Mukono Municipality has received Shs 4.5 billion from the Government of Uganda, a development officials say will transform waste management, sanitation, and infrastructure in the fast-growing township.

The funds—part of the support extended after Mukono helped Kampala address its garbage crisis—will be used to purchase over 30 acres of land at Katikoro to expand the municipality’s dumping and composting site.

Slow Food Uganda has launched an ambitious two-year project titled “From Farms to Markets: Scaling Agro ecology in East and Southern Africa.” Supported by the Agro ecology Fund (AEF), the project aims to strengthen the participation of agro ecological farmers in local markets while building a global collective of farms producing good, clean, and fair food.

Construction of the much-anticipated Ntenjeru–Bule Road has stalled barely a month after its official launch, following a cultural dispute over a sacred tree in Mpata Village, Mukono District.

On the 2nd of last month, the Minister for Kampala and Metropolitan Affairs, Hajjat Minsa Kabanda, flagged off the works for the 18-month project, which forms part of the 18.5-kilometre Ntenjeru–Bule stretch under the Greater Kampala Metropolitan Area Urban Development Program, funded by the World Bank.

A group of women in Wamala, Nansana, Wakiso District, have publicly protested, accusing the President's representative, the Gombolola (GA) President, of neglecting them and failing to improve their living standards.