The schools in Uganda tested their students in a new way this year. Some students took the old test for the last time, and others took a brand new test that helped them learn better things. Many young people took these tests. There were more girls than boys who wrote the tests.
The person in charge of testing, Mr Dan Odongo, said most students did well. They learned good things in subjects like Art, History, and Math. The students had some problems with Science and English. When they did science experiments, many students found it hard to understand what they needed to do. In English class, many students needed help using better words and writing better summaries.
Teachers caught some students cheating on their tests. This happened...
A smart doctor from Uganda named Matthias Magoola made something amazing to help people with cancer. The United States gave him a special paper on February 6, 2025, saying his idea belonged to him. Dr Magoola runs a company that makes medicine, and he wants to build a big place near Kampala where they can make lots of helpful drugs.
Dr Magoola found a clever way to fix the bad parts inside cancer cells. He uses tiny messengers that can find these bad cells and stop them from growing. This makes the cancer cells die without hurting the good cells in someone's body. Other cancer treatments can make people feel very sick, but Dr Magoola's way might not do that.
The doctor talked about his discovery on February 9, 2025. He said everything...
Some people think Mr Semakula did something bad with the bank's money. They say he helped steal sixty billion shillings by sending it to strange places in Japan and England. But many people believe this might not be true.
When the money went missing in September 2024, Mr Semakula was on holiday. Another person named Jennifer was doing his job. People wonder why everyone blames Mr Semakula when he was not even at work.
Mr Semakula knew some people wanted to make him look bad. He wanted a new job as the person who checks all the government's money. The big boss of money, Mr Kasaija, said Mr Semakula would be good at this job. Two other countries wanted to give him important jobs because he worked hard and never did anything wrong.
The...
The government of Uganda wants to build better homes for people who live in poor areas around the country. They need more than one trillion shillings to make this happen. Judith Nabakooba, who helps run the country, shared these plans at a special meeting last week.
Mrs Nabakooba said they talked about new ways to help people have nice homes. She wants to ask for money next year to build these houses. The country needs many new homes because many people live in unsafe or uncomfortable places.
The plan will also help people who work for the government. Many teachers and other workers find it hard to live near their jobs because they cannot find good houses they can afford, which makes it hard for them to do their jobs well.
A man...
The people who helped run Uganda met at the president's house on February 7, 2025. They decided to take back a paper that would change the rules about the army courts. They made this choice because the biggest court in Uganda said army courts cannot judge normal people anymore.
The biggest court said army courts must only deal with soldiers. One very smart judge named Catherine said these army courts are not fair when they try to judge normal people. She thinks normal courts should handle cases when soldiers do bad things to normal people.
President Museveni felt sad about what the big court said. He thinks army courts help keep Uganda safe. He asked his helpers to write new rules that might change what the big court decided. The...
A lawyer named Erias Nalukoola Luyimbazi will run for parliament in a place called Kawempe North. His party, the National Unity Platform, picked him to be their main person in the race. The party leaders chose him on Tuesday at their big office in Kavule, near Makerere.
Last week, Luyimbazi met with nine other people who wanted the same job. They all talked about what they would do to improve Kawempe North. Two smart people named Andrew Karamaji and Dr. Judith Nalukwago helped them have a nice talk about their ideas.
The people need a new person in parliament because their old leader, Muhammad Ssegirinya, died on January 9. Many different people wanted this job. One of them worked with Mr Ssegirinya before he died. A special name...
Donald Trump signed a paper saying America will stop using paper straws. He wants everyone to use plastic straws instead.
Last year, Joe Biden made a plan to remove plastic from government places. He wanted people to use things they could reuse or turn into dirt, and he hoped to make this happen by 2027.
Trump thinks paper straws are bad. He says they break easily and might contain harmful chemicals. He pointed out that paper straws cost more money than plastic ones. People often need many paper straws because they fall apart. He also noticed something funny—paper straws come wrapped in plastic.
"This makes no sense. We will go back to plastic straws," Trump said when he signed his new rule. He told government workers to stop buying...
Yesterday, the leader of Uganda's lawyers, Isaac Ssemakadde, got into a big argument. He now faces three different problems in court.
Some lawyers are angry because Mr. Ssemakadde kicked two important people out of their group last year. These people were the Attorney General and another important lawyer. The lawyers say he should not have done this without asking everyone first. The court was supposed to look at this case, but they needed a new judge because the old one moved to a different court. They will meet again on March 17, 2025.
Mr. Ssemakadde made another group of people upset when he wrote mean things on the internet about a judge. The judge had stopped a meeting where lawyers were going to pick new people to help choose...
Rwanda's leader Paul Kagame says he will not back down when other countries tell him what to do. He wants to protect Rwanda first, even if big countries like America and those in Europe want to punish him.
These countries are angry because they think Rwanda helps fighters called M23 in a nearby country named Congo. They want to stop giving Rwanda money and help until Rwanda changes what it does. But Kagame says he needs to keep his country safe.
Kagame talked about hard times Rwanda went through long ago. He told a story about a brave old woman who stood up to bad people during a very sad time in 1994. He says this shows how Rwanda stays strong when others try to make them afraid.
Kagame also said mean things about Congo's leader...
