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Uganda News
Would you like to access news/blog content published by sources located in Uganda?
Code example
If you'd like to make a REST call, then make a following POST request:
Endpoint /api/v1/article/getArticles
Request body
{
"sourceLocationUri": "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uganda",
"resultType": "articles",
"apiKey": "API_KEY"
}
If you'd like instead to do a GET request then call:
/api/v1/article/getArticles?sourceLocationUri=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FUganda&resultType=articles&apiKey=API_KEY
Example of JSON response
Below is an example JSON object that you would receive as the result of the request. You can retrieve also additional properties such as concepts, categories, source details, etc. by specifying additional parameters in the request as described on the documentation page.
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"body": "President Yoweri Museveni has issued a forceful response to a recent opinion piece by journalist Andrew Mwenda titled \"When Old Age Strikes a Leader\" (Issue No. 915, April 17-23, 2026), rejecting claims about his leadership capacity and defending his government's economic and industrialisation agenda. Elison Karuhanga (@elisonk), \"a learner and follower\", took to X and supported Museveni's rebuttal and line of thinking. But no sooner had he finished than Anthony Natif (@TonyNatif), \"Campaigner for Good Governance & Inclusive Growth\", started shooting holes in his arguments.\n\nX-ARTICLES | ANTHONY NATIF | I'll start my response to Mr @elisonk 's very well argued piece by declaring my bias: I don't believe that even in 10 lifetimes, Mr Nelson Tugume and Mr Matthias Magoola are Uganda's version of John D. Rockefeller\n\nThese are pretend businessmen with access to powerful political networks that they ride on their way to the soup kitchen of a welfare state.\n\nAt best, they're merely more trusted guarantees of kickbacks for their political pathfinders.\n\nNo amount of state largesse will turn them into winners of a complex game of capitalism that actually respects merit.\n\nThe marketplace doesn't care about political colour, part of the country you're from or any such thing. It respects smarts, strategy and execution.\n\nHaving said that, it's very difficult for me to disagree with the thesis of Mr Karuhanga's piece, to wit: that industries that have dominated global economies for aeons are built on the backs of taxpayer-funded infrastructure, and that actually includes liquidity.\n\nDetroit's car industry wouldn't exist today without President Obama raiding the US treasury and handing them bailouts.\n\nMr Karuhanga rightly points out Silicon Valley as a government-backed mass subsidy that eventually won the capitalist game for the US.\n\nGiven my background, I'll add Pharma.\n\nThe US pharma industry wouldn't be the dominant behemoth that it is without the US government, through NIH grants and all these scholarships they hand out to gifted scientists from all over the world.\n\nI'll not repeat the Samsung example because EK already exhaustively explained it in his piece. Ditto Huawei.\n\nThe Huawei example is instructive because we have current news to illustrate it. President Trump flew with Jensen Huang, the CEO of NVIDIA, on his most recent China trip.\n\nNVIDIA is locked in a chip war with Huawei. Guess who left China empty-handed? Hint: China didn't forget the US working with Canada to arrest and embarrass the CFO of Huawei some years back. They also haven't forgotten the US' systematic purging of Huawei technology from US tech infrastructure.\n\nThat's not diplomacy in the strictest sense. That's governments playing commerce. It's been that way for centuries.\n\nSo, in that regard, Uganda's octogenarian president, who obviously dislikes being called senile, is bang on the money.\n\nA Ugandan can't build a regionally market-dominant company by buying money at 28% per annum. They'd have to sell cocaine to get there.\n\nGovernment has a role in growing such enterprises. I also have a feeling that the masses understand that.\n\nWhat they don't quite understand is the criteria Mr Museveni's government uses to pick winners and losers.\n\nMust we all first personally know an Odrek Rwabwogo or a Rebecca Kadaga before our ideas are found palatable to state bean counters?\n\nThat, right there, is the question that Mr Museveni skirted in his rather ferocious response to Mr Andrew Mwenda.\n\nHaving said that, it would be a disservice to take leave of this topic without pointing out the fact that President Museveni is also a victim of his failed hiring practices.\n\nI'll use this very issue to highlight why: all President Museveni's communications people have merely parroted his words. They've made AI-generated fliers to back them up, got a few retweets and laughs from largely state-affiliated/paid accounts and called it a day.