A team of walkers led by journalist and road safety advocate Joseph Beyanga, popularly known as Joe Walker, this morning set off for a 60-kilometre Road Safety Remembrance Walk from Sheraton Hotel in Kampala.
The 2025 Joe Walker Remembrance Relay Walk, organised in a relay format, aims to commemorate lives lost on Uganda’s roads and raise nationwide awareness about the need for safer road practices.
Read more on The PML Daily website.
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Ministry of Works and Transport is now appealing for support from the public to reduce traffic accident deaths by at least half by 2030.
This is one of the new approaches that Uganda has decided to employ having performed poorly in the first UN-supported global resolution to half the deaths by 2020. Globally, road traffic crashes are the 18th leading cause of death, with more than 1.35 million deaths and up to a 50million injuries recorded every year according to the Global status report on road safety.
Read more on The independent website.
Forty-six people have been killed after several vehicles crashed on a major highway in Uganda, the police say. The police revised down an earlier death toll of 63, saying they had mistakenly included victims who were unconscious and were now being treated.
The crash occurred when two buses travelling in opposite directions "met head on" while trying to overtake two other vehicles – a lorry and a car – on the Kampala-Gulu Highway at 00:15 local time (21:15 GMT), the Uganda Police Force said.
Read more on The BBC website.
For Kenyan journalists, being labeled an accident reporter is not a compliment. According to BBC Africa Health Correspondent Dorcas Wangira, "It's actually an insult."
New hires are often given the unloved job of covering Kenya's fatal road crashes. "I started out in local media in Kenya," Wangira says. "But as I grew, it became clear that it's not just about deaths, it's about solutions and what we can do. Stories are about what changes."
Read more on The ThinkGlobalHealth website.
In 2024, 19,940 people lost their lives in road crashes across the EU, according to latest statistics released by the European Commission today. This represents a 2% decrease compared to 2023 and marks continued, but slow, progress toward the EU's Vision Zero goal of halving road deaths and serious injuries by 2030 and getting close to eliminating them by 2050.
At 45 deaths per million population, the EU continues to have among the safest roads globally. However, behind these statistics are thousands of families and communities affected by tragic and preventable losses.
Read more on The European Commission website.
Mukono, Uganda | Speaker of Parliament Rt. Hon. Anita Annet Among on Saturday evening narrowly survived a road incident when a speeding trailer nearly rammed into her official convoy along the Kampala–Jinja highway near Mukono.
According to Parliament’s Director of Communications, Chris Obore, the incident occurred at about 5:45 p.m when the Speaker was returning to Kampala from Bugweri District, where she had been campaigning for President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni in her capacity as NRM Second National Vice Chairperson (Female).
Read more on The CHIMPREPORTS website.
The Uganda Police Force has released stringent traffic guidelines to manage the anticipated influx of candidates, supporters, and media in Kampala during the 2026 presidential nominations set for September 23, and 24, 2025.
The measures aim to prevent the gridlock and unrest that marred past electoral events, particularly during the 2021 nominations, as the country prepares for a heated race culminating in the January 12, 2026, general election.
Read more on The Explorer website.
Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) has released its fourth Annual Road Safety Report, revealing a 2% reduction in road traffic deaths in 2024 compared to the previous year. In addition, the Authority has launched a new mass media campaign aimed at curbing speeding in school zones and other high-risk areas.
The Kampala Annual Road Safety Report 2024, developed from police crash records highlights both progress and ongoing challenges in the city’s road safety efforts. Reported fatalities fell from 411 in 2023 to 404 in 2024, reducing the death rate from 10.6 to 9.9 per 100,000 population.
Read more on The KCCA website.
The International Road Federation (IRF Global) hosted a high-impact webinar addressing the urgent global need for safer roads through the use of crash-tested, performance-based roadside safety hardware. More than 330 professionals from 57 countries joined the virtual session, reflecting the global scale and interest in advancing road safety solutions.
Read more on The IRF Global website.
The Ministry of Works and Transport (MoWT) has commenced a comprehensive engagement with key road safety stakeholders, including civil society organizations, ahead of the rollout of Uganda’s mandatory vehicle inspection program. The engagement, held at the Namanve Motor Vehicle Inspection Facility, gave participants a firsthand look at the automated inspection process that will soon be applied to all vehicles in the country.
During the session, Commissioner for Transport Regulation and Safety, Winstone Katushabe, and his technical team demonstrated the facility’s advanced automated systems designed to assess critical vehicle safety components such as brakes, suspension, lighting systems, and other essential features.
Read more on The NilePost website.
