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KAMPALA — Uganda’s Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development, the very institution tasked with protecting vulnerable citizens and championing social justice, has been thrust into the spotlight after the Office of the Auditor General of Uganda uncovered a long list of troubling gaps ranging from ballooning debts and stalled programmes to unresolved complaints from migrant workers and billions in …

Kampala — For years, the National Agricultural Advisory Services (NAADS) sold itself as the engine of Uganda’s agro-industrial transformation. Tea seedlings. Apple orchards. Hass avocado dreams. Irrigation schemes. Heifers for farmers. But the December 2025 Auditor General’s report paints a different picture — one of ballooning arrears, questionable payments, dormant Letters of Credit and a financial hangover that now threatens …

Kampala — For years, the National Agricultural Advisory Services (NAADS) sold itself as the engine of Uganda’s agro-industrial transformation. Tea seedlings. Apple orchards. Hass avocado dreams. Irrigation schemes. Heifers for farmers. Etc. But the December 2025 Auditor General’s report paints a different picture — one of ballooning arrears, questionable payments, dormant Letters of Credit and a financial hangover that now …

Kampala — The latest Auditor General’s report on the National Agricultural Research Organisation (NARO) reads like a catalogue of missed opportunities, stalled projects and internal power struggles at Uganda’s top agricultural research body. At the centre of the storm is the Director General, Dr. Yona Baguma, whose four-year contract runs out next year April. Appointed in April 2023 by the …