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Art & CultureTravel & Tourism

Nyege Nyege keeps on dancing, too fast for the moral police — and terrorists(?)

Annual music festival returns, with moral hysteria and bans replaced by terror warnings
A performance stage at the Nyege Nyege festival in Bujagali, Jinja, October 2015
Energy, Oil & GasPolitics & Policy

#SaveMurchisonFalls: Is Bonang Power taking us for a ride?

Bonang Power, the South African company that says it intends to construct a 360MW hydropower dam near Murchison Falls, does not fit the profile of a firm capable of carrying out such a project
Murchison Falls
OpinionTravel & Tourism

Local links across Africa provide key clues to fighting the illegal ivory trade

For its part, Uganda has served as the transit country – the country that goods are transported through to their final destination in a third country – for ivory.
Travel & Tourism

East Africa airports seeing increase in tourist arrivals, but not Entebbe

What makes for a busy East African airport? Tourism and airline hubs, according to travel data company ForwardKeys
Ground support equipment at Entebbe International Airport
Politics & PolicyTravel & Tourism

Uganda’s elephant numbers go up, but poaching a growing threat

The International Union for Conservation of Nature says elephants in Uganda have increased by about 1000, from 3,944 in 2005 to 4,923 last year, even as they have dropped across Africa.
DataTravel & Tourism

Entebbe left out of East Africa’s tourist arrivals boom this year

Between January and August, bookings transactions for people travelling to East Africa grew by 11.2% compared to the same period last year, according to ForwardKeys, a company that predicts future travel patterns by analysing flight reservation data.
Politics & PolicyTravel & Tourism

There is no evidence that higher entry visa fees were affecting tourist arrivals

A year after government increased the single entry visa fee to $100 from $50, it reversed the decision. The new rate, $50, became effective on 22 July. Tourism operators and other stakeholders welcomed the announcement enthusiastically, saying it made Uganda more competitive in the region. But will the reduction in the fee increase the number of tourist arrivals?