And it’s unlike anything NASA has done   COMMENT | RICHARD DE GRIJS | How do you explore a place where the sun never shines? China’s space programme will soon embark on one of the most innovative lunar exploration missions in recent years. We’ve known for nearly two decades that …

Leg 1 Sept 12 UGC Leg 2 Oct 10. Ebb Club Kampala, Uganda | PHILLIP CORRY | Mvara Secondary School and Kigezi High School could be the “Dark Horses” tomorrow as the first leg of the Hima Cement-sponsored Clash of Titans tees off at Uganda Golf Club. Twenty-one alumni schools …

  Entebbe, Uganda | PHILLIP CORRY |  Uganda Pro Open champion Ronald Rugumayo added another accolade to his cabinet, winning the second leg of the MTN Pro Tee today at Entebbe Club. In stunning golf played on the last two days, Rugumayo produced the lowest scores ever at the Entebbe …

  Capital Markets Authority indicates that professionally managed assets top UGX 7 trillion   Kampala, Uganda | NEWS CORRESPONDENT | KURA Asset Management has entered Uganda’s investment management market, targeting a growing pool of individuals, families and institutions looking beyond traditional savings towards professionally managed investments and long-term wealth creation. …

  How Samalie Kristensen bridges two continents to empower vulnerable children in East Africa.   Kampala, Uganda | NEWS CORRESPONDENT |  At 52, Samalie Kristensen wears many hats: dedicated social worker, mother of four, active gardener, and passionate humanitarian. Living in Denmark, she balances a full-time career supporting families within the …

  Entebbe, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Ronald Rugumayo showed why he is the new Uganda Open Pro champion today with a blistering 8-under-par score of 63 to take the lead at the MTN Pro Tee event that concludes Friday at Entebbe Club. After struggling to keep with the leaders on the …

#   COMMENT | HUMPHREY NABIMANYA | It would be interesting if someone conducted research to establish what makes young people respond so strongly to popular youth figures. Is it their age, their personality, their status? There are several examples that justify this case. The current example is the late …

  NEWS ANALYSIS | THE INDEPENDENT |  On 20th August last month, the world marked a discovery that changed the course of public health. In 1897, the British physician Sir Ronald Ross, working in India, proved that female Anopheles mosquitoes transmit the parasite that causes malaria in humans. It was …

  Kabanda returns to Uganda from the African Development Bank, where he currently heads the Extractives Division and provides strategic leadership and policy advice on oil, gas and mining development across Africa   Kampala, Uganda | URN |  The Petroleum Authority of Uganda (PAU) has appointed veteran petroleum sector expert …

  Kampala, Uganda | URN | Two retired UPDF Generals who previously headed military intelligence, have been arrested as investigations into alleged false intelligence and treachery widen. The detained are retired Maj Gen Abel Kandiho and retired Brig Gen Charles Bakahumura. Both commanded the Chieftaincy of Military Intelligence (CMI), now …