Drive is to grow 700,000 trees in 300 Schools Across Northern Uganda   Gulu, Uganda | NEWS CORRESPONDENT |  Absa Bank Uganda, has announced a bold commitment to grow 2 million indigenous, fruit, shade and medicinal trees over the next three years, reinforcing the bank’s long-term dedication to climate action, environmental …

  The New Reality of Uganda’s Workplace   SPECIAL FEATURE | ARIHO DAISY KANSIIME | There was a time when a career path felt blissfully predictable. You studied for a profession, entered the workforce, and gradually built depth in that field. A civil engineer obsessed over cement and bricks. A …

Arua, Uganda | URN | The Deputy Inspector General of Government (IGG), Dr Patricia Okiria, has warned that public officers and leaders who fail to declare their wealth by the end of April will be dragged to the Leadership Code Tribunal to answer a case of violating the Leadership Code …

Mbarara, Uganda | URN | The High Court in Mbarara has dismissed an election petition filed by Mbarara City North MP candidate Robert Mwesigwa Rukaari against MP-elect Christopher Bakashaba and the Electoral Commission, after finding that Rukaari failed to properly serve the respondents with court documents. Rukaari, who contested as …

Kampala, Uganda | URN | With the 11th Parliament nearing its end, MPS are in a race to complete critical budget and legal business. Speaker of Parliament Anita Among confirmed, MPS are working against strict constitutional and procedural timelines to process budget-related bills before the next Parliament takes effect. The swearing-in of …

Entebbe, Uganda | NEWS CORRESPONDENT | The Uganda Printing and Publishing Corporation is moving to capture a slice of the digital economy, pivoting its state-run print school toward high-demand technical skills to help solve the country’s youth unemployment crisis. The UPPC Print School, long an anchor of the industrial printing …

Something happened on March 28 that most football fans missed entirely. Eight professional leagues from across the continent sat down, signed a Declaration of Principles, and created a body called African Leagues. It sits under the World Leagues Association. The Ugandan top flight signed on as a founding member. Anybody …

Lira, Uganda | NEWS FEATURE | For over six decades, dfcu Bank has supported Ugandans to build businesses, with agriculture remaining at the heart of that journey. Through financing, partnerships, and platforms that recognise and uplift farmers, the Bank continues to play a role in helping agriculture move from subsistence …

COMMENT | ANDREW PI BESI | When commenting on the 1980–1988 Iraq–Iran war, Henry Kissinger once remarked that it was “a pity both sides can’t lose”. It was a chilling distillation of a worldview in which distant conflicts are not tragedies to be resolved, but instruments to be managed. Alongside Zbigniew …

  From Kyankwanzi to the Moon and beyond: Another case for Regional Integration and Shared Ambition   COMMENT | ANDREW PI BESI | Sometime in 2023, I found myself on a panel at the Kampala Geopolitics Conference, convened by the French Embassy and Konrad Adenauer Stiftung–Uganda in partnership with Makerere University. …