Uganda News News Uganda » Government: Uganda targets 300 integrated government platforms under new data strategy
The Minister of State for ICT and National Guidance (Information), Joyce Nabbosa Ssebugwawo, on Wednesday officially launched Uganda's National Data Strategy 2026/27-2030/31 at Mestil Hotel in Kampala ...
News Uganda » Government: Uganda Government reiterates commitment to end TB by 2030
Uganda joined the rest of the world to commemorate International Tuberculosis (TB) Day, on March 24, 2023, with a commitment from Government and stakeholders to step up efforts to end the TB epidemic ...
News Uganda » Government: Uganda: Behind the government’s refinery deal with UAE’s Alpha
In January, the government in Uganda announced that it had entered negotiations with the Alpha MBM Group, a Dubai-based private investment company, which would make it the country’s partner for the ...
News Uganda » Government: Uganda’s Data Plan Draws Legal Challenge
Uganda's US$454 million National Data Strategy was launched on 20 October, and the national statistics bureau declared it illegal a day later.
News Uganda » Government: United Nations in Uganda stands in solidarity with the Government and people of Uganda in response to the Sudan virus disease outbreak
The United Nations in Uganda, under the leadership of the UN Resident Coordinator, stands in full solidarity with the Government and people of Uganda following the confirmation of an Ebola Virus ...
News Uganda » Government: Uganda seeks new IMF loan programme as government targets higher tax revenue
Uganda is seeking a new concessional lending programme from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), with Finance Minister Henry Musasizi pledging to implement policy measures needed to secure an ...
News Uganda » Government: Uganda launches Co-convenorship and Roadmap to the second Global Refugee Forum
KAMPALA - The Government of Uganda, through the Office of the Prime Minister, and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the UN refugee agency, launched the Uganda roadmap towards ...
News Uganda » Government: Uganda’s Government Rejects Torture Allegations
Uganda's government is rejecting claims that top officials, including President Yoweri Museveni and his son, were responsible for the torture of political opponents. The International Criminal Court ...
News Uganda » Government: Uganda Threatens to Close UN Human Rights Office
(Nairobi) – The Ugandan government should immediately reverse its decision to end the mandate of the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in Uganda, Human Rights ...
News Uganda » Government: Uganda government offers to drop military trial of hunger-striking opponent
Uganda's government said Sunday it would drop a military trial against opposition figurehead Kizza Besigye, urging him to give up his hunger strike in jail, a minister said. The pledge was promptly ...
News Uganda » Government: Uganda: Iron sheets scandal has top government officials on a tightrope
After facing a parliamentary investigations committee, the prime minister and other cabinet officials have more questions to answer at the Uganda Police’s Criminal Investigation Department (CID). The ...