MultiChoice today announced its media broadcast partnership with The Earthshot Prize to help accelerate and spotlight the ingenuity and ambition of innovators, activists and scientists across Africa who are working to address the climate crisis on the African continent and around the world.

NEW YORK, 15 September 2022 – 25-year-old Ugandan climate activist Vanessa Nakate has been appointed as the newest UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, affirming her collaboration with the organisation and recognising her outstanding global advocacy for climate justice for current and future generations.

Chasing birds away each morning when they came to eat the grains on the ears of the ripe sorghum has been a typical role for any young boy in Kabale, a district in Western Uganda. Such is one memory of the Rev. Prof. Manuel Muranga, a Kabale-born lecturer at the Institute of Language Studies, Kabale University. 

Kololo Senior School has won $3,000 (about Shs11m) in the National Innovation Challenge to represent Uganda and East Africa at World Company Challenge in Nigeria next month after defeating more than 10 schools. 

Humanity is waging war on nature. Nature always strikes back – and it is already doing so with growing force and anger.

KAMPALA: Uganda’s cabinet minister for Water and Environment, Sam Cheptoris has rallied Ugandans to shift from production means that harm the environment to those that contribute to healing it.

The Aga Khan University Centre in Nairobi has achieved EDGE Advanced certification for its multiple sustainability features. The certification was made possible through verification by independent EDGE auditors, Sintali.

According to the National Risk and Vulnerability Atlas of Uganda published in 2019 by the Office of the Prime Minister (OPM), Serere District in eastern Uganda is prone to frequent natural hazards and man-made disasters that destroy crops, property and threaten lives.