Broken promises are pushing a crew of NUP defectors in Lango to openly threaten they might bounce on the ruling party.
Ex-NUP backers want their deal honored
Moses Ongwec coordinated roughly twelve aspirants switching to NRM.
Campaign costs, government gigs, and safety were promised.
Ongwec says he burned nearly a billion shillings mobilizing.
Senior NRM figures allegedly keep blocking Museveni's access.
Defectors getting loud about loyalty
Several NRM candidates ran unopposed after NUP withdrawals.
Some defectors are hiding from old NUP associates.
Formal letters requesting a presidential sit-down went out.
Continued ghosting could flip the group's allegiance back.
Uganda's first bone-marrow transplant center is $4 million short of opening its doors, and a coalition just rallied to close that gap.
The Lubowa facility and what it treats
JCRC is building the center in Lubowa, Uganda.
It will handle leukemia, lymphoma, and sickle-cell disease.
Only Kenya has a comparable facility in East Africa.
Dr. Cissy Kityo says infrastructure investment is already substantial.
Funding push and partners involved
Pearl Bank pledged 200 million Ugandan shillings to it.
An online donation portal accepts mobile money and cards.
Rotary Uganda is spearheading the fundraising campaign efforts.
Katikiro Charles Peter Mayiga praised the whole collaboration.
Pearl Bank's rebrand and broader mission
Julius Kakeeto...
Only 4% of women in Karamoja own a smartphone, and that stat basically sums up Uganda's brutal digital-access gap in one number.
Smartphone and mobile ownership breakdown
Just 22% of Ugandan women have a smartphone overall.
Kampala leads with 62% female smartphone ownership.
Rural women lag at 54% for basic mobile access.
Urban women hit 72% on general phone ownership.
Wealth and education drive the divide
Women in the top wealth bracket hit 63% internet use.
Poorest women barely register at 2% for internet access.
Post-secondary educated women reach 80% usage rates.
Women with zero formal education sit at just 3%.
Internet habits across regions
Kampala women log on almost daily at a 71% clip.
Kigezi and Busoga trail badly at 42%...
A Ugandan mayor's lawsuit against Stanbic Bank got tossed out after the bank returned $73,262.50 it had flagged over alleged M23 rebel ties.
Rulinda fires back at M23 allegations
Entebbe Mayor Fabrice Rulinda denies any rebel connection.
He was a private client when the 2017 transactions happened.
Rulinda calls the whole M23 narrative a smear campaign.
Over $496,000 hit his account from Green Global Corporation.
Court case and the bank's move
Stanbic reversed $73,262.50 from his flagged transactions.
The High Court tossed Rulinda's suit and awarded costs.
He argues banks cannot unilaterally play judge on funds.
Rulinda says Stanbic should have sought court intervention.
His stance on banking accountability
Rulinda warns that this...
Captors flat-out told a top opposition leader they knew where she lived and would grab her again if she talked to the media.
Dr. Zedriga breaks her silence
Dr. Lina Zedriga Waru spoke publicly for the first time.
NUP's acting president was snatched in mid-January 2026.
She spent over 40 days locked up before bail.
Gulu Chief Magistrate's Court freed her on February 24.
Threats made during her detention
Captors explicitly warned her against speaking to the press.
They claimed full knowledge of her home and movements.
Zedriga faced incitement-of-violence charges during detention.
NUP links her ordeal to state-sponsored intimidation tactics.
Forgiveness and her path forward
Zedriga says she has forgiven her captors entirely.
She...
A cattle dip tank built back in 1971 just got a full facelift in Kitgum District, and local farmers are already hyped about what it means for their herds.
Renovated dip tank in Kel-Polo Village
Jimmy Akena Foundation restored the old cattle facility.
It targets ticks and livestock diseases in Northern Uganda.
UPC President Jimmy Akena wants farmers to be market-ready internationally.
The original tank went unused since 1987.
Farmers feeling the optimism
Kilama Job Divito says it revives hope for better returns.
Improved animal health should boost overall production.
He thinks it will attract newcomers to cattle keeping.
Local leadership backing it up
Odong Richard Herbert praised the foundation's intervention heavily.
Fencing and...
Premature babies at Uganda's top women's hospital are getting shuttled to other facilities because nobody on staff can even check their eyes.
NICU crisis at Mulago women's hospital
Dr. Sam Ononge says 45% of NICU babies are preemies.
No eye specialist exists to screen these newborns.
Untreated babies risk going permanently blind later.
Transfers to Mengo and Nsambya expose them further.
Staffing stretched dangerously thin
One nurse currently juggles six babies in intensive care.
Ononge says burnout is leading to preventable mistakes.
Surgical cases get rerouted to Mulago National Referral Hospital.
He wants staffing bumped to at least 60% capacity.
Future plans for the facility
A pediatric center is in the works eventually.
IVF...
Equity Group just printed KSh75.5 billion in profit after tax for FY2025, a 55% jump that apparently set a Kenyan corporate record.
Headline financial numbers
Equity Group Holdings posted record-breaking FY2025 earnings.
Profit after tax leapt 55% to KSh75.5 billion.
Total income climbed 12% to KSh217.7 billion.
Their balance sheet swelled 9% to KSh1.97 trillion.
Efficiency and digital dominance
Cost-to-income ratio dropped from 58.2% to 51.0%.
Over 98% of transactions happened outside physical branches.
Digital channels handled 88.4% of all customer activity.
Loan loss provisions fell 28% year over year.
Regional subsidiaries pulling serious weight
DRC profit after tax surged 58% to KSh24.7 billion.
Uganda's earnings exploded...
Floodwaters swallowed a chunk of Jinja Highway near Kyambogo and basically shut down a major route out of Kampala on a Thursday.
Jinja Highway flooding chaos
Heavy rainfall cut off the road near Kyambogo.
Michael Kananura told drivers to find alternate routes.
Some vehicles stalled out in fast-moving muddy water.
Banda, Ntinda, and the Northern Bypass got jammed.
Why Kampala keeps flooding like this
Low-lying corridors like Jinja Highway get wrecked repeatedly.
Wetland encroachment and shoddy drainage worsen the problem.
Stormwater regularly overwhelms the existing drainage system.
Rapid construction keeps making the whole situation worse.
