North's First
Globally, a 2026 study across 47 countries found steep reductions in community-led services, including cuts of 50% to community-led support for HIV prevention medicines and care.
The green economy must not become the latest justification for old injustices. Africa deserves an energy future that is not only renewable but also fair.
In contemporary Uganda, the truth has become an endangered species, writes Prof. Oweyegha-Afunaduula.
Growing anti-rights and anti-gender pushbacks are trying to reverse whatever progress has been made on gender and health rights, especially for girls and women and gender diverse communities.
While the Fourth National Development Plan (NDP IV) has set a target to reduce the cost of paved roads to shs3.1 billion per kilometre, achieving this goal demands more than good intentions.
Uganda’s total budget grew faster than its education share, and Uganda has been spending around 2.3% of GDP on education on average since 2018/19.
We should embrace the new taxes “with pleasure,” as the DFCU bank slogan says.
If Lango aligns itself with the priorities reflected in this budget, the sub-region has the potential to become one of Uganda’s most dynamic centres of agricultural commercialisation, and industrial growth.
Like a river picking up sediment, Uganda’s governance is carrying seven dogmas that block critical reasoning.
In many rural districts, local councillors emerge directly from communities shaped by poverty, interrupted schooling, informal labour, and limited educational opportunities.
For no republic in history has permanently escaped the consequences of weakening its own institutions to preserve the ambitions of prolonged power.
Menstruating girls and women face discrimination at home, in the education system, and all along.
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