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Uganda plans new rail link to Tanzania for mineral export boost

Railway

Uganda plans new rail link to Tanzania for mineral export boost

Elias Biryabarema 4 hours

Tanzania lifts agricultural import ban on South Africa, Malawi

Agro-processing

Tanzania lifts agricultural import ban on South Africa, Malawi

Nuzulack Dausen 29 Apr 2025

Source: Reuters.

Public Health

Uganda declares end to latest ebola outbreak

Elias Biryabarema 28 Apr 2025

Kenyan President William Ruto speaks at a press conference where he announced spending cuts in government after protests against the proposed finance bill 2024/2025, in Nairobi, Kenya, 5 July 2024. Reuters/Monicah Mwangi/File Photo

Legislation & Regulation

Kenya's supreme court quashes ruling that voided 2023 finance law

Humphrey Malalo and Elias Biryabarema 30 Oct 2024

A bird perches on an elephant as it walks at the Amboseli National Park in Kajiado County, Kenya,4 April 2024. Reuters/Monicah Mwangi/File Photo

Environment & Natural Resources

Conservationists ask Tanzania to ban sport hunting of elephants

Elias Biryabarema 14 Aug 2024

Source: Andrew Thomas via

Aviation

Kenya aviation workers plan strike over Adani airport deal

Humphrey Malalo 12 Aug 2024

Uganda in talks with Chinese credit agency to fund pipeline

Infrastructure & Utilities

Uganda in talks with Chinese credit agency to fund pipeline

Elias Biryabarema 26 Sep 2023

Kampala, Uganda. Source: Keith Kasaija/Unsplash

Telecoms & Networks

MTN launches first 5G network in Uganda

Elias Biryabarema 28 Jul 2023

Africa needs grain imports, key states say ahead of Putin talks

Agribusiness

Africa needs grain imports, key states say ahead of Putin talks

Carien du Plessis, Chris Mfula and Elias Biryabarema 15 Jun 2023

File photo: Quin Karala, 29, a member of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and queer (LGBTQ) community and a single mother of one poses for a picture with rainbow colours at the offices of Rella Women's Empowerment Program, for LGBTQ rights advocacy, after a Reuters interview in Kulambiro suburb of Kampala, Uganda 4 April 2023. Reuters/Abubaker Lubowa/File Photo

Human Rights Law

Uganda's president asks for changes to LGBT bill so identity is not criminalised

Elias Biryabarema 28 Apr 2023

Public Health

Tanzania detects its first-ever cases of the highly fatal Marburg viral disease

Elias Biryabarema 22 Mar 2023

Ugandan legislators participate in the debate of the Anti-Homosexuality bill, which proposes tough new penalties for same-sex relations during a sitting at the Parliament building in Kampala, Uganda 21 March 2023. Reuters/Abubaker Lubowa

Legislation & Regulation

Uganda passes a law making it a crime to identify as LGBTQ

Elias Biryabarema 22 Mar 2023

Uganda plans to start nuclear power generation by 2031 - minister

Nuclear Power

Uganda plans to start nuclear power generation by 2031 - minister

Elias Biryabarema 10 Mar 2023

Image source: Maksim Kabakou –

Media & Entertainment Law

Uganda court quashes part of law used against government critics

Elias Biryabarema 11 Jan 2023

Uganda coffee exports drop 15%, hurt by drought

Agro-processing

Uganda coffee exports drop 15%, hurt by drought

Elias Biryabarema 28 Dec 2022

Uganda says it will not renew Eskom's hydropower licences next year

Energy

Uganda says it will not renew Eskom's hydropower licences next year

Elias Biryabarema 12 Dec 2022

Uganda court hands life sentence to man caught with elephant ivory

Environment & Natural Resources

Uganda court hands life sentence to man caught with elephant ivory

Elias Biryabarema 21 Oct 2022

Uganda says coffee exports down 14% year-on-year due to drought

Agro-processing

Uganda says coffee exports down 14% year-on-year due to drought

Elias Biryabarema 20 Oct 2022

Image source: Polina Tankilevitch from

Legislation & Regulation

Media groups ask Uganda's top court to scrap law over free speech fears

Elias Biryabarema 18 Oct 2022

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni attends a news conference following talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Entebbe, Uganda 26 July 2022. Russian Foreign Ministry/Handout via Reuters

Media & Entertainment Law

Ugandan president signs law critics say will stifle free speech

Elias Biryabarema 14 Oct 2022

Source: Reuters. Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni attends a news conference.

Public Health

Ebola kills doctor in Uganda, first health worker killed in latest outbreak

Elias Biryabarema 3 Oct 2022

Source: Reuters. Ugandan health workers speak to members of the community before carrying out the first vaccination exercise against the ebola virus in Kirembo village.

Healthcare

Uganda says Ebola caseload rises to 16 as outbreak grows

Elias Biryabarema 27 Sep 2022

Public Health

Uganda declares Ebola outbreak after Sudan strain found

Elias Biryabarema 21 Sep 2022

Uganda coffee exports plunge 29% in August on impact of drought

Agro-processing

Uganda coffee exports plunge 29% in August on impact of drought

Elias Biryabarema 21 Sep 2022

Source: Reuters.

Banking

Stanbic Bank Uganda's half-year profit up over 7% on cost control

Elias Biryabarema 24 Aug 2022

Source: Reuters/Denis Balibouse. WHO regional director for Africa Matshidiso Moeti.

Healthcare

Kenya, World Health Organization launch emergency hub

Ayenat Mersie, Elias Biryabarema and Jason Neely 11 Jul 2022

Ugandan researchers develop low-cost sensors to track air pollution

Circular Economy & Waste Management

Ugandan researchers develop low-cost sensors to track air pollution

Elias Biryabarema 31 May 2022

Kenyan conservationist Richard Leakey has died

Environment & Natural Resources

Kenyan conservationist Richard Leakey has died

Elias Biryabarema and George Obulutsa 3 Jan 2022

Seychelles appoints airline administrators amidst debt row

Travel

Seychelles appoints airline administrators amidst debt row

Elias Biryabarema 6 Oct 2021

Source: Shoprite Group

Retailers

Carrefour's franchisee acquires Shoprite's 6 stores in Uganda

Elias Biryabarema 16 Sep 2021

MTN dominance forces Africell to exit Uganda operations

Telecoms & Networks

MTN dominance forces Africell to exit Uganda operations

8 Sep 2021

Uganda suspends 54 NGOs' operations, pressure mounts on charities

NGO, NPO & Social Enterprise

Uganda suspends 54 NGOs' operations, pressure mounts on charities

Elias Biryabarema 20 Aug 2021

France's Orange submits interest for stake in Ethio Telecom

Telecoms & Networks

France's Orange submits interest for stake in Ethio Telecom

Dawit Endeshaw 21 Jul 2021

Samuel Dhol Ayeun, a trainee doctor who fled from South Sudan to Uganda. ReuterAbubaker Lubowa

Education & Training

"I made it," says South Sudanese who fled to Uganda

Francis Mukasa, 21 Jun 2021

Uganda opposition leader Bobi Wine files election challenge in court

Legal

Uganda opposition leader Bobi Wine files election challenge in court

1 Feb 2021

Media

Old man gets what he deserves

Walter Wafula 10 Mar 2008

Media

IBJ Awards to honour top business reporters

Walter Wafula 14 Jan 2008