EAC’s Regional Maritime Rescue Centre in Mwanza deemed critical to safety on Lake Victoria
The centre will also serve as the main coordination hub linking sub-centres in Kisumu (Kenya) and Entebbe (Uganda), ensuring rescue operations are seamless across borders.
Kenya’s Safarlink launches flights from Kisumu to Entebbe in Uganda to meet rising demand in EAC
Governor Ntong’o noted that the new flight comes at a very opportune moment when the Lake Victoria Basin Commission (LVBC) recently inaugurated its head office just a stone’s throw from the Airport, thus confirming Kisumu City as a business hub in the East Africa.
Making of a Swahili Nation: How bloody repression in Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya gave birth to quest for new dispensation
Tanzania is the result of the 1964 merger of two former states – Tanganyika, the mainland territory, and Zanzibar, the coastal archipelago. The merger followed Tanganyika’s independence from Britain in 1961 and the Zanzibar Revolution in January 1964 that led to a new government that sought unification with Tanganyika.
Understanding courage and dissipating fear, according to Ugandan scholar Oweyegha-Afunaduula
On July 27, 2025, I turned 76. Let me reflect on some episodes of courage that contributed to dispelling fear out of me and replacing it with courage. I have already told you how my incursions in the forests helped to make the courageous me instead of the fearful me.
Uganda to attend Kenya’s coast tourism parley in Malindi as East African nations explore how to jointly market products
Statistics shared during the media launch show that 466,000 Kenyans visited Uganda, making Kenya its largest source market, while 225,559 Ugandans travelled to Kenya, placing Uganda second only to the United States in tourist arrivals.
Rights activists press for trade retaliation against Tanzania as Kenyan minister warns of imminent reciprocal measures
Already, Kenya’s Cabinet Secretary for Trade Lee Kinyanjui has warned Tanzania that retaliatory measures are an option on the table unless Dar s Salaam rescinds the decision that he described as contradictory to East African Community (EAC) treaty.
Uganda hurtling to new monarchised military: From Obote ‘Original Sin’ to soldier-king in the making
This was the political status quo on October 9, 1963, when CWRU was renamed Uganda, and its governance placed in the hands of an Executive Prime Minister Apollo Milton Obote, and a ceremonial president, Sir Edward Muteesa II, and ceremonial vice-president, Sir William Wilberforce Kadhumbula Gabula Nadiope II.
