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There was jubilation in Belgium today as the army court in Kampala sentenced to jail the killers of a Belgian mountain climber, six years ago. Annick Van De Venster, 35, was shot dead at Mt. Elgon National Park. At the time of her death ms Annick Van De Venster, was in Uganda for a […]
Catholics around the world on June 3rd every year mark the Uganda Martyrs Day at Namugongo in remembrance of the 22 Catholic and 23 Anglican pages that were burnt to death because of their faith in Christianity. The Uganda Martyrs were killed in Uganda on the orders of Buganda kingdom’s Kabaka (King) Mwanga II […]
The Africa Travel Association (ATA), established in 1975, is a leading global trade association promoting travel and tourism to Africa is to organize a five day long congress slated to be hosted in Uganda from November 11th to November 16th, 2014. Uganda had failed to effectively market her tourism endowments to the […]
Municipal Council of Entebbe (Uganda) in partnership with the Estonian foreign ministry is drafting plans of setting up a tourism information centre to market Uganda as key tourism destination. The board member of Tallin Development and training Centre in Estonia, Kalle Sepp says Uganda is a beautiful country but Ugandans are keeping its beauty […]
The Uganda Tourism Board has branded late Former president Idi Amin Dada as the country’s greatest tourist attraction product. This follows the Uganda tourism board carrying out a survey and found out that people in the world mostly know Idi Amin. The chief Executive officer Uganda Tourism Board Stephen Asiimwe reavealed this while at a […]
Ugandans, Kenyans and Rwandanese will use IDs as travel documents among Kenya, Uganda and Rwanda as well as use of EAC tourist visas to travel to Rwanda, Kenya ad Uganda. President Kenyata, Museveni and Kagame will launch IDs as travel documents among the three countries as well as use of EAC single tourist visa […]
Medical officials in Uganda have confirmed the outbreak of a measles epidemic in the Republic of Uganda. The measles epidemic has claimed over 150 people in the last three months including children and adults. But the government has been silent for fear of scaring away tourists. The health officials in Uganda, especially in Hoima, […]
The Church of Uganda (Anglican) is set to construct a shrine in Namugongo, Kampala. The Church of Uganda Archbishop, Stanley Ntagali launched a fundraising drive for the construction of the Anglican Martyrs shrine on Tuesday. The development was announced by Ntagali during at a press conference at the Church of Uganda headquarters in Kampala, […]
There is an outbreak of viral hemorrhagic fever in Uganda. But Uganda government refutes to confirm the outbreak for fear of scaring away tourists. Uganda health officials tell journalists to claim that the outbreak is dysentery. The cases of viral hemorrhagic fever are on rise. The people in Western Uganda are already in fear […]
Koboko, the home district of Uganda’s former president, Iddi Amin and former Uganda Vice President, Mustafa Adrisi is now a tourist attraaction. The name Koboko is derived from the Kakwa (tribe of people) name ‘kuwo a’buko which means they were massively killed. The name came after a hill in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo […]