Some university students from Kenya are going to take part in a big competition called the Global Management Challenge. They will compete against 56,000 other students from 35 different countries. The competition will test their decision-making skills when running a pretend company.
Not only students can join the competition. Young people who don't have jobs and people who already work for companies can also take part. The competition will check how good they are at making choices about important things like strategy, marketing, production, hiring people, and dealing with money.
Doing well in this competition can help young people get jobs at really good companies later on. Asim Shah, who started the Global Management Challenge in...
A woman named Phylis Chepkwemoi will receive 60 million shillings from the government. This money is to make up for the terrible thing that happened to her husband, Gilbert Cherotwo. Back in 2004, some soldiers from the Uganda People's Defense Force (UPDF) hurt Gilbert really badly. They thought he had a gun that he wasn't supposed to have.
Gilbert was working in his garden when 17 soldiers came up to him. They made him sit down and started hitting him with big sticks. They kept telling him to give them the gun, but Gilbert didn't have one. He begged them to stop, but they wouldn't listen. The soldiers took Gilbert to a place called Seredet detach and then to a hospital in Bukwo. Sadly, Gilbert died just a few hours later because he...
The police in Uganda have just released a new report about crime in the country. It shows that overall, crime went down by 4.1 percent in 2024 compared to the year before. However, some types of crime are happening more often, and criminals are getting smarter about how they break the law.
Crimes that involve money, like corruption and robbery, are increasing. There are also more fights over land. These problems show that the government and the police still have a lot of work to do to keep people safe.
Even though some crimes, like sexual violence and domestic abuse, happen a bit less often than before, they are still big problems in Uganda. Murder cases also went down by a small amount, but they remain a serious concern.
Apart from...
The Observer newspaper is sorry to Hon. Kiryowa Kiwanuka, a very important lawyer for the government of Uganda. They wrote a story about him that wasn't true.
In the story, they said that Hon. Kiryowa Kiwanuka was part of a secret plan to get a man named Lawrence Semakula in trouble. Mr. Semakula works for the government, too, in a department that handles money. The newspaper said that Hon. Kiryowa Kiwanuka and some other people wanted Mr. Semakula to be arrested for something bad that happened with a lot of money.
After the story came out, Hon. Kiryowa Kiwanuka wrote a letter to the newspaper. He told them that what they wrote about him wasn't true and asked them to apologize and tell everyone that the story was wrong.
The newspaper...
Donald Trump has been elected president again, and he will be in charge for four more years. Trump often fights with other countries, including some BRICS members like South Africa, China, and India. He uses tariffs, sanctions, and threats against them.
Because of these growing problems, the world needs a new financial system. The U.S. and the G7 countries should not control it. BRICS seems to be the best choice for this change.
BRICS is a group of countries that work together. Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa started it. Since then, five more countries have joined: Iran, Indonesia, Egypt, Ethiopia, and the United Arab Emirates. The group is now called BRICS+. Saudi Arabia said it would join but hasn't done it yet...
The 2025 African Water and Sanitation Congress and Exhibition just ended in Kampala, Uganda. It lasted for five days and brought together over 2,500 people from Africa and other parts of the world. They came to share ideas about how to give everyone on the continent clean water and better toilets by the year 2030. This is an important goal called Sustainable Development Goal 6, or SDG 6 for short.
Right now, many people in Africa don't have clean water to drink or proper toilets to use. In fact, 440 million people, or about 30% of everyone living in Africa, can't get clean water. Even more people, about 779 million, or 52%, don't have good toilets. This is a big problem that needs to be fixed.
At the end of the meeting, the attendees...
Two years ago, something very bad happened at a school called Lhubiriha Secondary School. Bad people came at night and hurt many students. 45 children died, and 11 are still missing. Only 11 children survived.
The school had just opened that year. It gave poor children who were good at sports, music, or school a chance to learn for free. Many families thought this was a great opportunity.
Sanasiyo Mupasula sent his daughter, Roset Masika, to the school. She loved playing football and was so happy to be there. But on June 16, 2023, Sanasiyo's brother woke him up and told him the school was on fire. When Sanasiyo went to the hospital, he found out Roset had died. He was heartbroken.
No one knows exactly how the attack happened. People...
Yusuf Serunkuma Kajura wrote a new book. He often writes for a newspaper called The Observer. His new book discusses how Western countries still take advantage of Africa even though African countries are no longer colonies.
Mr. Serunkuma says that powerful countries like the United States and those in Europe find sneaky ways to control Africa. They use ideas like democracy, human rights, and free markets to trick Africans. But he thinks these ideas actually hurt Africa instead of helping.
The book says that when Western countries give money to Africa, they take back way more than they give. Mr. Serunkuma believes Africa has lost a huge amount of money this way.
He also blames some African leaders. He says they often help Western...
The World Bank wants Uganda to spend more money helping young children. They think this will make Uganda's people smarter and better workers when they grow up.
Most people in Uganda are very young. Half of all Ugandans are children under 18 years old, and only a small number are over 60. The World Bank says Uganda has a big chance to make the country richer if it takes good care of these children.
Mukami Kariuki from the World Bank explained that children's brains grow the most before they turn 3 years old. She said it is very important for babies and toddlers to eat healthy food, see a doctor, and have adults play with them during this time. If children do not get these things when they are very little, it is hard for them to catch...
