Current Affairs

The National Unity Platform-NUP party has opted out of the forthcoming Adjumani West by-election, throwing its support behind independent candidate Tanru Pasi-Patrick.

More than 18 hours after he reportedly disappeared, the whereabouts of Matthew Bagonza, a senior officer with the Presidential Advisory Committee on Exports and Industrial Development (PACEID), remain unknown, amid growing uncertainty over his alleged arrest.

President Yoweri Museveni has inaugurated Roofings Group’s Phase IV steel manufacturing facility in Namanve, marking another expansion of Uganda’s capacity to process steel locally.

Social media content creator Ibrahim Musana, popularly known as Pressure 24/7, has been granted mandatory bail after spending about five months on remand without trial.

For decades, children in some of Uganda's hard-to-reach communities have faced a simple but significant barrier to secondary education: there was no secondary school close to home.

Cabinet has approved plans to borrow up to €31.98 million, equivalent to about 139 billion Shillings, from the French government to construct and equip a regional oncology centre in Mbarara.

Mariam Lutale, the daughter of treason suspect Obeid Lutale, has joined a four-member legal team representing her father in the High Court treason trial. Lutale is jointly charged with former presidential candidate Dr Kizza Besigye and Captain Denis Oola.

Police have arrested a suspect in connection with the murder of 22-year-old Jovia Namuwulya, a waitress and TikToker who was stabbed to death in her rented room in Mukalazi Zone, Bukoto.

American actor and R&B star Tyrese Gibson has arrived in Uganda for a three-day visit that will combine Hollywood, music, coffee and tourism as the country seeks to give its coffee story a global audience.

Each morning, Lilian Nabukela, a resident of Kiti A, Kasangati Town Council in Wakiso District, opens the kiosk she built with support from Uganda’s Parish Development Model (PDM). A fridge keeps soft drinks cold, giving her a modest but steady income.