NEWS ANALYSIS | TINAH AKETCH | Uganda’s push to attract investment is confronting a challenge beyond financing and infrastructure: uncertainty over whether government contracts will survive parliamentary scrutiny without disruption, costly disputes or demands for cancellation. Across enquiries into expressway operations, vehicle inspections and digital number plates, Parliament …

Kampala, Uganda | URN | The World Health Organisation (WHO) has signed a cooperation agreement with INTERPOL aimed at tackling some of the most pressing threats at the intersection of public health and security. The agreement, which establishes a framework to combine INTERPOL’s law enforcement expertise with WHO’s public health …

Luo Lan (R) poses for a photo with a foreign tourist at her homestay in Xiahalama Village of Hongyuan County of Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, southwest China’s Sichuan Province, July 9, 2026. (Xinhua/Wang Xi)     CHENGDU | Xinhua |  Luo Lan first came to Hongyuan in southwest …

  Kampala, Uganda | NEWS CORRESPONDENT | In the heart of Uganda’s capital, where the hustle of the central business district meets the digital aspirations of a new generation, Andrew Kasi stands as a beacon of self-made success. Known to the world as 256 Genuine Gadgets Kampala, TikTok handle 256_genuine_gadgets_kla. …

  Sulah Lumu: A businessman’s public identity takes shape   Kampala, Uganda | NEW CORRESPONDENT | In Kampala, where small businesses, retail traders and ambitious entrepreneurs form an important part of the urban economy, public recognition can develop in different ways. Some entrepreneurs become known through established companies, others through …

  HANOI | Xinhua |  For the family of Vietnamese general Hong Shui, known in Vietnam as Nguyen Son, the Long March in China is a journey they never witnessed, yet one that has lived on through stories about the man who walked it. Between 1934 and 1936, the Red …

    Businessman Kimuli Urges Uganda Govt to Attract Italian Investors at Uganda–Italy Business Summit   Rome, Italy |  NEWS CORRESPONDENT | Ugandan businessman Louis Kimuli has urged the government to attract Italian investors into coffee processing, manufacturing and mineral beneficiation, saying Uganda must move beyond exporting raw materials and …

    Kampala, Uganda | URN | The Commercial Division of the High Court in Kampala has ordered Roko Construction Limited to pay Assa Abloy (U) Limited 1.39 million dollars (approximately sh5.7billion) in outstanding payments for doors, accessories and ironmongery supplied and installed at Mulago National Referral Hospital. In a judgement …

    Second Doha Dialogue on labour mobility held in Dar-es-Salaam showed how worker protections are hard to achieve   NEWS ANALYSIS | IAN KATUSIIME | For two days in early October, hundreds of delegates from African countries and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) gathered at the Indian Ocean-facing Hyatt …

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