Uganda Broadcasting Corporation

The Special Forces Command (SFC) has celebrated its victory in the second edition of the Chief of Defence Forces (CDF) Inter-Forces Drill Competition, with the Command leadership receiving the winning team and championship trophy at SFC Headquarters in Entebbe, Wakiso District. SFC emerged overall champions, taking home the championship trophy and a cash prize of UGX 50 million. While receiving the...

Inspector General of Police (IGP) Abas Byakagaba has reaffirmed the Uganda Police Force’s commitment to upholding human rights and taking action against officers who violate established standards of conduct. Byakagaba made the remarks when he appeared before the Parliamentary Committee on Human Rights, chaired by Hon. Ouma Willy, to address issues concerning human rights observance and policing in Uganda. The IGP...

Residents of Mpererwe, Kiteezi and Kiti are set to benefit from improved road infrastructure as reconstruction of the 9.1-kilometre Mpererwe-Kiteezi-Kiti road gets underway under the Kampala City Roads Rehabilitation Project (KCRRP). The road project, valued at UGX 51 billion, is expected to improve mobility and road safety for motorists, pedestrians and cyclists along the busy corridor. Kampala Lord Mayor Ronald Balimwezo...

Parliament has condoled with the people of Tooro Kingdom and the royal family following the death of King Oyo Nyimba Kabamba Iguru Rukidi IV, with Speaker Jacob Marksons Oboth describing the monarch’s death as “deeply painful.” Speaker Oboth eulogised the late Omukama during Tuesday’s plenary sitting, September 1, 2026, and called on Parliament to stand with the people of Tooro...

The top leadership of the Judiciary has decried inadequate funding despite the huge demands placed on it to administer justice to all. Chief Justice Dr. Flavian Zeija pointed to budgetary disparities as a factor that has long pitted the Judiciary against other arms of government. The Chief Justice was addressing a meeting where the Judiciary’s top management interfaced with the Parliamentary...

Katikamu County South MP Hassan Kirumira has called on the government to investigate the shooting of a 28-year-old boda boda rider during the national cleaning exercise and compensate his bereaved family. Kirumira raised the matter during Tuesday’s plenary sitting chaired by Speaker of Parliament Jacob Marksons Oboth, saying Ronald Jjuuko Kizito was shot dead by a police constable on Saturday,...

By Kooko Lawrence The Government has backed proposals to reform Uganda’s pension system to provide retirees with regular income after retirement. Finance, Planning and Economic Development Minister Henry Musasizi says the reforms would help retirees maintain a steady income while also supporting the growth of Uganda’s capital markets. Musasizi was speaking at the Uganda Media Centre in Kampala during the launch of...

By Wadulo Arnold Mark KAMPALA – Uganda’s sugar industry, long crippled by fragmented regulation, tax leakages, and hostile relations between millers and growers, is undergoing a major regulatory overhaul. The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Cooperatives has launched a dual offensive, holding consecutive high-level meetings with sugar millers and sugarcane growers to enforce compliance with the newly amended Sugar Act...

 President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has today received the Letters of Credence from five Ambassadors Designate representing the United Arab Emirates, the People’s Republic of China, the Kingdom of the Netherlands, the Kingdom of Sweden and the Federal Republic of Germany at State House Entebbe. The presentation of credentials formally marks the commencement of the envoys’ diplomatic assignments in Uganda and...

Police, working with other security agencies, have arrested the driver of the Mwebaze High School bus that collided with a train on 10 July 2026. Christopher Kikomeko was arrested in Mukono, where he had reportedly been hiding after learning that security agencies were looking for him in connection with the accident, which claimed one life and injured several students.