The Uganda People’s Congress (UPC) party leader, Jimmy Akena Obote, is set to conduct a countrywide mobilization tour this...

In a bid to reduce the number of households still gripped in subsistence economic activities and ways of survival...

On Wednesday, January 1st, 2025 youths drawn from the luo communities living in the four counties of Homabay, Siaya,...

The Ateker people, who reside across several East African countries, including Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Sudan, have long shared linguistic and cultural ties.

President Museveni’s focus on agriculture as a pillar of Uganda’s economy has yielded significant gains; however, sustained progress depends on embracing government programs like the Parish Development Model (PDM) and leveraging available resources to enhance productivity. With collective effort, Uganda’s vision of becoming a middle-income country is within reach, driven by a thriving agricultural sector.

UBOS has been under scrutiny by the public, citing significant errors in tribal population data from the 2024 census provisional report, and this has had many stops to trust the results. The Bureau admitted to having mistakenly interchanged figures for the Bagisu and Bakiga tribes, and the UBOS ED Mukiza described the discrepancies as human errors occurring during the final reporting stage.

The government aims at making the country a market leader in the generation and dissemination of appropriate agricultural technologies for sustainable development in semi-arid regions that cover the cattle corridor and five other agro-ecological zones comprising the Eastern Savanna (Teso) region, Karamoja dry lands, Lango, Acholi, and west Nile sub-regions.

The government is left with a task to create new policies and emphasize the need to develop strategies for building a sustainable resource base to finance Food and Nutrition Service interventions, for example, through attracting foreign direct investment into the agriculture sector and embracing a stronger financial commitment to increase public funding to agriculture and other sectors.