MTN Pro Tee Sept 8-11 MTN Monthly Tee Sept 12 Entebbe, Uganda | PHILLIP CORRY | Up to 40 professional golfers will be in action today as MTN Pro Tee leg 2 returns to the par 71 lakeside Entebbe Club. After an absorbing 4 days of action last week in …

  Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT & AGENCIES | Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Thomas Tayebwa, has publicly thrown his weight behind Gen. Muhoozi Kainerugaba to succeed President Yoweri Museveni in the 2031 general elections, marking a significant political endorsement from one of the country’s top legislative figures. Speaking on Monday …

Sept 12 UGC Oct 10 Ebb Club Kampala, Uganda | PHILLIP CORRY | Saint Mary’s Kisubi and Bwerayange alumni golf teams will again be the ones to watch as the first leg of the 5th edition of the Hima Cement-sponsored Clash of Titans tees off on September 12 at the …

  Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  Uganda has joined other African countries in the inaugural Africa Safer Gambling Week, a continental initiative bringing together regulators, industry associations, operators, safer gambling organisations and other stakeholders to strengthen player protection across Africa. Taking place from 7–11 September 2026, Africa Safer Gambling Week …

At the 2025 FIFA Intercontinental Cup in Qatar, an electronic tracking system used 16 optical cameras under the stadium roof and captured 29 data points per player 50 times each second. Officials used that stream for real-time offside alerts, while the same class of positional information allows analysts to examine …

  For policymakers, the clock is ticking on a choice between continuing an expensive experiment or rewriting the rules of Uganda’s mineral wealth   Kampala, Uganda | RONALD MUSOKE |  For years, Uganda’s decision to give gold special treatment in its tax regime has been defended as an investment incentive. The idea …

  SHENZHEN | Xinhua |  A consensus on jointly promoting the prosperity and development of the Asia-Pacific region was unveiled at the Asia-Pacific Media Forum, which kicked off on Saturday in Shenzhen, south China’s Guangdong Province. More than 400 representatives from over 40 countries and regions, as well as from …

  Kampala, Uganda | NEWS CORRESPONDENT | Regional sexual and reproductive health experts have called for a closer examination of age-of-consent laws and how they affect adolescents’ access to healthcare, arguing that legal and administrative barriers can prevent young people from obtaining the information and services they need to avoid …

  China-Uganda ties are moving beyond infrastructure, raising questions over who captures the value   Kampala, Uganda | IAN KATUSIIME | Mariam, a woman in her late twenties, works at Nice Textiles Uganda Limited inside the Sino-Uganda Mbale Industrial Park. Her work begins with thread and ends with fabric. “Here, …

  20 years after the discovery announcement, ‘Pearl Sweet’ marks the moment Uganda’s crude moves from political promise to commercial test   Kampala, Uganda | RONALD MUSOKE | After almost 20 years of waiting, Uganda has finally given its oil a name. President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni unveiled the name “Pearl Sweet” …