Science and Technology

The Minister of State for Economic Monitoring, Rose Lilly Akello, has confirmed that Uganda is headed toward having its first oil production by 2025. The Minister made the assurance on October 18, 2024, while on a monitoring mission in the Buliisa and Tilenga oil fields of the Bunyoro sub-region. The Oil drilling program which was commissioned on January 23, 2023, by H.E Yoweri Kaguta Museveni Uganda acts as a key milestone as the country races to meet its target of first...

The Uganda Railways Corporation (URC) has confirmed plans to launch the passenger train service effective next month. The Mukono - Kampala train route is expected to be functional effective November 1, 2024. The development was brought to light by Andrew Muguluma the URC board member who doubles as chairperson at the Technical Committee at a media briefing on October 10, 2024. The railway line has been under full renovation since April 2023 with the replacement of the old steel slippers with concrete...

The British High Commission in Kampala has announced that the UK will provide £1M ( UGX 4.7 Bn) to Baylor College of Medicine and the Infectious Disease Institute to support Uganda’s response to the current Mpox outbreak. This development was confirmed on Thursday, October 10, 2024, on the Ministry of Health’s official X handle. According to the ministry, the support delivered through these expert partners will be aligned with the Government of Uganda’s overall Mpox response plan to strengthen the coordination...

As Uganda gears up to celebrate her Independence Day on October 9, 2024, Uganda’s economy has tremendously grown 37 times in size compared to that of 1986, when the National Resistance Movement (NRM) government under the leadership of President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni came into power. Besides the rapid growth, Uganda’s economy has undergone political instability, civil war, and fluctuating global commodity prices as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. As a result, with the coming of President Museveni after five years...

President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has launched Uganda's largest hydroelectric power plant in Karuma, Kiryandongo district, which is expected to generate 600 MW compared to Uganda's oldest hydroelectric facility, Nalubale (Owen Falls Dam), which was commissioned in 1954 with a capacity of 180 MW. During the commissioning ceremony on September 6, 2024, in Kiryandongo district, the President highlighted the need for Uganda to have enough electricity for a modern person in normal circumstances. "We have had plans of having low costs of...

The Deputy Director General of the Internal Security Organization, ISO Colonel Emmy Katabazi, has tasked young people to embrace mindset change and discipline in order to achieve social transformation in the country. Col. Katabazi was on Wednesday, September 18th, 2024, addressing the student leaders during the annual district students council siting for Buvuma district at Nairambi Seed School and was organized by the Uganda National Students Association, UNSA. The student leaders’ council sitting was attended by all three secondary schools, including...