\n\nNone of them has bothered to get into the intellectual ring like Mr Katuhanga has done here.\n\nHis ministers are even worse.\n\nEven if they wanted to, they can't remotely make such arguments.\n\nAnite would rather talk about attempting to choke her husband with a deep-throat kiss or debate online hoodlums about an ambulance she took back from them. This, despite being an investment minister under whose docket this issue falls.\n\nShe understands that she wasn't chosen for her smarts.\n\nShe was chosen to fill a regional representative slot.\n\nPresident @KagutaMuseveni cannot escape blame for the public's failure to understand him. He chose fishermen for ministers.",
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"body": "________________\n\nHundreds of members of the Indian community from across East Africa gathered at the BAPS Swaminarayan Mandir in Kampala on Sunday, May 24, 2026, for a special prayer ceremony dedicated to world peace, unity and harmony amid growing global conflicts and social tensions.\n\nThe event, organised by BAPS Charities Uganda, brought together religious leaders, political leaders, cultural representatives and members of different faiths for the Vishwashanti Satsang Diksha Homatmak Yagna, a sacred Hindu prayer ceremony aimed at promoting peace and universal well-being.\n\nSpeaking during the prayers, Ajay Kailash Singh, the country coordinator of BAPS Charities Uganda, described the yajna as a historic occasion for both the organisation and the East African region.\n\n\"We have gathered here to perform this Yagna. This ceremony is taking place in the history of the BAPS charity in the whole East African community. This is the first time we are having this yagna to perform, to prevail, to have peace in the world,\" Singh said.\n\nHe explained that the event, also referred to as World Peace Prayer Day, focused on prayers for peace at all levels of society, from families to nations.\n\n\"This is known as the World Peace Prayer Day. The young children, as you can see, are performing the prayers to have peace in the world, in our nation, in the society, in our family and in our individual life,\" he said.\n\nThe colourful ceremony featured traditional Hindu rituals, prayers and offerings led by children and spiritual leaders, while worshippers chanted hymns calling for peace and harmony across the world.\n\nSingh noted that although the ceremony was being held in East Africa for the first time, similar prayers were taking place simultaneously at BAPS centres around the globe.\n\n\"Some places have been done, some other places it is going to take place. So it is going to happen in the entire world, where the BAPS charities and BAPS centres are there,\" he said.\n\nThe event was attended by senior government officials, including the director of health services, Dr Charles Olaro, Kampala Central mayor Salim Uhuru and Maj. Gen. Apollo Kasiita Gowa, among others.\n\nThe charity also announced a tree-planting initiative aimed at addressing environmental-related challenges.\n\nSingh said the prayers were particularly important at a time when the world was experiencing wars, political instability and violent conflicts in different regions.\n\nHe emphasised that prayer and dialogue were essential tools in resolving conflicts and building peaceful societies.\n\n\"Fighting is not the solution. But when we have a dialogue, by sitting together, by praying to Almighty God, and get together to have a dialogue, then the solutions come,\" Singh added.\n\nThe coordinator of the BAPS community in Uganda, Naresh Patel, explained that the Vishwashanti Satsang Diksha Homatmak Yagna is rooted in ancient Hindu traditions and spiritual teachings.\n\nHe said the ceremony is organised by BAPS Swaminarayan Sanstha and its affiliates worldwide, including BAPS Charities Uganda, with blessings from Mahant Swami Maharaj.\n\n\"The term 'Vishwashanti' means 'world peace,' while 'Yagna' refers to a traditional Vedic fire ritual in which prayers and offerings are made to seek divine blessings. 'Satsang Diksha' is linked to the spiritual teachings and values upheld within the BAPS Swaminarayan tradition,\" Patel explained.\n\nHe said the ceremony brings together people from different communities, cultures and religions to pray for peace, unity and spiritual growth.\n\nPatel added that the ceremony reflects teachings rooted in Sanatan Dharma, the ancient Hindu spiritual tradition in which yajnas have historically been performed to seek peace, prosperity and divine blessings for society.\n\nKampala Central mayor Salim Uhuru praised the Indian community for organising the event and promoting peace and environmental conservation.\n\n\"I want to thank the Indian community for coming out on this special day, World Peace Day. You very well know if the world is not peaceful, nothing can happen, nothing can prosper,\" Uhuru said.