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...
Many people in Uganda feel worried because the United States stopped sending money to help with health care. Over 1.2 million Ugandans need this money for HIV/AIDS medicine.
Some clinics that give out HIV medicine had to close suddenly. Patients did not have time to get their medicine refills...
Uganda's economy is doing really well. It grew by 6.1 percent in 2023/24. The World Bank, a big organization that helps countries with money, wrote a report about this. They said that businesses, factories, and farms all did a great job. Uganda also sold more things to other countries. The...
Molly Katanga will have to stay in Luzira Prison for longer. She has been there for more than a year already. The High Court said she cannot leave yet.
Molly is accused of killing her husband, Henry Katanga, in their house in Mbuya on November 2, 2023. The people who make the rules think Molly...
A journalist named Blessed Mhlanga will have to stay in jail for two more nights. He works for Alpha Media Holdings. The police think he did something wrong. They say he shared information that might make people want to hurt others or break things.
Mr. Mhlanga went to the police station on...
The people in charge of money in Zimbabwe want companies to use a new type of money called ZiG. ZiG is backed by gold. Companies that sell their shares on the stock market have to tell everyone how much money they make using ZiG now.
Some people are not sure if this is a good idea. They are...
GEO Pomona is a private company the government chose to collect trash in Harare. But they have not started working yet. Trash is piling up in many neighborhoods. Some places have not had their garbage picked up for weeks. This has caused people to dump their trash in places they should not...
In Zimbabwe, the police took a well-known journalist named Mr. Blessed Mhlanga away by force. They did not follow the proper rules. This action by the police can be called an unlawful arrest or even an abduction arranged by the government.
Abduction means taking someone away by using force or...
OK Zimbabwe, a big company that sells things in stores, made some important changes. They asked three of their top bosses to leave their jobs right away. This happened because the stores were having a hard time. Many of the shelves were empty, and people couldn't find the things they wanted to...
A company called Afroludo Limited won a big court case. The judge said they are the real owners of the name "Nyege Nyege International Music Festival." The judge also told another government office to cancel a similar name that someone else got dishonestly.
Back in 2019, Afroludo tried to...
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