If Derek Pomeroy said to meet him at 7am, you were expected to be there by exactly 7am—not a minute later. Punctuality was ...

UGANDA: The Islamic Development Bank has signed a US$800m financing agreement to support the Standard Gauge Railway and other ...

Kampala bets on infrastructure improvement to grow tourism industry, targeting 20 ...

The operator also hopes to increase rolling stock to service new strategic routes such as Tororo-Gulu, which will boost freight volumes. Uganda Railways Corporation (URC) is evaluating bids from ...

Mr Benon Kajuna has been appointed as Uganda Railways Corporation (URC)’s new managing director. He replaces Mr David Musoke Bulega who retired from service last year. Mr Kajuna has been the ...

KAMPALA, Aug 4 (Reuters) - Uganda has begun restoring a branch of a century-old, British-built railway line that is expected to cut the cost of shipping goods to the country's north, South Sudan ...

Arguably the single biggest foreign investment by a Turkish company happens to be a standard gauge railway constructed by Yapi Merkezi in Tanzania. In Uganda, the company has built an important ...

KAMPALA, Jan 12 (Reuters) - Uganda has terminated its contract with Chinese firm China Harbour and Engineering Company Ltd (CHEC) to build a railway to the Kenyan border and is now considering a ...

Uganda has finally repossessed Uganda Railways after Rift Valley Railways (RVR) ran it down for 12 years. The 120-year-old railway line was concessioned out in 2006 to what the revolutionary NRM ...

Uganda Railways Corporation, the company which operated rail transport in the country until the government passed its operations to a concessionaire in 2006 is set to return in September.

In the meantime, in order to ameliorate the transport deadlock in the city Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) in conjunction with Uganda Railways Corporation and Rift Valley Railways (RVR), a ...

Lady Florence Preston drives the last sleeper key at the edge of Lake Victoria on December 20, 1901, to mark the end of the Uganda Railway Project. PHOTO COURTESY OF HENRY LUBEGA This week ...