One of Uganda’s biggest telecommunications company, Airtel Uganda, has entered a partnership with Microsoft’s official cloud partner MC3. The partnership intends to provide Microsoft Office 365 services to businesses in Uganda. Customers will be enabled access to Microsoft Cloud services in a bid to help them improve business operations. It will also be a way of improving the security of ...

Sources in the Health Ministry have revealed the government’s plans to put quinine back in the main malaria treatment medicines. It will also bring back Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT), a pesticide to kill mosquitoes. This is due to the continued increase in malaria cases in the country. However, the ministry said the increase is due to the new species of mosquitoes and ...

September 21 is the date fixed by court for the trial of two Uganda National Roads Authority(UNRA officials. The two are accused of causing financial loss to the tune of shs11.8b and the hearing will start on the set date. The employees are Eng. Gilbert Kibuuka and John Mbidde, a supply officer. They are scheduled to appear before the Anti-Corruption ...

Commercial banks have revealed that they will also hike interest rates after the Central Bank hiked the lending rate. Over the past couple of months, Bank of Uganda has increased the CBR to 8.5%. Anne Juuko, the chief executive officer of Stanbic Uganda said this move by Bank of Uganda is apparently the only solution to inflation. However, it also ...

The Ministry of Health has revealed that it will begin the mass vaccination of children between 12 and 17 against Covid-19 today. Mr. Emmanuel Ainebyoona, the spokesperson of the Health ministry spoke to the press yesterday. In his address, he appealed to parents to take their children for vaccination saying it is essential for effective control of the pandemic. He ...