Uganda plans to build a new city in an area near Kampala that’s adjacent to a square mile it has offered to R&B singer Akon for development as it seeks to reduce congestion in the capital.

In this explainer, we get to the bottom of the implications of Uganda’s current deficit which—per the central bank—narrowed to $3.6b

Jane Nabakooza, a pediatrician with Uganda’s malaria control program, said she expects the government will make Coartem Baby available to patients free of charge, even after losing funding when the U.S. shrank its foreign aid program earlier this year.

The Ugandan and South Sudanese armies have agreed to step up cooperation to address recurring border skirmishes, some of which have turned deadly, the Ugandan military said. Uganda’s top military chiefs met with a visiting South Sudanese delegation in Kampala,

Much of the mineral wealth never reaches communities—or even the national treasury. Instead, it quietly leaks away through illicit financial flows.

On her way back from school each afternoon, six-year-old N. K. walked past acres of leafy cassava plants, corn stalks, and bushels of bananas dangling over lily-white coffee blossoms. The sun shone brightly on the fertile volcano-soil fields in Bukumbula, a village outside the southwestern Ugandan city of Masaka.

Over 900 students have graduated as Cavendish University Uganda held its 14th graduation under the theme: "Empowering Futures: Cultivating Leaders for a Global Tomorrow."

The central bank also noted that the Nominal Effective Exchange Rate (NEER) appreciated by 1.8 percent year-on-year in July 2025, compared to a 2.7 percent appreciation in June,