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Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) has secured Shs25 billion in government funding to begin the first phase of an integrated waste management facility at Buyala during the current financial year. The project will include construction of a sorting bay, fencing of the approximately 230-acre site and procurement of 10 garbage trucks to strengthen waste collection and evacuation across the city. KCCA...

The Chargé d’Affaires a.i. at the Uganda Embassy in Addis Ababa Mrs Margaret Kafeero, today received a courtesy call from Ambassador Solomon Rutega, Secretary-General of the Inter-African Coffee Organisation (IACO). The high-level meeting focused on IACO’s expanding institutional footprint, highlighted by the opening of its new Addis Ababa Office at the African Union (AU) headquarters, and the joint execution...

By Joseph Mary Buwule KAMPALA, Uganda — Makerere University has disseminated findings from a research project aimed at addressing the growing challenge of water scarcity and inadequate water and sanitation infrastructure in the Greater Kampala Metropolitan Area. The project, titled “Urban Expansion Model for Mitigating Water Scarcity in the Greater Kampala Metropolitan Area,” was funded by the Government of Uganda through...

President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni today met the European Union Special Representative for the Great Lakes Region, Mr. Johan Borgstam, at State House, Entebbe, where they discussed regional peace and security, including the ongoing conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). During the discussions, President Museveni reiterated his call for dialogue, describing it as the only viable solution to the...

By Wadulo Arnold Mark Real estate developers, engineering contractors, and housing officials have sounded an urgent alarm over the alarming surge in deadly building collapses across Uganda, demanding immediate enforcement of professional standards, strict inspection regimes, and individual culpability for compromised site supervisors. Speaking during a press conference in Kampala ahead of the upcoming National Real Estate Conference, leadership from the...

Team Uganda has begun settling into the Games Village in Dakar, Senegal, ahead of the Youth Olympic Games, with table tennis player Joseph Ssebatindira and rower Marcel Otim becoming the first Ugandan athletes to arrive. Otim was the first member of the Ugandan contingent to reach Dakar after flying in directly from the United States. He was welcomed by Chef...

The Chief of Defence Forces (CDF) and Senior Presidential Advisor for Special Operations, General Muhoozi Kainerugaba, has promoted Brigadier Oscar Munanura to the rank of Acting Major General and appointed him the new Chief of Defence Intelligence and Security (CDIS) of the Uganda Peoples’ Defence Forces (UPDF). Munanura previously served as Deputy Chief of Defence Intelligence and Security under Major...

The National Identification and Registration Authority (NIRA) is working with the Uganda Communications Commission (UCC) to synchronise systems and authenticate newly issued national identity cards, Health Minister Chris Baryomunsi has told Parliament. Baryomunsi, a former Minister for ICT and National Guidance, acknowledged that the newly issued national IDs had not yet been fully activated but assured lawmakers that the process...

Parliament’s Committee on Commissions, Statutory Authorities and State Enterprises (COSASE) has resolved to meet the Minister of for Finance, Planning and Economic Development, Henry Musasizi, over the alleged registration of four companies without payment of fees amounting to Shs8 billion to the Uganda Registration Services Bureau (URSB). The decision followed a meeting with URSB officials on Tuesday, October 27, 2026,...

By Joseph Mary Buwule GUIYANG, China, Mbale City in eastern Uganda and Guiyang City, the capital of Guizhou Province in China, have taken a major step towards strengthening economic, agricultural, cultural and technological cooperation following the signing of a Letter of Intent to Establish Friendly Exchange and Cooperation Relations between the two cities. The agreement, signed in Guiyang on Tuesday, October...