NEWS

  Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda Development Bank (UDB) has reported a strong 2025 performance, with increased financing supporting private sector expansion, job creation and growth in productive capacity. The development finance institution disbursed Shs502.2 billion during the year, a 29% increase from 2024, while total assets rose …

Kampala, Uganda | URN | The lack of public toilets in Ssentamu Zone and Nakawa Small Gate in Nakawa Parish, Nakawa Division, is forcing some residents and workers to dispose of human waste in polythene bags and dump it in drainage channels, residents have said. The concerns were raised during …

Moroto, Uganda | URN | Indigenous communities in the Karamoja sub-region are asking the government to train and recruit native teachers to teach children in lower primary schools, saying the shortage of teachers who speak local languages is undermining learning. Karamoja is home to 11 minority ethnic groups, including the …

  WHO and Africa CDC call for stronger detection, contact tracing and treatment capacity as response struggles to keep pace   Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Democratic Republic of Congo needs to urgently expand its community-led response to Ebola as new infections and deaths continue to outpace efforts …

      The first hotel under the flagship Marriott brand has been hailed as a vote of confidence in the country’s hospitality market    Kampala, Uganda | IAN KATUSIIME | A gleaming blue twin-tower complex connected by a skybridge rises above Nsambya Hill, the latest addition to Kampala’s rapidly …

Kampala, Uganda | URN | Rice importers say brokers are allegedly working with officials in the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Cooperatives to take control of the country’s rice import business through a permit allocation system.  They claim that the permit allocation system has locked genuine traders out of the …

Kampala, Uganda | URN | Civil society organisations have questioned whether Parliament is effectively exercising its constitutional mandate to scrutinise government borrowing, warning that weak oversight has contributed to Uganda’s rising public debt and poor returns from loan-funded projects. The concerns were raised during a dialogue between Members of Parliament …

  Stanbic’s China payment link is set to ease the country’s trade friction with Beijing   Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  Ugandan businesses trading with China are set to gain faster access to yuan payments after Stanbic Bank Uganda became the country’s first lender to connect to China’s Cross-Border …

Kampala, Uganda | URN | In response to growing concerns over road crashes involving school-going children, the Ministry of Works and Transport, the Uganda Police Force, the Ministry of Education, and the Intelligent Transport Monitoring System (ITMS), have  launched efforts to improve child safety on the road. ‎The agencies meeting …

Kampala, Uganda | PATRICIA AKANKWATSA | Ecobank Uganda is seeking to push its banking relationship with customers beyond financial transactions through a new partnership with Serena Hotels that will give cardholders access to discounts and other privileges across the hospitality group’s properties in Africa and Asia. The partnership, launched in Kampala …