post just printed its last issue after nearly a century of covering Pacific Palisades, and the whole thing basically died because the wildfire turned the neighborhood into a ghost town. Owner Alan Smolinisky said the paper lost its entire reader base when thousands of people got displaced, and local businesses that used to advertise either burned down or went broke trying to survive. The paper had about 6,200 subscribers before everything went sideways.
Smolinisky might sell if anyone wants to buy it, but for right now, the publication is done. Former reporter Gabriella Bock said working there was one of her first gigs in journalism, and longtime reader Sue Kohl mentioned the paper had this small-town vibe that made the...
