Another female teenager found dead in Mbale in another suspected suicide
Police in Mbale city have launched investigations after another teenage girl was found dead in her room in what is suspected to be a case…
Four remanded over killing of rugby star Sydney Gongodyo
The Kampala City Hall Court has remanded four men to Luzira Prison in connection with the killing of Uganda Rugby Cranes player Sydney Gyabi Gongodyo. The accused are Obed Mugwisa, 39, a boda boda rider and resident of Nsimbiziwome Zone in Nakawa division; Elly Mondoni, 33, a delivery agent with Medicinal Pharmacy and resident of…
Business
From costly charcoal to smart cooking, how a young Ugandan Enterprise is making clean energy affordable
For years, Jian Namuhenge spent nearly Shs 80,000 every month on charcoal. Like millions of Ugandans, she relied on a traditional charcoal stove for daily cooking, unaware that a more efficient and affordable alternative existed. Today, that same sack of charcoal lasts her almost three months. The difference is not a change in income or…
Eastern region UMA trade fair opens doors for regional entrepreneurs
On June 7, the 14th Eastern Region Trade Fair (ERTF), organized by the Uganda Manufacturers Association (UMA), was officially opened…
Eco-friendly stoves promise relief Uganda’s forests crave
For years, Jian Namuhenge spent nearly Shs 80,000 every month on charcoal. Like millions of Ugandans, she relied on a…
World Bank to lend Shs 23 trillion to Uganda
The World Bank Group (WBG) has unveiled plans to lend Uganda about $6 billion (about Shs 23 trillion) over the…
Education
UNSA re-election row lands at Ministry
A petition filed with the Ministry of Education and Sports has sparked fresh debate over leadership succession and constitutional interpretation…
Mukono parents protest transfer of deputy head teacher
A section of parents at St Peter’s Claver Namilyango Mixed Primary School in Mukono district staged a protest against the…
KCCA boss Buzeki urges struggling parents to embrace free govt schools
The executive director of Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA), Hajjat Sharifah Buzeki, has challenged parents struggling to pay school fees…
TECHNOLOGY
Uganda breaks into global top 25 for outsourcing
At 10 a.m. on a Tuesday in Gulu, 26-year-old Amara is already deep into her workday. Her client is in Tokyo. The assignment: rebuilding a website for a Japanese retail company. She has never been to Japan. She has never needed to. For years, many young Ugandans were told that the path to a successful…
Why Uganda’s education sector needs transformation, not just digitisation
No amount of computers, tablets or high-speed internet can transform Uganda’s education system if teachers remain unskilled and resistant to change, Prof Paul Birevu Muyinda, an expert in Open and Distance Learning, has warned. According to Muyinda, Uganda’s education sector requires a fundamental transformation rather than a narrow focus on digitisation. While technology can support…
Digital inclusion: What Ugandan telecoms can learn from Kenya’s Safaricom and South Africa’s Vodacom
Perhaps it is no coincidence that Kenya’s Safaricom and South Africa’s Vodacom, two sister companies partly owned by British multinational Vodafone, have emerged as leaders in providing accessible services to persons with disabilities (PWDs). An August 2020 report, Access Denied: How Telecom Operators in Africa Are Failing Persons With Disabilities, by the Collaboration on International…
Lifestyle
Sex Talk: Give her something to work with
“A marriage’s happiness is in the husband’s hands, not the wife’s. A wife is naturally built to respond, to multiply.” – Anonymous. I read that somewhere weeks ago, and I have been mulling over it, and the more I think of it, the more it makes many things make perfect sense. Like, if you give…
Deep Water now in cinema
Deep Water is a mid-budget movie starring Aaron Eckhart and Ben Kingsley about an international flight that crashes in the Pacific Ocean, pitting the survivors against a school of sharks. Initially pitched in the early 2010s as a sequel to Bait 3D (2012) and scrapped in 2014 because of similarities to the Malaysia Airlines Flight…
What gorilla tracking taught me about life
“There comes a point in life where giving up feels easier than taking another step. But sometimes, the only way out is through.” These are the words that continue to echo in my mind long after my gorilla tracking experience; a journey that pushed me beyond my physical limits, challenged my mental strength, and ultimately…
Sports
How will rugby bear the pain of losing Pirates’ Gongodyo?
The late Sydney Gongodyo, the Rugby Cranes and Black Pirates forward was laid to rest yesterday in his home district of Bulambuli. At the age of 27, Gongodyo died on Friday, June 5, as a result of injuries he suffered, following a mob attack on him in Bukoto. Gongodyo, who left behind a one-year-old son…
Other News
S.3 Mbale High School student Catherine found hanged at home
The police in Mbale city, Eastern Uganda, are investigating the death of a 16-year-old student of Mbale High School who…
Three nominated for Kalangala Woman MP by-election
The Electoral Commission (EC) has nominated three candidates on the first day of nominations for the Kalangala District Woman MP…
Armed robbers raid Kitgum wholesale shop, flee with Shs 10m
Armed robbers on Tuesday night raided a wholesale shop in Omiya Anyima sub-county, Kitgum district, and made off with more…