Uganda and Tanzania have agreed to strengthen bilateral cooperation in energy development, trade facilitation, infrastructure connectivity and regional peace following high-level talks held in Dar es Salaam. The renewed commitments were announced during a joint press briefing addressed by President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni and his host, President Samia Suluhu Hassan, after bilateral discussions between delegations…
KAMPALA — The Minister of State for Higher Education, Hon. Dr John Chrysostom Muyingo, has inaugurated the 12th Uganda National Examinations Board (UNEB) Board, calling for renewed commitment to integrity, accountability, and innovation in the management of national examinations. Dr Muyingo officiated at the ceremony on behalf of the First Lady and Minister of Education…
President Yoweri Museveni has moved to stabilise Uganda Airlines by engaging a veteran Ethiopian Airlines executive as an interim leader and consultant, as the national carrier grapples with heavy financial losses, governance issues, and leadership shake-ups. Former Ethiopian Airlines CEO Girma Wake — who led that airline from 2004 to 2011 and is widely credited…
Harriet Chemutai, chair of the National Unity Platform’s Election Management Committee, has been released after being abducted from her home in Kapchorwa late on February 4, 2026, the party says. NUP reported that Chemutai was taken around 11 p.m. by a group of more than 50 armed men who accused her of hiding opposition leader…
South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir Mayardit has dismissed two senior presidential aides following an extraordinary administrative error in which a presidential decree named a deceased politician to a key committee preparing for the country’s long-awaited national elections. A Republican Order issued on January 30, 2026, listed Steward Soroba Budia, a member of the opposition United…