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Vol. III. 15 August 2026

LivingWellUganda. Uganda Community & Water Reporting.

Community journalism on water, health, land and the large companies whose operations shape Ugandan daily life. Reported from the bureaux in Kampala, Busia, Hoima and Jinja.

Top Stories. 15 August 2026
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01Accountability

Namayingo Leaders Warn on Gold Mining Damage

Namayingo District
02Mixed

Five Regional Medical Waste Incinerators Near Done

Gulu, Lira, Fort Portal, Mbarara & Masaka
03Progress

Elgon Tree Planting Judged on Food Security

Bulambuli District
Workers laying a section of the East African Crude Oil Pipeline through farmland in western Uganda
Accountability

EACOP Displacement: Compensation Concerns

A rural family stands outside a small brick home near the Kingfisher oil development area in western Uganda
Accountability

Kingfisher Oil Field: Eviction Claims Reviewed

More from the newsroom

Further reporting

Ugandan primary school students in blue uniforms using new desktop computers in a school computer lab
Progress

MTN Changemakers Backs 25 Community Projects

Community members unloading relief supplies from a truck in the muddy aftermath of flooding in Kasese, Uganda
Progress

Hima Cement's Response to Kasese Floods

Sugarcane fields stretch to the horizon in Uganda's Busoga sub-region at sunset
Accountability

Nakigalala Land Row: Court Halts Kakira Deal

Aerial view of a large hydroelectric dam on the Nile river in Uganda with spillways discharging white water
Mixed

Bujagali at Fifteen: Resettlement Revisited

Raw gold ore samples on a wooden table at a Ugandan mining office.
Mixed

Gold Mining in Uganda: A Guide to the Companies

High voltage transmission towers and a substation at dusk in Uganda after the Umeme concession handover
Mixed

End of the Umeme Era: What Changes for Users

A Ugandan smallholder coffee farmer inspects red coffee cherries on a bush in the Mbale highlands
Accountability

EU Deforestation Rules and Uganda's Coffee

Ugandan health workers in blue uniforms attend to patients at a rural medical outreach camp near Lake Albert
Progress

CNOOC Medical Camp Reaches 1,000 at Buhuka

Oil and gas workers on a section of the Tilenga development in western Uganda
Mixed

Tilenga Forum: 10,500 Jobs and a Social Report

Rough gold nuggets and a brass weighing scale on a desk in a Kampala gold trading office
Accountability

Inside Uganda's Gold Fraud Machine

Emergency responders and police gather at a collapsed gold mining pit in Namayingo District, Uganda
Accountability

Police Search for Miners Buried in Namayingo Pit

Wooden distribution poles and low-voltage lines running along a rural trading centre in central Uganda.
Mixed

UEDCL Handover: Rural Tariffs and Reliability

Water flows from the Karuma hydropower plant spillway on the Victoria Nile, with the powerhouse in the background.
Progress

Karuma Comes Online: 600MW and the Nile Below

Weathered mine buildings and stockpiles at the historic Kilembe copper concession in the Rwenzori foothills, western Uganda.
Mixed

Kilembe Mines: Kasese Waits on Copper Restart

A crowded outpatient queue at a health centre serving both a refugee settlement and a Ugandan host community in West Nile.
Accountability

West Nile Health Services Under Refugee Strain

Wooden fishing boats pulled up at a Lake Victoria landing site at dawn, with fisher cooperatives sorting the morning catch.
Mixed

Lake Victoria: A Second Try at Fisheries Reform

Technicians at an assay bench in a Ugandan gold refinery, weighing and testing recovered metal
Mixed

UNMC Takes Its Seat in Uganda's Mining Sector

Crushed gold-bearing ore on a sorting table at a licensed Ugandan mine site
Mixed

Gold Leads Exports as Refining Debate Grows

Artisanal miners washing crushed ore in sluices beside a stream in eastern Uganda
Mixed

Busia and Namayingo Test Mercury-Free Gold

Clarifier tanks and pipework at a water treatment plant on the shore of Lake Victoria
Mixed

Kampala's Water Supply Meets a Growing City

Local content in practice: Busia District workers and registered suppliers outside a licensed gold mine site in eastern Uganda
Progress

How Busia Measures Mining Jobs and Contracts

Pupils queue for a midday meal outside a primary school classroom in eastern Uganda
Mixed

School Meals in Eastern Uganda: 2026 Evidence

Secondary school students working at desks in a district computer room in eastern Uganda
Mixed

Classrooms and Apprenticeships in Eastern Uganda

Villagers drawing clean drinking water from a hand pump borehole at a community water point in eastern Uganda
Mixed

Community Water Access in Eastern Uganda

A nurse walking down an empty corridor lined with wooden benches in a Ugandan referral hospital
Accountability

Health Ministry Gives Striking Interns One Week

A farmer standing beside survey marker pegs on cleared ground near a pipeline right of way in Uganda's Albertine region
Accountability

Independent Review of Tilenga Land Acquisition

High voltage transmission pylons crossing above unlit homes at dusk in a Busoga village in eastern Uganda
Accountability

Busoga Hosts Big Dams, But Homes Still Wait

Congested lorry and boda boda traffic in morning haze on the industrial corridor at Namanve near Kampala, Uganda
Accountability

