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. …

Kampala, Uganda | URN | The government’s Pornograpy Control Committee has raised concern over the increasing exposure of children to online sexual exploitation and harmful digital content. Speaking to journalists at the government-owned media centre, Annet Kezabu, the Chairperson of the Pornography Control Committee, said they have discovered that children …

According to the MPI, 27 per cent of Ugandans (Approx.12.2 million) are classified as multidimensionally poor, with stark regional disparities   Kampala, Uganda | JULIUS BUSINGE | Uganda’s progress in reducing income poverty is masking a more complex reality, as new data shows millions of citizens still face significant deprivation …

Kampala, Uganda | NEWS CORRESPONDENT | The trial of Molly Katanga took a corporate turn in the High Court yesterday, as prosecutors shifted their focus from forensic evidence to the financial operations of the business empire she co-founded with her late husband, Henry Katanga. In a session dominated by balance …

  Finance ministry figures released on April 9 show fourth-quarter disbursements of Shs17.444tn, lifting total releases to Shs77.001tn—106.4% of the approved budget and 95.1% of the revised plan   Kampala, Uganda | JULIUS BUSINGE | The government has released more funds than initially approved for the current financial year ending …

  Mobile money operators also highlighted the effect of digital transaction taxes on usage, noting that higher costs are already prompting some consumers to revert to cash   Kampala, Uganda | JULIUS BUSINGE | Uganda’s proposed tax measures for the 2026/27 financial year have drawn criticism from civil society groups, …

  Urban centres are projected to contribute up to 70 per cent of the country’s GDP, underscoring the importance of structured urban development   NEWS ANALYSIS | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda is set to roll out a Shs 2.1 trillion urban infrastructure programme next financial year, backed by the World …