“Don’t Send It Here, Use the Other Line, I have Loan Issues”, FSDU’s Kasujja Pins GROW Fights On Uganda’s Character Crisis.
“No river flows free to the sea without passing through rocks”, an old proverb that framed Wednesday’s Women's Day debate at Jinja’s Source of the Nile Hotel. Heifer International Uganda had convened women entrepreneurs to mark International Women’s Day, but the session quickly turned on the barriers to GROW funds and other loan schemes. Speaker after speaker, mostly women running micro‑businesses,...
“Use-Rights Alone Will Not Feed Uganda”: Busitema University Deputy VC Prof Biira Urges Land Reform As Heifer International Pushes Women-Led Agribusinesses.
“Yonder woman holds the hoe that feeds a village and the title that could transform a nation”, Prof Saphina Biira the Deputy Vice Chancellor in charge of Academic Affairs and Research at Busitema University reminded listeners at the Source of the Nile Hotel in Jinja City. She was underscoring a stark figure that only about of 20% of Ugandan women...
Gen MK Lauds Outgoing Russian Ambassador Semivolos As Uganda-Russia Military Partnership Enters Next Phase.
“Friendship between states, like that between men is cemented in times that test them”, Uganda’s Chief of Defense Forces (CDF) Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba said, quoting a maxim he keeps by his desk as he bid farewell to His Excellency Vladlen Semivolos, the outgoing Ambassador of the Russian Federation to Uganda, at the end of a tour defined by deepening military cooperation. During a farewell call...
Jinja District Rolls Out Month-long Sanitation Drive Under “Accelerating Safely Managed Sanitation” & World Water Day Celebrations Set For 14 April in Chairman Moses Batwala’s Butagaya Sub County.
“When you drink that thirst-quenching cold clean water, remember who dug the well”, goes an old popular wise saying among many African communities and from 16th March to 14 April,2026, the proverb is being lived out village by village in Jinja district. Jinja District Local Government Sanitation Week 2026 began on a positive note with a series of activities from 16 March...
No, It Is Not What You Think: Bibi’s “Jesus No Advantage Over Genghis Khan” Quote Sparks Global Misplaced Mockery and Memes, Yet Not Blasphemy.
The Israeli’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s throw‑away comparison, “Jesus Christ has no advantage over Genghis Khan”, reads like a briefing‑room epigraph for realism. To some people, including men of God across pulpits from Jinja, Kampala to Nairobi and Lagos, Netanyahu’s quip landed not as political realism but as a blasphemy that a sitting Prime Minister can suggest that God’s son...
Jinja City Clears Streets & Napier Market As Butembe MP-Elect Kirya Wanzala Warns ‘You Are Serious Alone’ About Trade Order’s Shelf-Life.
Weeks after the Ministry of Local Government’s “Trade Order” campaign landed in Jinja City, officials say verandas, back-streets and corridors along the many streets have been cleared. Temporary and illegal structures in the once-popular Napier Market, known for its cheap prices especially of second-hand clothes known as ‘mivumbas’ and shoes, as well as foods and fruits in not-so- nice eating...
UPDF Marks First Attack-Free Ramadan As Somali Elders Thank M7 For Joint Iftar Outreach.
MOGADISHU —The Uganda Peoples’ Defence Forces (UPDF) personnel serving under the African Union Support and Stabilization Mission in Somalia (AUSSOM) hosted Eid al‑Fitr gatherings in Mogadishu’s Sector One and the suburb of Aribiska, using the festival to spotlight a rare stretch of calm in the capital and deepen ties with Somali civilians. At Sector One headquarters, the African Union Commission Chairperson’s Special...
Archbishop-Elect Prof Mugume Puts Record Straight, Ascension Not About Gehenna But Holy Saturday Was Paradise Visit.
At a weekend conference on resurrection doctrine, Archbishop‑Elect Professor Mugume Bagambaki Richard, the Ecclesiastical Episcopal Conference Archbishop of Upper City Covenant Churches, used the Ascension liturgy to launch a close reading of Christ’s three days in the grave. Prof Mugume is also the President of Five-Fold Episcopal World Federation and President UCCSAT University. For context, ascension refers to the bodily rising of Jesus to...
UPDF Officers Graduate In French, Boosting Mission-Ready Skills.
Master the language, master the mission.” That maxim framed the graduation on 19 March, when UPDF officers collected diplomas in French after a nine‑month course at Jinja’s Junior Command and Staff College. The ceremony, hosted at French Ambassador Virginie Leroy’s Kampala residence, was billed as a marker of deepening Uganda‑France military cooperation. “The French language belongs to those who speak it, who want...
UPDF Donates Food to Muslim Communities in Nakulabye Ahead of Eid al Fitr.
The Uganda Peoples’ Defense Forces (UPDF) donated assorted food items to Muslim communities, among them members of the Al‑Wihida Development Group in Bukesa Katende Zone, Nakulabye, for Eid al‑Fitr that Muslims celebrate globally. Colonel John Bosco Kalyango, Head of Plans in the Directorate of Civil‑Military Cooperation, delivered the items and urged Muslims to carry the Ramadan spirit of peace beyond...
