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A man named Elias Nalukoola from the National Unity Platform party has a big problem. He says someone took his helper away and stole his important papers. He needed these papers to join a special vote for the Kawempe North area. Nalukoola stood outside the voting office looking very upset. He...

Joseph Kony's family returned to Uganda from the Central African Republic yesterday. The family includes his wife, Ruth Achan, and their children, Maisa Amu, Betty Akidi, and Pope Kony. Uganda's Minister Kenneth Omona met them at Entebbe Airport early in the morning. The family will live in...

Today, people started the 12th Kabaka birthday run in Kampala, which happens every year. Many people from the Buganda Kingdom and Airtel Uganda came to the event at the kingdom's main place in Mengo. The run will happen on April 6. Everyone will celebrate Kabaka Ronald Muwenda Mutebi II's 70th...

Ugandan Officials Push for Hospital Upgrade and Road Development in Sheema. Sheema District leaders have urged President Museveni to upgrade Kitagata Hospital to a regional referral facility and tarmac the Bwizibwera-Kabwohe-Kitagata road during his recent Parish Development Model assessment...

People think Zimbabwe will grow very fast this year. The African Bank says Zimbabwe's money will grow by 5.3 percent, making It one of the fastest-growing places in Africa. The money person in Zimbabwe, Professor Mthuli Ncube, thinks it will grow even more by 6 percent. Other places like Niger...

The Government keeps looking into the big accident that happened on February 14 on the Masvingo-Beitbridge Highway. Twenty-eight people died when a bus crashed into a truck near the Lutumba tollgate in Beitbridge. The Government stopped Urban Connect buses from running after finding out they...

The Harare City Council wants to make a new computer system for people waiting for houses. This will stop bad things from happening inside their offices. The Mayor of Harare, Jacob Mafume, told everyone about this at a meeting at the Town House today. Mayor Mafume said this new computer system...

The Zimbabwe rugby community is very sad because Aaron Jani has died. He was 55 years old. Aaron died on Wednesday because of cancer in his body. He had been sick for almost ten years. "He had not been feeling well for a long time," said Losson Mtongwiza, who is the boss of Zimbabwe Rugby. "He...

The Pan African Parliament, also known as PAP, is very sad because a great man from Namibia has died. His name was Sam Nujoma, and he was the first President of Namibia. He passed away on February 8 in his country at the age of 95. Chief Fortune Charumbira, who is the president of PAP, said...

The Senate has decided to change how long Gloria Orwoba, a Nominated Senator, will be suspended from the Senate and Parliament. Instead of being suspended for 79 days, she will only be suspended for 30 days. Aaron Cheruiyot, the Senate Majority Leader, said they made this decision because...

Some people from Kenya were attacked near the border of Kenya and Ethiopia. It happened in a place called Todonyang. The attack was very serious, and now some Kenyans are missing. The Kenyan government is working hard to find them. Kipchumba Murkomen, an important leader in Kenya, said that...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...