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Uganda's top anti-corruption official has suspended several district leaders over a money scandal. Inspector General of Government Lady Justice Naluzze Aisha Batala ordered the interdiction of Kalungu District's Chief Administrative Officer, Rose Nalumansi. Three other officials are also barred...

A financial cooperative is getting its members ready for the new year. Hijaz Community SACCO held a meeting to reactivate accounts, focusing on what they call sustained transformation. The five-year-old group provides Islamic banking services, aiming to help lower-income people, widows, and...

Officials in Ibanda are cracking down on meat safety before the holidays after a recent anthrax scare. The municipality is tightening rules for slaughtering and selling beef to avoid a repeat of last year, when suspected disease outbreaks ruined Christmas for many. Municipal Veterinary Officer...

A new commander is now leading the Ugandan forces serving in Somalia. Brigadier General Jackson Kayanja took over from Brigadier General Joseph Ssemwanga Musoke during a handover ceremony. The event was overseen by Lieutenant General Kayanja Muhanga, the Ugandan Land Forces Commander. Muhanga...

The head of the taxi operators' group has shot down rumors about replacing all taxis with buses. Rashid Sekindi, who leads the Uganda Taxi Operators Federation, called the stories completely false and meant to scare people. He spoke at a press conference in Kampala. Sekindi said the gossip is...

The company making Uganda's new license plates plans to crank out up to a million of them next year. Officials from the Intelligent Transport Monitoring System, or ITMS, announced this target at an event in Kampala. They handed out a commemorative plate to a motorcycle taxi rider, marking the...

People in Bukina Village are asking for government help, saying tough fishing rules on Lake Victoria are wrecking their lives. The community in Mpigi District relies on catching silver fish and other species from the water. They claim enforcement actions have taken their boats and nets, leaving...

A major pig farming project in southwest Uganda is changing lives across multiple districts. Over one hundred thousand people in the Kigezi area are now involved with an initiative run by the Rukungiri Producer Cooperative Union and the Microfinance Support Centre. The central model farm in...

President Museveni spoke to a group of youth leaders from western Uganda at his Kisozi farm, telling them the country's future requires a major change in thinking. He said young people should stop focusing on hard-to-get government jobs and instead enter fields where they can build wealth. He...

President Museveni told a crowd in Kyotera that his party earns votes through actual results, not just talk. Campaigning for the 2026 election, he presented the NRM manifesto at a rally as proof of decades of work. He stated his party avoids empty pledges, focusing instead on concrete...

Opposition figure Bobi Wine is accusing parliamentary speaker Anita Among of organizing violence against his campaign. The National Unity Platform leader, whose real name is Robert Kyagulanyi, says he has solid info that hired groups will attack his rallies in the eastern districts of Ngora and...

The Ugandan shilling had a very strong run, performing better than most other regional currencies. The Bank of Uganda credited this to bigger export income, more foreign investment, and changes to how the currency market works. In October, the shilling gained over five percent against the US...

Princess Diana Balizzamuggale Teyeggala Ndege has died. The Buganda Kingdom announced her passing after an illness at a hospital in Kisubi. She was 59. As the youngest child of the late Kabaka Muteesa II, she was a sister to the current monarch, Ronald Muwenda Mutebi II. Her mother was Princess...

Uganda's national oil firm just locked down a huge loan for fuel infrastructure. The Uganda National Oil Company, or UNOC, signed deals for up to two billion dollars with Vitol Bahrain. This follows a parliamentary vote letting the company borrow the money over seven years. The cash is for a...

The Ugandan military just graduated a group from advanced combat engineer training. A total of 169 soldiers finished the Basic Combat Engineering Level III Course at the School of Combat Engineers in Kalama, located within Mubende District. The ceremony for this group, labeled Intake 20/25, was...

Ugandan officials said the jailed opposition leader, Kizza Besigye, will stay locked up until his treason trial finishes. This came from a government press event in Rukungiri District, Besigye's hometown, where people have been complaining about his treatment. The Deputy Speaker of Parliament...

This just got spicy. A guy named Lawrence Ampe, freshly fired from the Uganda Prisons Service, announced he is immediately joining the campaign of opposition figure Bobi Wine. The presidential candidate, whose real name is Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, has been doing rallies in the Teso area. Ampe...

A prison officer in Uganda got fired for backing the wrong politician online. Lawrence Ampe, an officer with the Uganda Prisons Service, was dismissed after he posted support for opposition leader Bobi Wine, whose real name is Robert Kyagulanyi, on TikTok and X. Ampe used those posts to accuse...

Uganda's official number plate maker, and a company named Spiro, just threw a little party for a random motorcycle taxi owner in Kampala. The guy got the two hundred thousand and twenty-sixth new plate. They gave him some branded freebies at the Spiro Bond Site. The Intelligent Transport...

The UN Security Council just voted to keep its peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo running for another full year. They renewed the mandate for MONUSCO, which will stay active with its current force size of over eleven thousand military staff and hundreds of police. This...