Kampala, Uganda | URN | Several parents, students, and education stakeholders are backing the government’s planned review of public university sponsorship programmes. They point to long-standing inequities in the system where students from “more privileged” backgrounds often secure sponsorship ahead of high-performing learners from low-income families. The review was officially …

Pakwach, Uganda | URN | Kilak South Member of Parliament Gilbert Olanya has challenged the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Development over claims that vandalism caused the collapse of several electricity transmission towers along the Karuma–Olwiyo–Pakwach power line. The controversy follows statements by Energy Minister Ruth Nankabirwa Ssentamu and State Minister …

Kampala, Uganda | URN | Uganda and several other African countries are yet to join the Single African Air Transport Market (SAATM), a delay that continues to make air travel across the continent expensive and less seamless compared to other regions. Speaking at a continental aviation workshop in Kampala, Octavio …

Jinja, Uganda | URN | What started as an unusual domestic arrangement in Kagoma-Makota village, Kagoma Town Council in Jinja District, has ended with village leaders mediating a peaceful separation between two men who had been living with the same woman under one roof. Forty-six-year-old Judith Babirye had been living with …

Kampala, Uganda | URN | The governments of the United States and Uganda held the first meeting of the new Joint Health Steering Committee to oversee implementation of their five-year $2.3 billion Health Memorandum of Understanding signed last December. Co-chaired by the U.S. Ambassador to Uganda William W. Popp and …

Kampala, Uganda | URN | The Electoral Commission (EC) has released the roadmap for the by-election of the District Woman Member of Parliament for Kalangala District. According to the program signed by the EC Chairperson, Justice Byabakama Mugenyi Simon, residents of the Ssese Islands will head to the polls on …

Kampala, Uganda | URN | Experts have advised Ugandans and the government in particular to control spending and reprioritise expenditure, as the uncertainty of an end to the Middle East crisis grows. At the beginning of the US/Israeli war on Iran mid-February, indications based especially on the statements by the …

Amuru, Uganda | URN | Atiak Sugar Factory has returned to the centre of national debate, with the government projecting the start of sugar production by September 2026, six years after its commissioning. The revised timeline was announced by State Minister for Industries David Bahati during a parliamentary sitting on March …

Kampala, Uganda | URN | Taxpayers could soon be footing Shillings 29.079 billion annually to fund a salary enhancement for Resident District Commissioners (RDCs) and their deputies, ending a 20-year pay freeze. The proposal was unveiled by Alex Byarugaba, Chairperson of the Presidential Affairs Committee, during the presentation of the …

Kampala, Uganda | URN | Uganda and the least developed countries have expressed frustration about the failure to reform the World Trade Organization’s rules to ensure they benefit from the global trading system. Their concern stems from the just-concluded 14th Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization, at which Ugandan …