OPINION | ALY S. MAHERALI | Across East Africa, insurance remains one of the least understood, yet increasingly important, financial services. The numbers tell an important story. According to the Insurance Regulatory Authority of Uganda (IRA), the country’s insurance industry grew by 10% in 2024, with gross written premiums rising …
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Kampala, Uganda | URN | The Luzira Chief Magistrates Court has remanded former Minister for Ethics and Integrity Miria Matembe to Luzira Prison on charges of promoting sectarianism. The 73-year-old appeared before Grade One Magistrate Sheilah Gloria Atim on Tuesday evening and was remanded until Wednesday, July 1, 2026, when …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Legislators under the Uganda Women Parliamentary Association (UWOPA) have been encouraged to contribute to the dismantling of structural inequalities through targeted legislation, equitable resource distribution and effective representation. Speaker Jacob Marksons Oboth said UWOPA has been the most enduring and influential parliamentary group since …
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Kampala, Uganda | URN | ”Currently 33 percent of every shilling invested in infrastructure is lost in poor planning, project delays and weak maintenance.” -World Bank Director for Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda and Somalia, Qimiao Fan. The World Bank has said Uganda needs to triple the current allocation for human capital …
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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 …
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New American sanctions target the commercial networks that turn Congo’s conflict minerals into global business NEWS ANALYSIS | RONALD MUSOKE | For years, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo’s wars have been fought with rifles, rockets and militias. Increasingly, however, Washington believes the conflict is being sustained somewhere else …
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Kenyan constitutional lawyer and veteran politician Martha Karua embraced the brief to defend Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye after his abduction from Nairobi in November 2024. Nearly two years later, she finds herself barred from entering Uganda, in a legal and political saga that is testing the boundaries of justice, …
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Kampala, Uganda | URN | The Government of Uganda has announced plans to evacuate Ugandan nationals from South Africa following rising anti-migrant violence and xenophobic protests targeting foreign nationals. In a press statement issued on June 28th, 2026, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni had directed that …
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Munich, Germany | NEWS CORRESPONDENT | Uganda has opened its first cultural and tourism festival in Germany, a three-day event in Munich that organisers describe as the largest Ugandan public event held in their country to date. The festival opened on Thursday with traditional drumming, drawing Ugandans from across Germany …
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Kampala, Uganda | URN | Mental health experts have warned that Uganda does not have enough trained counsellors to meet the growing demand for counselling services, particularly in communities outside major urban centres. Speaking during the Second National Counsellors’ Summit at Kyambogo University on Thursday, Uganda Counsellors Association (UCA) President Elizabeth …
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The Independent Uganda: You get the Truth we Pay the Price
