Tag: Uganda

The East and Horn of Africa has been hit hard by the impacts of COVID-19, leaving 54 million people acutely food insecure last year, according to a joint report by ...

Uganda stands to be one of Sub-Saharan Africa’s top five oil producers by 2025 With the East African Oil Pipeline project recently getting the go-ahead, Uganda is set to produce ...

The International Criminal Court on Thursday sentenced Dominic Ongwen, a former Ugandan child soldier who became a commander of the Lord's Resistance Army, a rebel group, to 25 years of ...

The U-17 Africa Cup of Nations has been cancelled by the Confederation of African Football only five days before the tournament was set to kick-off, amidst ongoing concerns about the ...

For Joshua Cheptegei and Peres Jepchirchir, 2020 has been a year to remember, but the one thing missing has been a major championship medal. At the World Athletics Half Marathon Championships ...

It is well known that a societal fabric is only as strong as the social threads that hold it together. African communal structures and events are centered on socializing, from ...

British Prime Minister Winston Churchill once referred to Uganda as the "Pearl of Africa" for its "magnificence, for variety of form and color, for profusion of brilliant life". Churchill wasn't ...

Emmanuel Tumusiime Mutebile, the Central Bank governor, said the worst may not be over. "The economic outlook is extremely uncertain, largely because of the unpredictable intensity and duration of the ...

Uganda has been confirmed as a member of the Extractives Industry Transparency Initiative (EITI), a global standard body that promotes transparency, accountability and good governance in the management of extractive ...

Prof Pontiano Kaleebu, the UVRI Director, told Daily Monitor yesterday that they are completing necessary internal processes before beginning to enrol volunteers for the trial. "We are working on a ...