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Citing the State of Uganda Population Report 2025's estimate that 22.9% of children and 24.2% of adults live with mental health conditions, parenting coach and counsellor Dickson Tumuramye warns that many learners mask serious emotional struggles behind good grades and good behaviour. He traces the pressures driving this: family breakdown, economic hardship, social media, bullying, and harsh school discipline, and calls on schools to train teachers to spot distress, make counselling genuinely accessible, tackle bullying firmly, and invest in mentorship, sports, and the arts as resilience builders. His central argument is that academic success alone is no longer an adequate measure of a school's job well done; student wellbeing has to be part of the scorecard too.

Kampala Lord Mayor Ronald Balimwezo attended Makindye Junior Academy's sports day on Salaama Muyonyo Road as guest of honour, where he urged parents to prioritise their children's education and school fees, and took part in the day's sporting activities himself, winning a medal.

The Ministry of Works and Transport has ordered bus operators to rotate drivers on long-distance routes, in a bid to curb driver fatigue on Uganda's highways. State Minister Fred Byamukama announced the measures after meeting bus operators, Traffic Police and other transport stakeholders on Monday evening, directing that drivers on routes over 300km be replaced for the return leg, while drivers on shorter routes must stop for the day after one round trip.

X is retiring its Creator Revenue Sharing program on September 7, 2026, replacing it with a new Original Content Rewards Program that pays creators based on "qualified impressions" from verified Premium subscribers rather than raw engagement, cutting out reply spam, reposts and clickbait in the process; to qualify, creators need an active Premium subscription, 500 verified followers and 500,000 verified impressions in the past 90 days, with applications opening September 8 and the first payouts under the new system landing September 25, a shift analysts say could favor journalists, photographers and niche experts over accounts built on recycled content.

Uganda's Minister for Science, Technology and Innovation, Eng. Jonard Asiimwe Akiiki, has opened a stakeholder consultation to build the Engineering Design and Innovation Centre (EDiC) into a national engineering centre of excellence, urging the country to "take engineering personally" and warning that Uganda has just two years to find bigger markets for its innovative products.

Uganda Breweries Limited (UBL) is offering five beers for the price of four at bars nationwide to mark World Beer Day, covering brands like Bell Lager, Guinness, Tusker, White Cap and Pilsner. Themed "Tunyuke," the promotion also includes mystery shoppers surprising customers with gifts at select outlets. It coincides with UBL's 80th anniversary in Uganda. The company has not released specific dates or participating locations, and is urging customers to drink responsibly.

In this op-ed, Sheila Catherine Abamu, Legal Manager at KCB Bank Uganda, argues that Uganda's legal framework for protecting widows' land rights is strong on paper but poorly enforced in practice. She notes that while the Constitution, the Land Act and the Succession (Amendment) Act, 2022 all provide legal protections, including criminal penalties for unlawfully evicting a widow from her matrimonial home, most Ugandan land (roughly 80 percent) is held under customary tenure, where patriarchal norms often override statutory law. Abamu highlights the Domestic Violence Act as an underused tool that allows widows facing eviction to seek immediate protection without waiting for lengthy succession disputes to conclude. She calls on bankers, lawyers, land officials and property dealers to take responsibility for enforcing these protections in their daily work.

A two-day Rotary Club of Masindi workshop equips school learners, teachers and Village Health Teams with income-generating skills and menstrual health knowledge, building on the club's recent hospital water project.

Rotary-led WASHFIT training exposes major water, sanitation and hygiene shortfalls at Masindi General Hospital, prompting a new action plan, a monthly cleaning day, and calls for continued support.

Gen. Salim Saleh and NWSC Managing Director Dr. Silver Mugisha say Kampala's worsening waste crisis cannot be solved by simply adding more garbage trucks. Instead, they argue that better land ownership management, stronger institutional coordination, and strategic planning are essential to creating a sustainable waste management system.

EACOP says its technical training programs in Uganda and Tanzania are putting women through the same welding, rigging, and heavy equipment certifications as men, with women making up up to 25% of some cohorts. The company frames it as a lasting shift for the region's workforce. But the data is self-reported, and it sits alongside long-running criticism of the pipeline's environmental and human rights record.