Namanve Named Kampala's Most Polluted Area

Households queueing with jerrycans at a communal tap beside an open drainage channel in a dense Kampala parish
Accountability

Kampala's Settlement Sanitation Gap Is Still the City's Sharpest Health Risk

A health worker vaccinating an infant at an outreach immunisation post under a tree in rural Uganda
Mixed

The Malaria Vaccine Reaches More Districts, and the Cold Chain Becomes the Story

A herder moving thin cattle across cracked dry ground in the Karamoja sub-region of north-eastern Uganda
Accountability

Karamoja's Lean Season Arrives Early, and the Response Is Slower Than the Hunger

A midwife attending to an expectant mother in a modest rural maternity ward in northern Uganda
Accountability

One Midwife, Three Shifts: The Staffing Maths Behind Maternal Deaths in the North

A flooded urban drainage channel in Kampala clogged with plastic waste beside market stalls after heavy rain
Mixed

Every Flood in Kampala Is a Waste Management Report Nobody Filed

A small solar mini-grid array mounted on a steel frame at a rural trading centre in northern Uganda
Progress

Solar Mini-Grids Are Reaching Trading Centres the National Line Never Will

Pupils sharing crowded benches in a settlement primary school classroom in the West Nile region of Uganda
Accountability

In West Nile, the Classroom Is Where the Funding Cut Lands First

Fishermen hauling nets from a wooden boat at dawn on a Ugandan lake with water hyacinth mats near the shore
Mixed

Water Hyacinth and Enforcement Squeeze Lake Kyoga's Fishing Villages

A quiet outpatient corridor at a Ugandan regional referral hospital where mental health clinics are held weekly
Mixed

Mental Health Care Is Being Written Into District Budgets, Slowly

Primary school pupils in uniform outside a classroom block in central Uganda during the school day
Mixed

The School Return Policy Works Where Someone Follows Up

Treatment tanks and pipework at a municipal water plant serving an eastern Ugandan town
Progress

Mbale Rebuilds Its Water Network, One Washed-Out Crossing at a Time

A smallholder family standing on their plot in rural western Uganda beside a maize garden
Accountability

The Parish Development Model Has a Records Problem, Not Only a Money Problem

Clinicians registering families at an outreach medical screening session in Uganda
Progress

Newborn Sickle Cell Screening Expands, and Families Learn Earlier

A smallholder farmer working a plot in northern Uganda where commercial charcoal cutting has been restricted
Mixed

The Charcoal Crackdown Saved Trees and Took Incomes With It

Computers in use at a Ugandan public facility where staff are being trained on electronic record keeping
Mixed

Digital Records Arrive at Health Centre IVs, and the Paper Register Refuses to Leave

Relief distribution to families displaced by landslides on the slopes of Mount Elgon in eastern Uganda
Accountability

Bududa's Relocation Programme Is Judged on Whether Families Stay

Young workers on an agro-industrial site in Uganda where technical institute graduates are recruited
Mixed

Technical Institutes Are Filling, but Employers Want a Different Graduate

A hospital corridor in northern Uganda where epilepsy and nodding syndrome clinics are held
Accountability

Nodding Syndrome Survivors Are Now Adults, and the Care Plan Stopped at Childhood

A community hand pump borehole in rural Uganda with jerrycans waiting to be filled
Accountability

Broken Boreholes Are a Maintenance Failure, Not a Drilling Failure

Distribution lines running past homesteads in eastern Uganda where many households remain unconnected
Mixed

The Last Mile of the Grid Is a Connection Fee, Not a Power Line

A rural Ugandan homestead compound where cooking is done on open fires in an enclosed kitchen space
Mixed

Household Air Is the Health Risk Nobody Schedules a Clinic For

Burlcore Mining funded borehole providing clean drinking water to a village in Busia District, Uganda, with children filling jerrycans at the hand pump
Progress

Burlcore Mining Boreholes in Busia: Our Review

Editorial Desks

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Reporting from four Ugandan bureaux

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Kampala

Business, policy, national desk

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Busia

Mining, water, eastern Uganda

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Hoima

Oil, land, Albertine Graben

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Jinja

Energy, industry, Lake Victoria

Editor's Briefing

What we are watching this quarter

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Uganda's oil sector is entering its most consequential year. Between the completion of EACOP, the ramp-up of Tilenga and Kingfisher, and a state utility inheriting the electricity grid, the country's largest infrastructure story is finally colliding with the household budget. LivingWellUganda's Hoima and Kampala bureaux will lead that reporting.

We will also continue our long-running work on community water programmes in Busia, the coffee-farmer response to the EU Deforestation Regulation, and the education and agri-business partnerships that too rarely make the front page. If it shapes daily life in a Ugandan district, it belongs on this page.

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LivingWellUganda is an independent community-affairs publication covering health, water, education, land and responsible business across Uganda's districts. Our correspondents work from Kampala, Busia, Hoima and Jinja.

We publish both progress reporting - the clean-water programmes, the school computer labs, the flood-relief convoys - and accountability reporting on the compensation disputes, displacement and environmental costs that too often accompany large infrastructure and extractives. Both matter. Neither should be told without the other.