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Inside the halls of the Raxio Data Centre in Namanve, Uganda quietly made a statement about its digital future. Servers blinked behind reinforced glass. Cooling systems hummed softly. Engineers guided guests past rows of neatly stacked hardware, the physical backbone of something less visible but increasingly vital: data. On Thursday, Uganda officially launched ABQ Cloud, a sovereign cloud platform designed to keep the country’s data within its borders and reduce reliance on foreign tech giants. The event, held at the Deep Tech Hub, brought together officials from the Science, Technology and Innovation Office of the President (STI-OP), alongside executives from…

Uganda’s Vice President, Jessica Alupo, has warned that technological advancement without strong ethical grounding could be harmful to society, urging graduates to combine innovation with integrity as the country’s education system embraces artificial intelligence. Alupo made the remarks while presiding over the 16th graduation ceremony of St. Lawrence University, where she serves as chancellor. The ceremony, held on Thursday as the institution marked its 19th anniversary, saw more than 456 students awarded certificates, diplomas, bachelor’s degrees, postgraduate diplomas and master’s degrees. Addressing the graduates, Alupo said universities must ensure that students become innovators and responsible leaders in the digital age…

The fighting occurred near Sake town, about 27 kilometres from Goma City, North Kivu province. Lt Col Ndjike Kaiko Guilaume, Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo (FARDC) spokesperson for North Kivu said that the army and coalition managed to stop M23 rebels from advancing to capture Sake town in Masisi territory. But later on Thursday night, the M23 rebels’ political spokesperson Lawrence Kanyuka released a statement accusing FARDC soldiers and coalition of targeting densely populated areas with bombs. Kanyuka claimed that the bombs dropped by FARDC soldiers and coalition left 10 civilians dead and an unspecified number of…

March 23 Movement (M23) rebels have claimed they released and handed over more than 5,000 soldiers from the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (FARDC) to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) as part of confidence-building efforts aimed at ending the conflict with the government in Kinshasa. According to the rebel group, the soldiers were captured across various battlefronts in North Kivu and South Kivu provinces. The movement said that after the fall of Goma in January 2025, thousands of captured FARDC soldiers were taken to their camp in Rumangabo. In a statement released on…

I will never forget that day a senior editor at one of Kampala’s leading current affairs outlets said to me “I have no doubts that you, Yusuf, are capable of wearing a bomb and blowing up these offices.” This was a man with whom we had often debated philosophy, politics, literature, democracy, the structure of the English sentence, the enlightenment, among others. He is by all standard a fine gentleman. But on the topic of terrorism, Islam, continued colonialism, the Middle East, he would only regurgitate those tired stereotypes. I asked him why he thought I would blow up their…

The selection of COEGA is the strongest indication that government is committed to moving ahead with its oil refinery project since it cut ties with the Albertine Graben Energy Consortium at the end of June 2023. The South African company will partner with the Uganda National Oil Company, which handles Uganda’s commercial interest in the oil and gas industry. The team from COEGA has already been to the Kabalega Industrial park, and is said to map out a plan on how to prepare the park for the different investments. The park is a nearly nine square kilometre span of land.…

There are seasons in the life of a nation when policy stops being paperwork and becomes production; when ideology leaves conference halls and begins to echo in workshops; when transformation is no longer a promise but a reality fabricated. Uganda is currently in the grip of such a season, a period of profound structural recalibration where the blueprint of our national destiny is being forged in industrial action. As we issue a call for 5,000 young Ugandans to apply for the 5th and 6th intake of the Presidential Industrial Hubs, we are, at this moment, seeing off another 5,000 who…