Tag: Uganda

A new species of leafhopper, named Phlogis kibalensis, has been discovered in Uganda in what the scientist who found the insect called a “once-in-a-lifetime achievement.”  The newly-found species was reported in ...

Kampala City Traders’ Association (Kacita) spokesperson Issa Sekitto said the traders are faced with cash flow constraints and lack of access to credit, in addition to accumulated rent credit and ...

Brig. Isoke formerly served as the deputy director of the Chieftaincy of Military Intelligence (CMI) and was the head of peace operations at the East Africa Standby Force (EASF). Col. ...

The commissioning ceremony was a pre-event ahead of the 36th National Resistance Movement (NRM)  liberation day that is commemorated every January 26. In Hoima City, the President commissioned the Hoima-Buliisa-Wanseko ...

KAMPALA - Health Minister Jane Ruth Aceng told reporters that they have increased surveillance along the border with DRC where a confirmed case was reported on Oct 6. The two ...

The emergency of COVID-19 has not only pushed Africa's traditional medicine into the spotlight, but has offered a silver lining in the continent's efforts to integrate traditional medicine into mainstream ...

For Rhoda Munee, a smallholder farmer in eastern Kenya, the days when the land was bountiful are a distant memory. Decades ago, farmers were assured of bumper harvests at both ...

President Museveni has appointed Makerere University Business School (MUBs) don Ramathan Ggoobi as the permanent secretary Ministry of Finance, replacing Keith Muhakanizi who has been moved to office of the Prime ...

KAMPALA -- Washington's continued contradiction in the global fight against COVID-19 undermines efforts to eradicate the disease that is causing havoc in many countries, a Ugandan foreign policy analyst has ...

Police in Uganda have arrested two nurses and were hunting for a man who had posed as a doctor to sell and administer fake coronavirus vaccines to hundreds of people, authorities in ...