Author: Evans Kalyango

The Acting Director of the Fort Portal Regional Referral Hospital, Dr Oscar Kaliisa, has raised concerns about the high rate of outpatients seeking medical attention which affects service delivery due to their limited resources. Dr Kaliisa was speaking over the weekend while receiving a donation of five wheelchairs and a 10,000-litre water tank from Stanbic Bank Uganda. The bank also donated two 10,000-litre tanks and other scholastic items to Rusekere Secondary School. In total, both donations amounted to about UGX25m. “Almost 40% of the people attending the Out Patients Department (OPD) are casualties from motor accidents. Most people use boda-bodas…

President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has accused the Katikiro of Buganda Charles Peter Mayiga of spreading lies about the coffee sector amidst the hullabaloo and mumble regarding the rationalization of the Uganda Coffee Development Authority (UCDA) sending it back to the Ministry of Agriculture. In their campaign dubbed EMWANYI TELIMBA, the Buganda Kingdom has encouraged it’s subjects to engage in coffee farming as one of the ways to fight poverty and joblessness in Buganda and elsewhere in Uganda given the huge investment and market base of the Coffee within and beyond the Ugandan boarders especially in the European Union. ADVERT: AHEAD…

Speaker Anita Among was last week cornered in a tight corner after a video of her tribalizing the bill on the rationalization of Uganda Coffee Development Authority went viral. In the side video, during a break, Speaker Anita Among was heard telling a colleague that “DON’T ALLOW THOSE BAGANDA GET THE NUMBERS”. In her defense, parliament’s Director of Communication Chris Obore watered down the narrative pushing the speaker into a blame corner. Obore instead said the video was generated by Artificial Intelligence and Speaker had not committed a sin worthy an apology or even resignation as many Ugandans has suggested.…

Ahead of Museveni’s meeting with the NRM MPs at his Kisozi Farm in Gomba later this week with reports indicating that the president is meeting his party legislators over the contentious rationalization of the Uganda Coffee Development Authority (UCDA) back to it’s mother ministry, Katikiro Charles Peter Mayiga has clapped back at Museveni’s government. While addressing the concerns in a detailed document he addressed to his Bazukulu surrounding the rationalization of UCDA, Museveni lashed at those who are tribalizing the issue. Museveni claimed no one can teach him anything regarding coffee and he insists UCDA must be eliminated by hook…

The National Economic Empowerment Dialogue (NEED),  through its National Spokesperson Hon. Ssaalongo Matovu Moses, in today’s press Conference expressed deep concerns over recent trends in Uganda’s Parliament that undermine the unity of the nation, particularly around issues of tribalism. “NEED condemns the divisive actions observed in the House, with particular reference to remarks by Speaker Hon. Anitah Annette Among and we therefore call upon Members of Parliament (MPs) to set aside regional biases and unite in the best interest of the Ugandan people and the economy,” said the Spokesperson. Hon Matovu also highlighted recent efforts to rationalize the Uganda Coffee…

By Sando Martin The Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in-charge of regional  cooperation who is also the Member of Parliament for Samia Bugwe North constituency in Busia District, Hon. John Mulimba has grilled both the National Forestry Authority Officers at Busitema Forest and Busia police over extortion, torture, harassment of residents and detention of people including pregnant women after failing to arrest their husbands on allegations of cutting trees and collecting firewood from Busitema Forest. Grieved residents narrate that National Forestry Authority Officers have so far killed four people for being found in the forest cutting trees while others…

Following a poor run full of disappointments and embarrassments, Manchester United Head Coach Erik Ten Hag has been shown the exit at Old Trafford. The club has appointed former Manchester United Player Ruud van Nistelrooy as interim coach who will be supported by the entire coaching staff. Taking to their official website, Manchester United have issues a full statement; “Erik ten Hag has left his role as Manchester United men’s first-team manager. Erik was appointed in April 2022 and led the club to two domestic trophies, winning the Carabao Cup in 2023 and the FA Cup in 2024. We are…

In their thousands, Kampala cleaners have implored the President to consider pardoning ex-KCCA Executive Director Dorothy Kisaka and the other two directors with whom she was fired and subsequently put on trial over the 35 lives that were lost because of the Kiteezi disaster. Led by a one Menton, the cleaners are scattered in the five Divisions of Kampala and they are grateful that Kisaka deliberately set out to give them a chance at life by rehabilitating them from the street life and criminal past they had been addicted to for years. It was her initiative to get them involved…

Amidst the ‘MAKE SURE THOSE BAGANDA DON’T GET THE NUMBERS’ mumble by Speaker Anita Among, controversy continues to surround the rationalization of the Uganda Coffee Development Authority (UCDA). In a bid to save money spent on employees in government authorities and those in the mother ministries, government initiated a process of eliminating several Departments and Agencies (MDAs) and the affected employees would be compensated and move on with life. The Rural Electrification Agency was the first causality in the rationalization process followed by many including UNRA, Equal Opportunities Commission among others whose elimination bills are before parliament. ADVERT: FOR THE…

By Oweyegha-Afunaduula The coffee crop was first introduced around 1901 and was enthusiastically taken on by Ugandans in the Southern part of the country. Robusta has been the main coffee export of Uganda throughout the country’s history, and for good reason: it originally grew native to the beautiful Lake Victoria, where it was cultivated by the local Baganda people and used for cultural ceremonies, along with its supposed medicinal factors. It was not until the beginning of the 20th century, during British colonial rule, that British authorities introduced Arabica seeds in the Entebbe area, the headquarters of the government at…