The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has officially launched the implementation of its Africa-BB-Maps project, a ...

Seven years after a controversial map of Uganda that omitted the name “Buganda” was discarded—and apologies made and accepted ...

The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and the European Commission have launched a broadband mapping project to identify connectivity gaps in Africa. • The initiative, covering 11 countries, ...

Around the world, plastics are finding their way into farm fields. Some farmers say agricultural plastic, already a necessity ...

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS) has clarified that Buganda has not been removed ...

As Uganda’s first wildlife vet, Dr. Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka has spent 30 years working to restore Uganda’s mountain gorilla population, which until recently, was critically endangered. Thanks to her ...

WHAT’S UP! I like hills. There is something about hills that appeals to one, it might be that as you approach, you see a challenge right there in front of you. And soon you have overcome that ...

Cases of mpox disease have increased in Uganda over the past six weeks, surpassing those of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), says the World Health Organization (WHO). In the weeks spanning ...

Image Outside a domestic-work training center in Kampala, Uganda, last year. Remittances from foreign workers are a significant source of income in the country. Image Studying at the training ...

KAMPALA, Uganda—The property manager of a shabby office building ... Next door, 64-year-old Mohamed Bashir sells leather bags he embosses with elephants and maps of Africa. Bashir fled Sudan after ...

Uganda Deploys Special Forces to South Sudan to Protect the Government as Fears of Civil War Grow KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Uganda has deployed an unknown number of troops to South Sudan in a bid ...