Why Ugandan businesses must go beyond transactions and care about customer well-being

Business executives must remember that customers are human beings navigating the same economic storms COMMENT | SIMON DDEMBE | The year 2025 has tested the resilience of many Ugandans. Business activity has remained sluggish, household incomes...

Museveni Urges Ugandans to “Get Out of Poverty” as He Seeks Another Term in Office

The long-serving Ugandan leader invokes faith and social responsibility in his campaign message ahead of the country’s upcoming general elections. Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has appealed to citizens to rise out of poverty, framing his call...

Uganda weighs a radical malaria fix

Scientists are testing genetic modification to collapse mosquito populations. What are the risks? HEALTH FEATURE | KEVIN GITHUKU | Malaria places a crushing burden on Uganda’s health system, as it does in many African countries. The disease...

The Zika Comeback: One Vaccine, One Hope

The Zika Comeback: One Vaccine, One Hope November 2, 2025 | Sunday | Opinion | By Hyun Soo Kim, Chief Executive Officer, Sun Biotech Singapore Asia, the epicenter of flaviviruses like Japanese encephalitis (JE), dengue, and Zika, faces both a...

Uganda multi-vehicle crash leaves 46 dead, renews road safety concerns

KAMPALA, Oct. 22 (Xinhua) -- After a multi-vehicle crash killed 46 people and injured several others in mid-western Uganda, fresh concerns have emerged over road safety in the East African country. Police said the accident occurred around 12:15...

Uganda head-on bus crash kills 46

KAMPALA, Uganda -- Two buses and two other vehicles crashed early Wednesday on a highway in western Uganda, killing at least 46 people, police said, in one of the worst collisions in the East African country in recent years. Police initially gave...

Uganda renews road safety concerns after multi-vehicle crash

Wreckages Kiryandongo, Uganda | Xinhua | After a multi-vehicle crash killed 46 people and injured several others in mid-western Uganda, fresh concerns have emerged over road safety in the East African country. Police said the accident occurred...

Meet the nurse in Uganda who climbs a 1,000-foot ladder to save lives

To reach the isolated eastern Uganda mountain communities that need her help, nurse Agnes Nambozo scales a treacherous 1,000-foot ladder that is too steep for small children, mothers carrying babies and the sick to climb down. John Yang reports....

Budgets that protect adolescent girls and young women are budgets that will grow Uganda

By protecting budgets that reach young women, Uganda will not only reduce HIV risk but also safeguard its human capital COMMENT | HELLEN DIANA ZAWEDDE | Uganda is paying a hidden development cost because many young women are acquiring new HIV...

Uganda Bus Collision Kills 46 in One of the Country’s Deadliest Road Accidents in Years

A midnight collision between two buses in western Uganda has left 46 people dead, exposing the country’s worsening road safety crisis and weak traffic enforcement. Emergency responders work at the scene of a fatal bus collision on the Gulu highway...

Uganda: At least 46 people killed in highway bus collision

Kampala: Police in Uganda say at least 46 people died in a bus crash on the highway linking the country's capital, Kampala, with the northern city of Gulu. The collision involved two long-distance buses and at least two other vehicles, including a...

Death toll from Marakwet East landslide rises to 26 as search continues for 25 missing

Nov 2 – The death toll from the Marakwet East landslide has risen to 26 after five more bodies were recovered on Sunday, the government has said, as rescuers continue to search for 25 people still missing following Friday night’s disaster in...

Uganda: Dozens killed in highway bus collision

Police in Uganda say at least 46 people died in a bus crash on the highway linking the country's capital, Kampala, with the northern city of Gulu. The collision involved two long-distance buses and at least two other vehicles, including a truck...

Will the Dutch send migrants to Uganda?

Reinette Klever, the former minister for foreign trade and development aid on behalf of Geert Wilders’s Freedom party, navigated her mere 11 months in office with relative ease and minimal controversy. She amiably took part in business missions...

Uganda bus crash kills at least 63

At least 63 people have died and several others were injured after two buses collided head-on in a horrific four-vehicle crash on the Kampala-Gulu Highway, one of Uganda’s busiest roads, police confirmed on Wednesday. The tragic accident occurred...

Mother of gap year medical student who vanished on safari in 2015 insists her daughter could still be alive - and claims evidence including her 'underwear hanging from a tree' could have been planted

The mother of a gap year student who vanished without trace ten years ago while on safari in Uganda says she believes her 'beautiful, gifted' daughter could still be alive - and blames local police for losing vital hours in the hunt for her. Dutch...

Clinical Trial Suggests New Antibody Can Prevent Malaria

Malaria is a leading cause of death among children in sub-Saharan Africa, and is to blame for over 600,000 deaths worldwide every year. But scientists have long been working to develop better preventive treatments for this disease, which is...

Housing Finance and C-Care bring health services closer to Katanga community

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | As part of ongoing Customer Service Month activities, Housing Finance Bank, in partnership with C-Care, organized a community health camp at St. Peter’s Church of Uganda in Katanga, Wandegeya. The initiative...

Drivers of Uptake of Immediate Postpartum Modern Contraceptives by Postpartum Women in Lira City, Northern Uganda: A Qualitative Inquiry

Background Globally, among the 1.9 billion women of reproductive age who have a need for contraception, only 1.1 billion are planning to use or are currently using a contraceptive method.1 The use of contraceptives of any method was estimated at...

Scaling Mountains and Restoring Lives in Uganda

October 24, 2025 Uganda Population: 48.6 million People Facing Hunger: 9.5 million Our Impact People Helped Last Year: 376,306 Our Team: 170 employees Program Start: 1995 A Community Volunteer’s Journey to Bring Help and Hope Since May 2024, the...