\n\nHe commended the Indian community for consistently participating in charitable and development initiatives in Uganda.\n\n\"They have been coming out always, helping out the community. This time they have come to celebrate World Peace Day. And as the mayor of Kampala Central, I had to join them to make sure all of us need peace as Ugandans,\" he said.\n\nUhuru also applauded participants for taking part in tree-planting activities organised alongside the prayers, saying environmental protection was critical for human survival.\n\n\"They were able to have a productive time planting trees. You know, without trees we cannot survive also. Because oxygen, the purification is all done by nature,\" he said.\n\nThe mayor also acknowledged the Indian community's contribution to Uganda's economy through investment, trade and tax revenue.\n\n\"Business-wise, you know, they are number one in the world. Not even in Uganda, but in the world, the Indian community is number one,\" he said.\n\nOlaro commended the community for praying for peace while also urging members of the public to remain vigilant against Ebola.\n\n\"I implore you to adhere to the precautions against Ebola so that you remain healthy. Good health is part of the peace we are praying for today,\" Olaro said.",
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"body": "President Yoweri Museveni has issued a forceful response to a recent opinion piece by journalist Andrew Mwenda titled \"When Old Age Strikes a Leader\" (Issue No. 915, April 17-23, 2026), rejecting claims about his leadership capacity and defending his government's economic and industrialisation agenda. In the unusually direct statement, Museveni pushes back against criticism of his age and governance record, while accusing sections of the commentariat of undermining Uganda's development efforts and promoting what he describes as \"neo-colonial\" economic thinking. Elison Karuhanga (@elisonk), \"a learner and follower\", took to X and supported Museveni's line of thinking.\n\nX-ARTICLES | ELISON KARUHANGA | Most African intellectual debates about development suffer from the same flaw: they judge history like auditors instead of nation builders.\n\nThat is the deeper meaning of President Museveni's clash with Andrew Mwenda.\n\nMwenda looks at Uganda's industrial push and sees politically connected businessmen, inflated contracts, weak guardrails and the possibility of waste. President Museveni is asking a different question altogether: how exactly does a poor country industrialise?\n\nHistory's answer is uncomfortable. No country has industrialised through procedural purity alone.\n\nBritain did not conduct the Industrial Revolution through tidy procurement manuals and endless elite caution. It used imperial power, protected industries, politically connected financiers and aggressive state-backed expansion. The railways that transformed Britain were built amid speculation, bubbles and scandal. Yet they transformed the economy.\n\nAmerica did not become an industrial giant through pure free markets either. Washington handed vast tracts of land to railroad barons, protected American manufacturers with tariffs and poured military money into technology and infrastructure. Silicon Valley itself owes part of its existence to Pentagon spending.\n\nSouth Korea is perhaps the clearest example. In the 1960s it was poorer than many African countries. The state picked industrial champions like Samsung and Hyundai, protected them, financed them, tolerated mistakes and forced them to grow. Critics complained about cronyism and state distortion. Today Samsung alone is larger than the GDP of several African countries combined.\n\nThat is President Museveni's point.\n\nIndustrialisation is not born from perfection. It is born from strategic stubbornness.\n\nAnd this is why the sectors President Museveni highlights are deliberate. Dairy. Coffee. Gold refining. Palm oil. Manufacturing. These are sectors where he intervened aggressively and where Uganda's intelligentsia repeatedly warned he was reckless, irrational or senile.\n\nWhen President Museveni pushed commercial dairy production in the cattle corridor, some elite opinion scoffed. When he practically gave away the dairy corporation for one dollar to revive the industry, intellectual Kampala declared it madness. Today Uganda produces over five billion litres of milk annually and exports dairy products across the region.\n\nWhen President Museveni used state mobilisation structures, including the army, to distribute coffee seedlings, the intelligentsia sneered at what it considered primitive state activism. Yet coffee exports exploded from roughly three million bags to nearly nine million bags, generating billions in export earnings and transforming rural incomes.