The Public Lens

For three hours on the last Saturday of every month, Uganda will fall silent. No boda bodas will growl through...

Uganda has stepped up its commitment to regional disease control after President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni pledged comprehensive support to the...

He served under Idi Amin, fought as a rebel against Milton Obote, made peace with Yoweri Museveni, and died at...

From stolen engines and drowning fishermen to oil-rich border disputes and transnational trafficking routes, Uganda's water bodies have long needed...

On a hill that Uganda's own traffic authorities have long labelled a death trap, a school bus carrying 107 young...

Inside a four-day retreat in Kampala, Permanent Secretary Vincent Bagiire Waiswa is rebooting the way Uganda's diplomatic missions understand their...

Behind the government announcement of emergency evacuation flights lies a story decades in the making — of broken promises, hardening...

From the ABC campaigns of the 1980s to a near-perfect injectable available in over a hundred health facilities today, Uganda's...

In a lecture hall steeped in liberation history, the government has told those charged with managing Uganda's most ambitious youth...

A politician who rose from grassroots mobilisation and microfinance empowerment now holds one of the most consequential desks in Ugandan...

After years of broken promises, funding crises, and six extensions of expired terms, Uganda's Electoral Commission has announced a July...

A Region on Edge The numbers tell a sobering story. As of November 2025, the number of East Africans facing...