Uganda concluded a successful round of high-level bilateral air services negotiations at the 17th ICAO Air Services Negotiation (ICAN2025) event held in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. The annual ICAN platform brings together States from around the world to review and negotiate air transport agreements aimed at expanding global connectivity and strengthening cooperation in the aviation…
Uganda Civil Aviation Authority (UCAA), in partnership with the Civil Aviation Safety and Security Oversight Agency (CASSOA), officially opened the Regional Workshop on Flight Crew and Flight Dispatch Skill Test Standards at Protea Skyz Hotel, Naguru. The workshop, running from November 17 to 21, 2025, brings together aviation regulators, training experts, and safety professionals from…
Uganda Civil Aviation Authority convened the 52nd Board Air Services Licensing committee meeting, a public hearing, to consider new applicants for Air Service Licenses at Four Points by Sheraton Hotel in Kampala on Friday, November 7, 2025. During the engagement, three applications by Flight Training Center, Aerojet Aviation Ltd and Kampala Executive Aviation were heard….
Uganda has been chosen to host the International Federation of Air Traffic Controllers’ Associations (IFATCA) Global Conference in 2027, a major event expected to attract around 600 delegates from 132 countries. The announcement was made on behalf of the Minister of Works and Transport, Gen. Edward Katumba Wamala, by Ms. Olive Birungi Lumonya, Deputy Director…
The Ministry of Works and Transport in conjunction with Uganda Civil Aviation Authority held the National Air Transport Facilitation Committee meeting on October 29, 2025 at Entebbe International Airport. Other participants in the meeting included officials from Airlines, Ground Handling companies, Directorate of Citizenship and Immigration Control, Uganda Revenue Authority, Security Agencies, Ministries of Tourism,…
President Yoweri Museveni has delivered on his 2021 promise of giving Ugx 100m per parish per year under the Parish Development Program, PDM. At the start of PDM 39% lived in subsistence life, 24.2% of these were purely in agriculture while 14.8% were nowhere. PDM has so far reached 3.3m beneficiaries amounting to 3.3 trillion…
Musevenomics Complicating Presidential Race for Opposition On September 10,2024 i published here my views on Musevenomics and the 2026 elections warning that it would headline the 2026 general elections. My readers replied with mixed feelings first, it did not seem serious given that few people read, many in NRM and opposition alike have not paid…
The Director General of the Uganda Civil Aviation Authority (UCAA), Mr. Fred K. Bamwesigye, this morning, opened the 20th NAFISAT Supervisory Board Meeting, taking place from 14th to 17th October 2025 at Speke Resort Munyonyo in Kampala. The meeting, organized by UCAA in collaboration with Air Traffic Navigation Services (ATNS) and the International Civil Aviation…
The Buganda Road Chief Magistrate’s Court has remanded three individuals — a 24-year-old man and two minors — accused of posing as prominent businessman and philanthropist Dr. Hamis Kiggundu to defraud the public on social media. The suspects, identified as Master Don Sharif (24) and two juveniles aged 16 and 17, appeared before Magistrate Ronald…
Prime Minister Robinah Nabbanja has dismissed reports claiming she ordered the arrest of Galaxy TV journalist David Mwesigye, calling them false and misleading. Her communications officer, Francis Jjingo, clarified that the Prime Minister never directed the police to detain Mwesigye. Instead, she asked the journalist to apologize for allegedly providing incorrect information to President Museveni…
