Students at St Kizito Namugongo Secondary School harvest fresh vegetables from their hydroponic garden. The greens are used in daily school meals, supporting healthy diets and practical learning. ©FAO/Helen Lugada In Uganda’s capital of Kampala – a vibrant and rapidly growing city built across rolling hills some 1 200 metres above sea level – students gather each day at St Kizito Namugongo Secondary School to learn. It is also an opportunity for them to eat. For many Ugandan students, at least one daily meal comes from school kitchens. Keeping those meals fresh and nutritious can be costly, especially in dense urban and mountainous areas where arable land to grow food is limited. Joanita Aber is a 19-year-old boarding student at the school, originally from a town nearly seven hours away by car. Living on campus, she and 300 fellow boarders depend entirely on school meals for their nutritional intake. However, the school menu has not always included a wide variety of fresh vegetables. The traditional soil-based garden does not provide enough fresh produce and meals used to be based almost entirely on rice, pulses and a local type of corn meal, called posho. The introduction of an innovative hydroponic garden...

Kaliro District Police have arrested two women in connection with the kidnapping of a 4-year-old child. The suspects have been identified as Namukoba Mariam, a 27-year-old resident of Namukoge village, Namugongo Sub-county, and Babita Irene, a resident of Kiringa, Nawandala Sub-county in Iganga District. The victim, a niece of Namukoba and a pupil at Bright Future School in Namukoge, was reportedly kidnapped on November 29, 2024, by a boda-boda rider named Gasita.

The annual Martyrs Day event is one of the largest religious gatherings in Africa. But this year, with a new pontiff, celebrations took on renewed urgency and global resonance.

By Editorial. The Government of Uganda has allocated over 5 billion shillings to support this year’s Uganda Martyrs Day celebrations at the Catholic, Anglican, and Muslim shrines i

I was sitting on the veranda in the compound in Namugongo Uganda when a little girl called out to me “hello Papa”. It was not long after that I began to do magic tricks, such as making roc...

On June 3rd of each year, Uganda's religious community commemorates the Uganda Martyrs Day Celebration, honouring a group of 22 Catholic and 23 Anglican converts in Christianity  who were executed between January 31, 1885, and January 27, 1887, under the Orders of Kabaka Mwanga The celebration of Uganda Martyrs Day at Namugongo is among the largest religious gatherings in Africa, with estimates of 1 to 4 million attendees in recent years. Pilgrims, many of whom walk hundreds of miles, gather at the Namugongo Catholic and Anglican shrines to pay tribute to the martyrs’ sacrifice.

Le gouvernement ougandais a reporté à une date non précisée les traditionnelles Journées religieuses des Martyrs, célébrées chaque année du 29 mai au 3 juin au sanctuaire de Namugongo, près de Kampala.

Beneath the equatorial sun and a sky streaked with clouds, thousands of pilgrims move slowly toward Namugongo. Their bare feet blistered, lips murmuring prayers and hands clutching rosaries, many walk...

As millions of pilgrims flocked to the famed Ugandan shrine in Namugongo in the days leading to commemoration of the country's 45 Christian martyrs, local authorities prevented an attempted terror attack in what they said was a swift secret service operation, possibly saving hundreds from imminent death.