Chimpanzee Capital of the World.
Did you know that Uganda is home to the world's highest concentration of habituated wild chimpanzees?
There is no better place on Earth to experience our closest living relatives in their natural habitat.
This September, combine your holiday with the @ugwildlife Open Park Days (25 to 27 September) and discover why Uganda leads the world in primate tourism.
The forests are waiting.
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*EAST AFRICA GRAND TOUR 2026* ☆
*Are you ready for the adventure of a lifetime?*
Join the *East Africa Grand Tour 2026* – a 30 Days / 29 Nights expedition
Departure: 1st – 30th November 2026
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We're welcoming @UG_Airlines to the Boeing family!
Uganda Airlines will expand its fleet with eight new fuel-efficient airplanes.
✈️ Four 737 MAX
✈️ Four 787 #Dreamliner jets
This order supports growing travel demand across Africa and on routes to the Middle East, Asia and Europe. #FIA2026
Release: https://t.co/YxYbezp9tV
Yesterday,
Gulu University held its 21st graduation ceremony, at the University grounds in Gulu.
The Visitor, HE President Yoweri Museveni, was represented by Rt Hon @Robinah Nabbanja
The Ceremony was attended by academicians, students, parents national and local leaders and many dignitaries including Dr Gitta representing the First Lady & Minister of Education Hon Janet Kataaha Museveni,
Council Chairperson Mrs Obbo and Hon @Norbert Mao.
As Chancellor,
I congratulated the graduates and encouraged them to be innovators and job creators and to work with the people to address Community and national challenges.
#GuluUniversity
#Graduation
Early 1960s.
Ntare School.
In the dining hall, three young men from western Uganda formed a bond that would shape a nation.
Museveni was the orator, Kategaya the conscience, and Amama Mbabazi the architect, the quiet legal mind who would one day build the intelligence and defence structures of a new Uganda.
Amama Mbabazi was born on 16 January 1949 in Kigezi, a sharp‑minded boy who would become the strategist of a revolution.
While his schoolmates debated politics with fire and passion, Mbabazi listened, analysed, and designed.
At Ntare School, the alliance of Museveni, Kategaya, and Mbabazi was more than friendship, it was the first convening of a revolutionary triad.
Museveni envisioned.
Kategaya steadied.
Mbabazi architected.
That division of labour, forged over plates of maize and beans, would hold for decades.
The bond hardened through exile and struggle.
At the University of Dar es Salaam, the crucible of pan‑Africanist thought, and later within the FRONASA network, Mbabazi's legal mind became a weapon of the liberation cause.
While others took up rifles in the Luwero triangle, he served in the External Wing: diplomacy, intelligence, political structuring.
From foreign capitals, he drafted blueprints for governance long before the NRM captured power.
He was not the soldier on the front line, but the planner ensuring the front line had a state to inherit.
When the NRM took Kampala in 1986, the architect was summoned to build.
His first major appointment was not ceremonial; it was operational.
He was named head of the External Security Organisation (ESO), the newborn state's foreign intelligence agency.
In the shadowy world of threat assessment and counter‑espionage, Mbabazi's intellect and exile networks proved invaluable.
He built ESO from the ground up, recruiting agents, establishing protocols, and ensuring a guerrilla government could see its enemies coming.
Soon after, he was appointed Minister of State for Defence.
The strategist who had sustained the rebel army now helped transform it into a national force.
He worked on demobilisation, integration of former adversaries, and the legal frameworks that would turn bush fighters into a professional military.
Mbabazi became the indispensable link between political vision and military execution, the man who translated Museveni's commands into operational reality.
For decades, the three Ntare schoolboys shaped Uganda: Museveni the commander, Kategaya the conscience, Mbabazi the strategist.
Their bond would later fracture into bitter rivalry, but in those early years of building a fragile state, they were the architects of a new order.
Mbabazi's legal mind, his patience, and his instinct for structure gave the Movement its institutional backbone.
He was the designer who ensured the revolution did not end in chaos but in government.
What does it mean to be the architect of a revolution, to build the structures that outlast the bush, the exile, and even the friendships that made them?
Amama Mbabazi's life was a testament to the power of the quiet, analytical mind behind the roar of change.
The dining hall at Ntare had no idea what it had produced.
@AmamaMbabazi@NRMOnline@KagutaMuseveni #ughistory @GovUganda
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The most connected city to Africa and global destinations is opening its doors to Ugandan businesses.
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Africa Business Forum & Expo - 4th Edition
"The Global Franchise & Distributorship Expo"
📅 15th - 18th Sept 2026
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EXHIBIT AFRICA TO THE WORLD!
We are pleased to present you with an exclusive opportunity to exhibit.
This premier event serves as a vital platform for fostering trade and investment between *Turkey and Africa*. It offers a unique chance for ambitious companies to expand their reach and explore new avenues within the dynamic African markets.
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Thanks for serving Africa with adistinction Ndungu Charles. One of the reasons we are having
🇬🇶 @Malabofest March 2027 | Malabo, Equatorial Guinea
Equatorial Guinea is One of Africa’s strongest economies.
A gateway to Central Africa, Europe & Latin America.
Purpose: Showcase African music, film & culture. Drive tourism, trade & investment. Free submission on film freeway: Exhibitors | Sponsors | Delegates [email protected]
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Togo is the star of the World Bank’s 2026 Country Income Classifications update as the ONLY African country to move up a category, shifting into the lower-middle-income bracket alongside 24 other nations. This leaves the remaining African landscape divided into 20 low-income countries, 8 upper-middle-income countries, and Seychelles the SOLE HIGH-INCOME ECONOMY with zero nations dropping ranks.
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It’s been a week long guest Anchoring NBS LIVE at 1 News…proudly I should say, I enjoyed every single episode of the news in that studio. GCEO @KKariisa thank you so very much!
Congratulations @nbstv upon the 18 years of being Live, balanced and Always.