Mubende, Uganda | NEWS CORRESPONDENT |  When Osward Kakande watched his mother struggle with persistent coughs and headaches caused by smoke from traditional cooking stoves, he never imagined that her suffering would inspire a business now valued at more than Shs450 million. Today, the founder and director of Mubende …

  COMMENT | NNANDA KIZITO SSERUWAGI |  Chinese President Xi Jinping, is one of the most consequential world leaders of our time. Both his leadership style and ideological persuasion are unique. He features distinctively, even when compared to former Chinese leaders in recent memory. His worldview – the ideological and thought …

Kampala, Uganda | URN | MTN Uganda Limited has been ordered to pay more than 2.3 billion shillings to its former Senior Manager, Richard Mwami, after finding that the telecommunications company maliciously instigated his prosecution in the MTN Mobile Money fraud case. Mwami, who served as Senior Manager for MTN …

  WASHINGTON | Xinhua |The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected a Republican National Committee challenge to restrict mail-in voting grace periods, ruling that elections officials may continue to count mail-in ballots that arrive after election day if they were mailed by deadline. “The Framers recognized the difficulty of crafting …

  To improve the continent’s competitiveness, the bank calls for faster implementation of the African Continental Free Trade Area   Cairo, Egypt | THE INDEPENDENT | Africa has outperformed the global economy despite mounting geopolitical tensions, giving the continent an opportunity to accelerate industrialisation and deepen regional trade if governments …

GENEVA | Xinhua | More than 1,300 excess deaths have been recorded across Europe since June 21 linked to high temperatures, World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on social media platform X on Sunday. “Right now 150 million people are living under extreme heat, hundreds have died, …

  COMMENT | INNOCENT KAKANDE BITOOGO | Through our engagement with businesses across diverse sectors of the economy, KCB Bank Uganda has observed that organisations that consistently outperform their peers are those that treat governance, risk management and compliance as strategic priorities rather than regulatory obligations. While compliance is often …

  Entebbe, Uganda | PHILLIP CORRY & AGENCIES | The overalls were on, the vibes were high, and the golf was exceptional as Isaac Kyoyagala and Venessa Peris emerged as the overall winners of the 2026 Hima-sponsored Captain’s Putter tournament at Entebbe Golf Club. More than 160 golfers took to the …

  How PLU is swallowing NRM   Kampala, Uganda | IAN KATUSIIME | Is the Patriotic League of Uganda (PLU) an opposition outfit? Is it a faction within the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM), or does it operate as an independent political entity? Those are the questions dominating political discourse …

  Kampala, Uganda | PHILLIP CORRY | The four-ball quartet of KCB 1 – Moses Matsiko, Banza Matsiko, Lawrence Kimathi and Mark Namanya – on Saturday won the second leg of the KCB East Africa Golf Tour at the Lake Victoria Serena Golf Resort. They picked the overall team prize with 110 points …