Two seamers. Two five-wicket hauls. One ball. The debate over who deserved cricket’s most coveted souvenir at Headingley had a punchline nobody saw coming. Josh Tongue and Ollie Robinson simply cut the thing in half.
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A UGX 17 billion construction push in Hoima District is turning a sporting dream into poured concrete. The Sir Tito Winyi Sports Academy is officially underway, and Uganda’s co-hosting ambitions for AFCON 2027 now have a very tangible deadline attached.
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A convicted criminal borrowed a name, and an artist paid the price. Ugandan singer Yung Mulo is now fighting back after reckless reporting turned his stage name into a headline nobody wants. The legal threats are coming, and the music industry is watching.
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A courtroom in Kampala got a crash course in covert tradecraft this week. A prosecution witness in the treason trial of veteran Ugandan opposition figure Kizza Besigye admitted he posed as a wealthy foreign financier, dangled $5 million and promised hand grenades to gain access to Besigye’s inner circle. None of the money or weapons were real. The secret recordings, however, were.
john-kA father, a mother, and their teenage daughter lost their lives in the water off Shoreham-by-Sea. Police have now named the victims, and a young girl who was with them fights for her life in hospital.
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The taxman has been watching your crypto portfolio far more closely than you might think. With warning letters nearly tripling in just two years and sweeping new powers on the horizon, Britain’s cryptocurrency investors are facing a moment of reckoning that many never saw coming.
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Nick Kyrgios once predicted he would never play tennis into his 30s. At 31, battling injuries and a failed drug test, that prophecy may be coming true in the worst way possible. The question now is whether his career survives what comes next.
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With East Africa’s biggest football moment approaching fast, Uganda is pulling out all the stops. The Uganda People’s Defence Forces have taken charge of upgrading the FUFA Kadiba Stadium, backed by a 5.1 billion shilling government investment ahead of the 2027 Africa Cup of Nations.
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A young man from Entebbe with a voice that started in church and a name that’s now all over Ugandan playlists. Sqoop Larma is not asking for your attention, he’s simply earning it, one song at a time.
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Uganda’s business registration body is under new interim leadership after President Museveni’s anti-corruption drive swept five of its top officials off their seats. Deputy Registrar General Mustapher Ntale is now running the show at URSB, and the investigations are only getting sharper. Here is everything you need to know about Uganda’s most consequential institutional shake-up of the year.
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