The Kampala City Festival, East Africa's biggest city celebration, is making a bold comeback on Sunday, October 5th, 2025 and this time, it's more than a street party.

When the giant landfill collapsed in Uganda's capital Kampala a year ago, Zamhall Nansamba thought she was hearing an ...

The city’s crime rate per capita is almost 10 times higher than its population share suggests. The bulk of these are thefts and burglaries, which make up 60 percent of the city's crime ...

The President, who made the comments in a statement shared yesterday afternoon through micro-blogging site X, formerly ...

The East African Community (EAC) has officially launched the EACBond, a groundbreaking regional customs guarantee instrument ...

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Kampala City Traders Association (KACITA) has appointed Issa Sekitto as Acting ...

Mayor Eric Adams’ re-election campaign got a boost from scores of city faith leaders at an endorsement event in front of City ...

Nineteen people were killed and 13 others injured after a lorry overturned in the western Uganda district of Hoima, police ...

At dawn, the air around Kiteezi landfill is thick—part fumes, part decay, part quiet anxiety. It’s here, on the city’s ...

Jamil Kasirye, the legendary goalkeeper who helped guide the Uganda Cranes to the 1978 Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) final, is now battling ill health and poverty -- and is appealing to the public and ...

Queer romance “Kachifo, Till The Morning Comes,” Johannesburg-set funeral farce “Death & Its Friends” and feel-good heist ...