Popular American internet personality and live streamer Darren Watkins Jr., widely known as IShowSpeed, is set to embark on an ambitious tour across 20 African countries, in what is expected to be one of the most high-profile digital influencer visits to the continent in recent years. According to information shared by Africa Facts Zone and…
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…
The Uganda Prisons Service (UPS) has reiterated strict guidelines on the use of social media by its officers, warning against defamation, subversion and partisan political activity, even as a recently dismissed prisons warder has joined the National Unity Platform (NUP) campaign trail. Commissioner of Prisons in charge of Political Commissariat and Chief Intelligence Officer, Moses…
Miss Uganda 2023/24 and first runner-up Miss World Africa, Hannah Karema, has been recognised for her impact beyond the runway after receiving the Positive Change Award for Social Impact in Fashion at the Abryanz Style & Fashion Awards 2025 (ASFAS) fashion showcase. Karema, a humanitarian and “Beauty with a Purpose” winner at the Miss World platform,…
The Ministry of Public Service has issued a directive to all accounting officers to ensure that all government workers and pensioners receive their payments by December 23, ahead of the Christmas holiday. The move is aimed at enabling public servants and pensioners to celebrate the festive season without financial disruption, according to a statement shared…