Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | MTN Uganda starts their “20 years in Uganda” celebrations with a futuristic expo at Kololo on Friday. “Celebrating the past, inspiring the future”, is the theme of a six-month-long celebration campaign to mark the double decade milestone of MTN’s existence in Uganda. The expo …

Kampala, Uganda | JULIUS BUSINGE | Experts in agriculture and information technology want farming communities to be supported through digital tools such as phones as a mechanism of encouraging them not to leave agriculture. The tools such as phones are popularly being used as avenues to facilitate communication and payments to …

  London, UK | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Museveni has made a passionate plea to the British business community to invest in Africa and in Uganda in particular. He said the British they have the capital, skills, entrepreneurship and knowledge to make profit while the continent needs to create …

Goma, DR Congo | AFP |  The Democratic Republic of Congo’s region of Kivu, where 2018 Nobel Peace Prize winner doctor Denis Mukwege is based, has been caught up in conflict and war for 24 years. The fighting inflicts on Kivu — which is divided into North and South provinces …

  Kampala, Uganda | AGNES E NANTABA | Little was known about Dr. Annette Kezaabu not until she was appointed to head a nine member committee ‘Uganda Pornography Control Committee’ in the ministry of Ethics and Integrity. In line with the Anti-Pornography act, the committee’s main role is to curb down the …

Kampala, Uganda | HAGGAI MATSIKO | On Aug.3, at exactly 8:45am, Central Bank Governor, Emmanuel Tumusiime Mutebile arrived at the Finance Ministry, where he had been summoned for a meeting at exactly 9:00am. Finance Minister, Matia Kasaija, had asked him to come and explain why his team had criticized the mobile …

Uganda plans to intensify relations in trade, tourism and investment Kampala, Uganda | JULIUS BUSINGE | Trade between Africa and India has recorded a 30% decline in volume from US$78billion in 2014 to about $55 billion in 2017 citing a tough economic environment. However, this was more than seven times higher …

  Kampala, Uganda | IN THE INDEPENDENT | The top stories in this week’s THE INDEPENDENT. COVER STORY Ochola: Good cop, but for how long?: Mending a force haunted by Gen. Kayihura ghosts THE LAST WORD Inside Africa’s real tragedy: How the ideology of a welfare state has destroyed our …

Kampala, Uganda | GODFREY SSALI | Justice Catherine Bamugemereire has issued fresh summons for Lands Minister Betty Amongi after she failed to appear on Monday as requested by Uganda’s Commission of Inquiry into land matters. The Chairperson Land Probe Commission Justice Bamugemeire threatened to order for the arrest of the minister if …

SIM cards can now be replaced, but only at a few centers Kampala, Uganda |THE INDEPENDENT | Telecom companies have resumed replacement of SIM cards at selected outlets across the country. This comes after several complaints about the hustle people go through to have their cards a thing that forced cabinet …