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Kampala, Uganda | NEWS CORRESPONDENT |  For many young Ugandans, education is more than a pursuit of academic success. It is a bridge to opportunity, leadership, and transformation. For Fatmah Yusuf Gram, a young scholar from Fort Portal, that bridge became clearer through the Equity Leaders Program (ELP), a flagship initiative …

Kampala, Uganda | NEWS CORRESPONDENT | By the time many people retire, they begin winding down. Not Rachel Kabala. Energetic and purposeful, Kabala is the kind of person who seems to have replaced the word “retirement” with “reinvention”. A retired corporate executive, she now runs a law firm in Wakiso, works …

        COMMENT | BOUBAKER BEN-BELHASSEN | The tea in your cup began its journey in someone else’s hands. Hands whose work most of us never think about. Almost certainly, those hands belonged to a smallholder farmer tending a small plot of land, plucking leaves by hand beneath …

Kampala, Uganda | NEWS CORRESPONDENT |   Reach A Hand has launched the latest edition of “Beyond the Canvas” with a renowned global motivational speaker, Nick Vujicic, headlining the unveiling at Reach A Hand, Africa Headquarters in Kampala, Lungujja on May 18, 2026. Now in its 3rd edition, running under the …

  The Silent Danger Destroying Potential   COMMENT | MARY S NASSALI | Coaching has become essential for personal growth, leadership development, and professional success. In a fast-changing world, talent and ambition are not enough. Many people carry great potential but remain stuck because they lack clarity, confidence, accountability, and …

While AI doesn’t eliminate role of human capital in performance, research shows it eases execution constraints, especially for the less-educated COMMENT | MARIA LOMBARDI | Recent AI advances have created widespread expectations of substantial productivity gains. Early studies, such as one showing that AI increased the productivity of customer-support agents …

    A nationwide aquaculture boom takes hold, but production remains uneven   Kampala, Uganda | JULIUS BUSINGE | Uganda’s aquaculture sector is taking shape unevenly across the country, with some regions emerging as clear leaders while others are still building capacity, according to the latest national census. Figures from …

  Over five years, the country has invested in STI to shift from commodities to industrial and knowledge-based production   NEWS ANALYSIS | JULIUS BUSINGE | When Vice President Jessica Alupo visited a science museum in Moscow, Russia, last year, she expected a routine tour. Instead, she found herself inside …

Kampala, Uganda | NEWS CORRESPONDENT | Ugandans are increasingly taking up the majority of jobs on the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) project as it moves closer to completion, the company has announced. EACOP Deputy Managing Director, John Bosco Habumugisha, made the remarks while presenting project updates at the …

  A new survey shows rising enrolment and modest formal job growth, yet highlights a widening mismatch between education and employment as most Ugandans remain in the informal sector   Kampala, Uganda | JULIUS BUSINGE | Uganda’s labour market is expanding and becoming more formalised, but structural weaknesses in skills …