Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda and five other East African countries, where Airtel Africa operates, significantly improved the overall growth of its mobile money business, following a 19.8% increase in the region’s mobile money income to US$ 635 million in 2024, up from US$ 531 million in 2023. …

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania | THE INDPEPENDENT | Kiira Motors Corporation (KMC) has unveiled the all-electric Kayoola EVS Model 2024 at the ongoing 2nd Uganda – Tanzania Business Forum at Johari Rotana Hotel in Dar es Salaam. The Kayoola EVS is a fully electric low-floor bus specifically designed for Urban Mass …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | With five players, Uganda Premier League Champions SC Villa form the largest contingent of locally based players in a Cranes team predominantly composed of international players. Goalkeeper Braddy Jeans Wokorach, defender Kenneth Semakula plus forwards Ronald Ssekiganda, Patrick Jonah Kakande and Umar Lutalo have been called up …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) says Uganda has improved transparency and accountability in its oil and mining sector. In the latest findings, the EITI, a global standard for the prudent management of natural resources, hails Uganda for establishing what it described as a …

In Uganda, about 7,200 maternal deaths occur every year, and for every maternal death, 6 – 15 mothers survive with chronic and debilitating ill health such as obstetric fistula.  Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  Countries around the World will on Friday, May 23rd carry out a campaign to highlight the …

Kabale, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Kabale High Court Resident Judge Samuel Emokol has called upon Universities teaching law to consider establishing english as a course unit as lawyers struggle to express themselves in the language while making court submissions. While speaking as the chief guest at the launch of …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The call for an inquiry by Professor Barnabas Nawangwe into the setting of a constitutional law examination at Makerere continues to raise debate. Speaker Anita Among has come out herself, to say there was nothing wrong with her being the subject of the exam. …

  Nepal | THE INDEPENDENT | Kenyan climber Cheruiyot Kirui, who was seeking to make history by reaching the summit of Mount Everest without extra-oxygen support, has been found dead after contact was lost with him on May 22. The Kenyan’s  body was found a few meters below the summit …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  The Diamond Trust Bank has bid farewell to its former Managing Director, Varghese Thambi, marking the end of his 17-year tenure with the bank. Thambi, who joined DTB in 2007, was hailed by the Deputy Governor of the Bank of Uganda, Michael Atingi-Ego, for …

SPECIAL FEATURE | Alfred Geresom Musamali | Former President Apollo Milton Obote’s Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Deputy Minister Patrick Rubaihayo (84), who was recalled to his creator on Thursday 16th May has left behind a wife (Miriam), 11 children, 24 grandchildren and at least 20 major crop breeding research undertakings as …