Ugandan safari operator Amos Wekesa recently visited the government-owned Kigali Golf Resort in Rwanda and returned with a powerful message for Uganda’s tourism industry: golf and wildlife can be the perfect partnership. While exploring the resort’s world-class 18-hole course, tennis courts, swimming pools, and restaurants, Wekesa noticed something striking, dozens of foreign golfers were not […]
As Uganda unveils her ambitious 2025/2026 tourism budget of 430 billion UGX ($115 million USD), a comparative look at East Africa’s tourism investments and their economic impacts reveals both opportunities and challenges across the region. With the sector’s potential to drive economic growth and job creation, how do Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, and Rwanda stack up? […]
In a heartwarming addition to Rwanda’s thriving mountain gorilla population, a new baby gorilla was born to mother Umoja of the Hirwa group in Volcanoes National Park, as announced by Volcanoes Safaris on June 12th, 2025. The gorilla birth, captured in stunning photographs by local photographer Jean Marie Vianney Ndagiwenimana, brings the total number of […]
The government of Rwanda has announced the reopening of the Gatuna/Katuna border after nearly three years of closure. On February 28, 2019, Rwanda closed its border with Uganda at Gatuna. Katuna is a town in Kabale District of Uganda at the border with Rwanda. In Kinyarwanda language the town is called Gatuna. Katuna is located […]