HICGI News Agency

Vice President Alupo Represents Museveni: BRICS Summit, Ends with Renewed Push for a Multipolar World Order.

NEW DELHI, INDIA – By Dr.Kivumbi Earnest Benjamin L. H. D (Hon.)- HICGI News Agency updated at 1613 EAT on Monday 14 September 2026 Vice President Jessica Alupo represented President Yoweri Museveni at the 18th BRICS Summit in New Delhi, India, where she held talks with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on strengthening cooperation between…

Lukyamuzi Takes on Odonga Otto Over Disappearance of Signatures Collected to Impeach the President

On the Senior Citizens Talk, veteran Ugandan politician Hon. John Ken Lukyamuzi, popularly known as The Man, revisits the controversial 2012 impeachment petition against President Museveni and addresses the alleged disappearance of signatures collected to support the motion. In this candid discussion with Dr. Kivumbi Earnest Benjamin, L.H.D. (Hon.), Lukyamuzi also shares his views on…

Uganda and IMF Reach Staff-Level Agreement on a Three-Year US$1 billion Financing Package

By E K Benj updated at 0956 GMT on Friday 4th June 21 Washington, DC: A staff team from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) led by Mr. Amine Mati conducted virtual missions to Uganda from February 2-March 5 and from May 25-May 28, 2021 to discuss a 36-month program under the Extended Credit Facility. At…

Why UN Awarded Tuhaise, Kivumbi, Tenywa, Nakibuule & Mivule

Updated at 1259 GMT on Thursday 03rd June 2021 by Prossy A Will KAMPALA – On 3rd May 2021 Uganda joined the rest of the world to celebrate the International Press Freedom Day under a theme “Information as a Public Good” Several Ugandan Media and Journalists Association convened in different places to reflect on the…

Ugandan Top General survives Assassination

Updated at 0959 GMT on Tuesday 1st May 2021 KAMPALA- HICGI News Agency is confirming an assassination failed plot on Ugandan top Military General Katumba Wamala. A convoy carrying Katumba Wamala, the Minister of Works and Transport and a four-star general in the Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) has been shot at in Kisaasi. The…

Beautiful John Babiiha road- Acacia nearly completion

By Brondon S Abraham- Updated at 0949 GMT on Tuesday 1st June 2021 Kampala Capital City Authority – KCCA has announced that John Babiiha road- Acacia is nearly completion. HICGI News Agency has visited the work which an official says is now at 98% pending installation of traffic lights at the different junctions along the…

A dark cloud has fallen as Hellen Baguma passes on; Pictorial Exclusive

By Prossy S Will – Updated at 0946 GMT on Monday 31st May 2021 WAKISO – David T Baguma Former Executive Director of Association of Microfinance Institutions in Uganda (AMFIU) has lost wife moments ago. Hellen Baguma, a resident on Namasuba Hill who hails from Ntungamo has passed on while being taken to Doctors’ Hospital…

Experts Warn M7 on returning nation to Lockdown

By Prossy S Will – updated at 1843 GMT on Sunday, 30th May 21 KAMPALA – Experts have advised Uganda’s President Yoweri Kaguta T Museveni on returning the country to a lock down amidst fear within citizens. Museveni on Sunday night while addressing the nation said he will be returning this week to the airwaves…

Skin-to-Skin Contact Could Boost Survival of Premature Babies

By Robert Preid Sunday, 30th May 2021 – In a finding that demonstrates the power of a mother’s touch, new research shows that immediate and continuous skin-to-skin contact with mom reduces the risk of death for low-weight newborns in poorer nations. “The idea of giving skin-to-skin contact immediately after delivery to very small, unstable babies…

Profiling Ugandan Politician Betty Amongi

By E K Benj updated at 1335 GMT on Saturday 29th May 21 KAMPALA-HICGI News Agency today profiles Betty Amongi Akena, (née Betty Amongi Ongom), but commonly known as Betty Amongi, a Ugandan politician. Until recent cabinet end of tenure, she has been Cabinet Minister of Kampala Capital City in the Cabinet of Uganda effective 14 December 2019….