Uganda’s First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for East African Community Affairs, Rebecca Alitwala Kadaga, has dismissed circulating rumours about her alleged illness and hospitalisation, describing claims of her being critically ill as false and misleading. The rumours, which spread widely on social media over the weekend, suggested that Kadaga had been airlifted to Nairobi’s…
London, UK – Award-winning Ugandan journalist and founder of Her Story Uganda, Culton Scovia Nakamya, has earned her Master’s in Gender, Media and Culture from the London School of Economics (LSE). Nakamya, a 2024 Chevening Scholar, celebrated the milestone online, highlighting her perseverance through years of challenging reporting and online harassment. “Proof that steady determination…
Kampala — At dawn in Bukoto, shopkeeper Sarah Nakato wipes a thin brown film off her shelves before opening for the day. By midday, it will be back. “You clean in the morning, and by evening everything is dusty again,” she says, coughing slightly. “This dust is killing us slowly.” For many residents, this is…
Dr Frank Rubabinda Asiimwe, a consultant urologist at Mulago National Referral Hospital, is the new President of the Uganda Medical Association (UMA), marking a significant leadership transition for the country’s umbrella body of medical doctors. The announcement, confirmed through multiple official and professional platforms over the past week, has been widely welcomed across Uganda’s health…
Rev. Canon Prof. Grace Lubaale has today been consecrated as the fourth Bishop of Busoga diocese in a colourful ceremony, succeeding Rt. Rev. Paul Moses Samson Naimanhye, who retired after 9 years of service to the church. The consecration that was led by the Archbishop of the Church of Uganda, His Grace, the Most Rev….