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Uganda Industry NewsUPDF Engineers Deliver 87% Complete MoDVA HQ by 2026
There is a moment on Mbuya Hill, usually just after the morning parade has dispersed and the machines have warmed up again, when the scale of what Uganda is building for itself becomes impossible to ignore.
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Uganda Industry NewsUganda MPs Benchmark Kenya Railways for 2026 Cargo
There is a particular kind of irony that follows Ugandan delegations whenever they cross the border to study how other people do things. We have become a nation of professional benchmarkers, a country that produces more study tours than finished roads, more reports than railway...
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Uganda Industry NewsGen Muhoozi Kainerugaba Lists 5 People He Fears on Earth
There is a moment in every political season when a single sentence travels faster than any press release, any baraza, any carefully scripted television interview.
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Uganda Industry NewsBalaam Meets New Tooro Omukama After Karambi Rituals
The road to Karambi is not a road you simply drive. It is a road you submit to. It winds through the green shoulders of Kabarole, past tea gardens that look combed by hand, past trading centres where boda riders pause mid-journey to argue about football, past the cool mist that...
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Celebrity & EntertainmentDr Cephcoh: The Fearless TikTok Voice Redefining Uganda’s Entertainment Industry
The first thing you notice about Dr Cephcoh is not the lab coat, and it is certainly not the stethoscope that occasionally swings into frame like a prop from a forgotten Nollywood set. It is the timing.
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Celebrity & EntertainmentTooro Burial Ritual: 9 Coffee Beans & Leopard Skin
The image that refuses to leave my mind is not the wailing, not the drums, not the sea of black cloth at the palace gates. It is nine small coffee beans, held in a prince's palm, then cast into the earth. Nine. Not eight, not ten.
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Celebrity & EntertainmentDr Cephcoh: The Fearless TikTok Voice Redefining Uganda's Entertainment Industry
There is a particular kind of silence in a Ugandan living room when the television is on and nobody is really watching. Then a phone lights up, a TikTok clip begins to play, and suddenly three people are leaning in, arguing, laughing, and quoting lines they will repeat for the...
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Uganda Industry NewsHow Balam Barugahara Won Museveni's Ear and Reshaped Uganda's Cabinet
There was a time, not so long ago, when the surest way to read the mood of power in Kampala was to watch the lineup at a state function. Who sat near the President, who was waved through the VIP rope, who got the microphone last.
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Uganda Industry NewsAmapiano Takes Over Uganda: The 2026 Sound Revolution
The first time Amapiano truly announced itself in Kampala, it did not arrive like a conqueror. It crept in. A log drum here, a shaker there, a soft piano riff floating under a song that seemed to have no interest in rushing anywhere.
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Uganda Industry NewsTooro In Crisis: Mwenda Accuses Queen Mother Of Murder And Forgery
FORT PORTAL. The casket of a king should never have to be carried by soldiers. That is the first thing to sit with, because everything else in this sad and furious story flows from that single, shameful image: the body of Omukama Oyo Nyimba Kabamba Iguru Rukidi IV moved by armed...
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