Author: Hellenah Niwasiima

Uganda Airlines will resume its long-haul services to London and Mumbai on March 7, 2026, ending a suspension that left intercontinental passengers stranded for several weeks following an unplanned grounding of the airline’s wide-body fleet. The national carrier confirmed the resumption in a travel advisory issued on Thursday, March 5, saying flights between Entebbe International Airport and the two cities would restart as scheduled. The airline did not, however, clarify whether all technical work on the affected aircraft had been fully completed before their return to service. The disruption began on February 20 when Uganda Airlines grounded both of its…

The Electoral Commission (EC) has announced March 12 as the date for residual elections in areas where polls for LC3, Town Council, and Municipal Division Chairpersons and councillors were not conducted during the main election cycle. EC’s Julius Mucunguzi said the Commission has put all District Returning Officers and field staff on notice, with firm instructions that no area should be left out of the exercise. The residual elections are the last remaining item on a general election calendar that has run since January, when Ugandans voted for the President and Members of Parliament. Several areas at the local government…

Wildlife tourism has returned to the centre of the country’s economic conversation, with the Uganda Wildlife Authority reporting that visitor numbers and earnings have not only recovered from the COVID-19 slump but are pushing past what the sector was recording before the pandemic shut down international travel. For a country whose forests shelter half the world’s remaining mountain gorillas and whose parks hold some of East Africa’s most intact ecosystems, the rebound was perhaps inevitable. But officials say it has not happened by chance. The authority has spent the recovery years investing heavily in the kind of conservation infrastructure that…