Tag Archives: Uganda

Beginning July 1, 2027, public officers will contribute five percent of their monthly salary, while the government will contribute 10 percent to the new Public Service Pension Fund.   Kampala, Uganda | URN | Civil servants will begin contributing to their retirement benefits, marking the end of Uganda’s decades-old non-contributory …

  Chris Obore being charged for embezzlement of Shs 5.2bn. Daniel Adilo 14.6bn. Leonard Okema 3.48bn Rajab Kaya 2.17bn Okwi Emmanuel Emuron 1.1bn Itute Stella 75m Oteba Vincent 5.2bn Kampala, Uganda | URN | Seven senior officials from Parliament have been arrested by the Inspectorate of Government (IG) over alleged …

Kampala, Uganda | URN | The Ministry of Health (MOH) said that it was unaware of an outbreak of Marburg viral hemorrhagic fever in the country. Information about a possible outbreak started circulating after the United States Embassy in Kampala released an advisory alerting its citizens that there was a …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

  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 …

    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 …

  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, …