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Uganda travel & tourism news for travelers and travel professionals. Latest travel and tourism news on Uganda. Latest news on safety, hotels, resorts, attractions, tours and transportation in Uganda. Kampala Travel information. Uganda is a landlocked country in East Africa whose diverse landscape encompasses the snow-capped Rwenzori Mountains and immense Lake Victoria. Its abundant wildlife includes chimpanzees as well as rare birds. Remote Bwindi Impenetrable National Park is a renowned mountain gorilla sanctuary. Murchison Falls National Park in the northwest is known for its 43m-tall waterfall and wildlife such as hippos.
The Standards, Utilities and Wildlife court yesterday sentenced a Congolese national identified as Mbaya Kabongo Bob to 7 years in...
Uganda has been crowned this year’s Grand Prix and two-times Gold awardwinner by the International Tourism Film Festival Africa for...
Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA) has today, April 29, 2022, handed over UGX2,930,000,000 (approximately US$825,000) of revenue sharing funds to the...
On April 27, 2022, the Minister of Health, Honorable Jane Ruth Achieng, updatedthe public in a televised statement on the...
On April 26, 2022, three lionesses – one adult and two sub-adults – were electrocuted around Kigabu Village in Katunguru,...
RwandAir flight WB464 skid off the runway due to bad weather at Entebbe International Airport in Uganda. The incident occurred...
A Colombian researcher identified as Sebastian Ramirez Amaya working for Arizona State University in the USA was killed on Sunday,...
Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA) team at Kibale National Park received information from the District Police Commander ( DPC)of Kagadi in western...
The Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA) has today signed concession agreements with Wildplaces Africa and Tian Tang Group to develop high-end...
The Association of Uganda Tour Operators (AUTO) participated at the regional technical committee engagement for The Great Virunga Transboundary Collaboration...
On March 24, 2022, a new tourism association was launched at Latitude 0° hotel Makindye Kampala, Uganda, premised on the...
On March 30, 2022, Uganda Tourism Board (UTB), the government of Uganda’s destination marketing arm launched its new destination brand...
As we try to pull away from the Covid-19 pandemic, Uganda is rebranding itself as a tourism destination that is...
The officials at Entebbe International Airport, the only international airport in Uganda, announced that the airport’s newly constructed air cargo...
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) released 2021 safety performance data for the commercial airline industry showing strong improvement in...
U.S. Ambassador to Uganda Natalie E. Brown, Uganda’s Minister of Tourism, Wildlife, and Antiquities, the Hon. TomButime, local authorities, and...
Uganda has suspended mandatory COVID-19 testing on arrival at entry ports, in line with East African Community (EAC) member states. Individuals transiting through Entebbe International Airport and all ports of entry in line with the position taken by the EAC are no longer required to be tested.
The package includes 1,000 medical oxygen cylinders (J-type with a capacity of 6,800L), 1000 oxygen cylinder regulators and humidifier bottles. Together, these 1000 cylinders when filled with oxygen and the associated accessories constitute equipment adequate to administer oxygen for up to 1000 COVID-19 patients requiring oxygen at any time.
The Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA) has officially launched an application dubbed “My Gorilla Family.” The app is a pioneer initiative to protect Uganda’s mountain gorilla population, leveraging technology to create sustainable sources of non-trekking revenues to fund conservation.
Uganda Bikers are joining the 2022 Africa UBUNTU Bikers Run this Sunday, January 30, 2022. The bikers from Uganda will join the rest of Africa’s bikers in a solidarity breakfast ride dubbed “2022 Africa UBUNTU Bikers Run - Riding in Unity.”
Uganda's famed street food known as Rolex made it into the Guinness Book of World Records this week when a young Ugandan YouTuber known as Raymond Kahuma assembled a team of chefs to create the world’s largest Rolex.
The government of Rwanda has announced the reopening of the Gatuna/Katuna border after nearly three years of closure. On February 28, 2019, Rwanda closed its border with Uganda at Gatuna. Katuna is a town in Kabale District of Uganda at the border with Rwanda. In Kinyarwanda language the town is called Gatuna. Katuna is located on the Ugandan border with Rwanda, in extreme southwestern Uganda. The town is located in Kamuganguzi Sub-county, Ndorwa County, in Kabale District. This location is approximately 28 kilometres (17 mi), by road, south of Kabale, the largest city in the sub-region.
The park authorities appealed to the public, especially those transiting through protected areas to take precaution and avoid putting themselves in harm’s way.
Uganda President Yoweri Museveni has made good on his new year speech in which he issued a directive to fully reopen the economy 2 weeks after schools reopened on January 10, 2022.
The Uganda President Yoweri Museveni has launched Destination Uganda brand ‘Explore Uganda’ as his government seeks to sustainably promote the Pearl of Africa as a competitive tourism destination for inclusive development.
The Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA) has registered a breakthrough in the investigation and arrest of poachers suspected to have killed 2 chimpanzees in Bugoma Forest and Kabwoya Wildlife Reserve with the arrest of the suspected ring leader Yafesi Baguma, aged 36 years.
Chief Magistrate His Worship Okumu Jude Muwone in a Kampala court on December 9, 2021, sentenced Mubiru Erikana, wildlife poacher, to 14 years in prison for being in possession of a protected wildlife specimen upon his plea of guilty.
Following a bizarre incident onboard Uganda Airlines flight UR 446 bound for Dubai on Friday, November 26, 2021, where one passenger was caught on camera hawking grasshoppers in polythene bags, the airline has been forced to make a statement on the incident.
The Board of Directors of the Uganda Private Sector Foundation announces the appointment of Mr. Stephen Asiimwe, as its new Executive Director.
He replaces the late Mr. Gideon Badagawa who passed away in June this year.
Veteran birder Herbert Byaruhanga was elected president of the Uganda Tourism Association (UTA) on November 20 for the years 2022/23 at the Annual General Meeting held at Hotel Africana in Kampala.
The UK Foreign office on November 9 warned British Citizens of possible terror attacks in Uganda.
This turned into a grim reality this morning. The situation is currently emerging, and data is still conflicting.
As the UN Climate Change Conference on limiting carbon emissions to 1.5 degrees, known as COP26, took place in Glasgow from November 1-12, 2021, unbeknownst to world leaders present, a little known township outside the Greater Masaka City, located 130 kilometers southwest of Uganda’s capital, Kampala, a community of Ugandans have been making a living from harvesting grasshoppers as long as the Buganda kingdom has existed since the 13th century, including where the grasshopper clan locally known as “nsenene” is one of the 52 clans in Buganda.
Following pressure from travelers and social media bashing, the Uganda Ministry of Health has been forced to swallow some humble pie and bow to pressure from tour operators and the traveling public and allow arriving passengers to proceed to their destinations after mandatory COVID-19 PCR testing on arrival.
Following the launch of the COVID-19 testing laboratory at Entebbe International Airport by President Y.K. Museveni on October 22, 2021, the Government of the Republic of Uganda has issued directives effective October 27, 2021, until further notice on COVID-19 health measures at Entebbe International Airport.
The Uganda Tourism Association (UTA) and Private Sector Foundation Uganda (PSFU) organized a CEOs breakfast and exhibition on Friday, October 22, 2021, at Kampala Sheraton Hotel.
The bus explosion happened just two days after a deadly bombing that killed one person and injured three at a roadside eatery in the capital Kampala on Saturday, which police called an “act of domestic terror”.
The President of Uganda, H.E. Yoweri Kaguta T. Museveni, officially launched the COVID-19 laboratories on Friday, October 22, 2021 at a function held at the new terminal extension. The lab is to be used for mandatory COVID-19 testing of all incoming passengers both vaccinated and unvaccinated through Entebbe International Airport.
In Uganda, the Chimpanzee Sanctuary and Wildlife Conservation Trust, the National Association of Professional Environmentalists (NAPE), ECOTRUST, Uganda Tourism Association, Association of Uganda Tour Operators (AUTO) Association for the Conservation of Bugoma Forest and Tree Talk Plus are fighting for the Bugoma Forest to be saved.
Bird watching is of one the fastest growing tourism niche businesses across the globe, emerging as a sub-sector of the nature-based tourism industry where tourist travel motivations are focused on visiting places to see birds.
Uganda Airlines launched its inaugural flight to Dubai on Monday, October 4, 2021, from Entebbe International Airport. The launch of the Entebbe/Dubai route comes just in time for the start of the Dubai Expo 2020 that runs for 6 months from October 5, 2021, to March 31, 2022, where Uganda was offered a 213-square-meter 2-floor Pavilion in the Opportunity Thematic District.
Indeed, to Allah we belong and to Allah we shall return was the message when Uganda's President General Yoweri T. K. Museveni recognized the incredible contribution Dr. Bulaimu Muwanga Kibirige, also known as BMK. He built a fortune for Africa and the travel and tourism industry. BMK passed away in a Nairobi hospital leaving his wives and 18 children.
The Uganda Tourism Board (UTB) has made overtures with the energy sector in a bid to diversify Destination Uganda’s tourism products beyond the dominant wildlife-based tourism through the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Uganda Electricity Generation Company Limited (UEGCL) to market the 600MW Karuma Hydro Power Dam and the 183MW Isimba Hydro Power Dams as infrastructure tourism products.
The Government of Uganda has this morning, August 25, 2021, received 51 evacuees of 2,000 expected refugees from Afghanistan who arrived aboard a privately-chartered flight at the Entebbe International Airport.