\n\nWhen President Museveni offered tax concessions to gold refiners and banned the export of unprocessed minerals, critics saw giveaways and smuggling risks. Yet Uganda now hosts multiple refineries, exports billions of dollars in refined gold and, perhaps most importantly, has stimulated a major expansion in gold exploration itself as investors increasingly see Uganda not merely as a transit point for minerals but as a jurisdiction capable of supporting an entire refining and value-addition ecosystem.\n\nWhen industrial parks, tax holidays and investor incentives were rolled out to manufacturers, some elite complained about crony capitalism, market distortion and politically connected industrialisation. Yet thousands of factories now stand across Uganda, from Namanve to Mbale to Mbarara.\n\nAnd then there was Bujagali.\n\nAt the time, sections of Uganda's intellectual class, including Andrew Mwenda himself, became intensely critical of the AES-Bujagali arrangement. The financing structures, contractual terms and political economy of the deal came under ferocious attack. Some concerns were legitimate. But over time even Mwenda himself came to reflect more soberly on the developmental consequences of derailing major infrastructure projects in a capital-starved country.\n\nThat experience sits at the heart of President Museveni's response today.\n\nThe President is effectively saying: you made this mistake before.\n\nHis frustration is therefore not merely political. It is historical. He believes Uganda's educated class repeatedly becomes so consumed by the defects within transformational projects that it loses sight of the transformation itself. It sees inflated contracts but misses electrification. It sees politically connected industrialists but misses industrial capacity. It sees tax concessions but misses manufacturing growth. It sees imperfect investors but misses structural change.\n\nThat is why this line matters so much:\n\n\"Mr Mwenda, thank you for declaring me senile and incapable of judging right.\"\n\nIt is not simply irritation. It is historical memory.\n\nBecause President Museveni has heard this before. He heard it over dairy. Over coffee. Over gold refining. Over Bujagali. Over Kiira Motors. Over industrial parks. And each time some of Uganda's elite warned that he was reckless, irrational or trapped in outdated thinking.\n\nYet President Museveni kept building anyway.\n\nHistory suggests that countries rarely industrialise through caution alone. They industrialise because somebody decides to build anyway, despite the sceptics, despite the mockery and despite the risk of failure.\n\nAnd perhaps that is why President Museveni still unsettles his critics after all these years. Because he still speaks and acts like a man convinced that nations are not transformed by cynics observing history from a safe distance, but by stubborn men willing to seize it, shape it and drag it forward.\n\nYou may disagree with him. Many do. But one cannot help but admire that old guerrilla who still walks through history armed with the same three instruments that shaped his political life: the Bible, whose scriptures promise rebirth and salvation; the gun, which Frantz Fanon saw as the instrument through which the colonised reclaimed dignity and agency; and the pen, not merely because it is mightier than the sword, but because it is the instrument of expression itself, the proof of lucidity, the record of original thought, the power of the pen itself and the vessel through which ancient wisdom is carried across generations.\n\nAnd perhaps that is the final lesson of President Museveni's stubbornness. Nations are not transformed by clever spectators standing safely outside history. They are transformed by stubborn men who believe deeply enough to fight for an idea.\n\nAnd what, after all, do such men need?\n\nA Bible, a gun and a pen.",
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He praised the support extended to musicians through the Uganda National Musicians Federation led by Eddy Kenzo, noting that government had provided sh10 billion to support musicians.\n\nAccording to Museveni, similar funding models could be extended to boda boda riders and other service providers through organised associations and zonal structures.\n\nThe President further described ICT as an important sector for educated youth, saying innovation hubs across the country are already helping young people develop applications and other technologies that create jobs.\n\nThe President challenged leaders to move beyond ceremonial titles and instead solve the practical problems affecting citizens.\n\n\"Do not just come here and have titles -- Honourable, Right Honourable, Excellency -- and solve no problems of society,\" he said.\n\nHe advised Ugandans to start with small investments instead of pursuing expensive projects that often lead to debt. 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