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President Mnangagwa thinks Africa needs to spend more of its own money to fight diseases like cholera, pox, and Marburg. He discussed this at a major health meeting yesterday. Zimbabwe wants to help make people healthier. President Mnangagwa said his country would spend more money on doctors...

President Mnangagwa leads the SADC group of African countries. He will join other African leaders at a big meeting today at the African Union, which brings together leaders from all across Africa. South Africa's president, Cyril Ramaphosa, invited President Mnangagwa to have breakfast with...

Two buses crashed into each other on the big road between Harare and Masvingo. One bus was carrying students from Glen View 2 High School. The other bus belonged to a company called Mandaza. The accident happened near Beatrice. The police came right away to help. They are looking into what...

The UDA party wants everyone to know something important about who leads Kenya's National Assembly. They say their group, Kenya Kwanza, has more members than any other group. Hassan Omar, an important person in UDA, explained that people were saying wrong things about the High Court's decision...

The Rotary Club of Kibuli-Kampala wants to help people learn about sickle cell disease and mental health problems. Their leader, Julie Kariisa, worked with friends from another Rotary Club called Butabika to make this happen. They started their work at a school called MUBS in Nakawa. They...

The government is building a special water system in Tororo that runs on solar power. This big project will cost eight hundred million shillings and will help four thousand people have clean water every day. Mr. Lam Olweny from the water office wants people to have clean water near their homes...

Donald Trump talked on the phone with Russian President Vladimir Putin. They want their teams to meet and discuss peace, and they said they would visit each other's countries. Ukraine's leader, Volodymyr Zelensky, talked with Trump after that. Zelensky wants to ensure that any peace lasts for a...

DR Congo has stopped letting planes from Rwanda fly through its skies. This means RwandAir planes must take longer routes to reach places like London. One RwandAir flight from Kigali to London had a big problem. The pilot told everyone they couldn't fly over DR Congo anymore. The plane didn't...

The leader of Uganda's army, General Muhoozi Kainerugaba, met with the American Ambassador William Popp at an army base in Entebbe. They wanted to be friends again because General Muhoozi had said some mean things about Ambassador Popp before and even wanted him to leave Uganda. During their...

Qatar and Rwanda made a new rule that their people can visit each other's countries without special papers. Both countries signed this friendly agreement when Rwanda's leader, President Kagame, went to Qatar to meet their leader, Sheikh Tamim. People from Rwanda and Qatar can stay in each...

Dr. Muyingo wants university leaders to work together nicely. He spoke at a special meeting at Kyambogo University, where new leaders were starting their jobs. He told them they must help each other and not think about themselves first. He came to speak instead of Janet Museveni, who runs all...

The Uganda Defence Ministry wants more money to buy new planes. They need 381 billion shillings to help Uganda Air Cargo fly better. A person named Kahonda asked for this money because many planes are old and some were damaged when birds hit them. Some government officials think the army should...

Uganda and a big African trade group called AfCFTA met to talk about making money grow in Uganda. This trade group helps African countries buy and sell things with each other more easily. The AfCFTA team came to Uganda to check how well their plans from last year are working. These plans were...

Schools in Malawi told students they must leave if they receive money from America. This happened because the American president, Donald Trump, stopped sending money to other countries for three months. Many students in Malawi need this American money to attend big schools, which teach...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...