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16 February 2024, 8:02 am

Improved Performance as UNEB Releases Final Results Under Old UCE Curriculum

The Uganda National Examinations Board (UNEB) has released the examination results for the final group learners under the lower secondary old curriculum, revealing a modest improvement in performance compared to the previous year.  According to Dan Odongo, the Executive Director…

13 February 2024, 7:47 am

Kagadi Man Kills Colleague over UGX 2000 Debt

Police in Kicucura sub-county, Kagadi district, are actively searching for a man who allegedly murdered his brother over a 2000 Shilling debt. The shocking incident happened yesterday Monday in the same area. The victim, identified as Frank Asiimwe, and the…

10 February 2024, 4:14 pm

UPDF officer arrested for allegedly stealing cattle in Kagadi

A one top UPDF officer at a rank of Major and two others have yesterday (Friday) survived lynching by an angry mob in Bwikara Sub County on allegations of cattle theft. The incident transpired in Kisura trading center Bwikara Sub…

9 February 2024, 8:35 am

Government Launches Micro Scale Irrigation Initiative in Kagadi to Boost Agricul…

The Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry, and Fisheries, in collaboration with Kagadi district local government, convened a high-level stakeholders’ awareness meeting yesterday (Thursday) to inaugurate the micro-scale irrigation program at Kagadi Community Hall in Kagadi town council. Attended by Lc3…

6 February 2024, 7:17 am

Two Arrested Over murder of Kikuube Retired Teacher

Two suspects, Sadick Mwesigye, 46, and James Kaahwa, 60, both residents of Rwomubazi cell in Buhimba town council, Kikuube district, are currently in custody at the Kikuube central police station on allegations of murdering Henry Benjamin Kaija, a 64-year-old retired…

26 January 2024, 8:32 am

96% of Ugandans Unaware of Malaria Infections

During a yesterday’s (Thursday)  health interview with our reporter, Dr. Julius Birungi, Director of Kagadi Community Health Center and a physician at Kagadi General Hospital, disclosed a startling revelation of 96% of Ugandans are unknowingly living with malaria. Dr. Birungi…

Mission and Vision

MISSION
-To enable communities actively participate in decision
making on sustainable development
-It offers a plat form and voice of the marginalized to ensure
exchange of ideas, experience and enhance solidarity for
shared vision and action

KKCR VISION
Forum for participation and information sharing for rural
transformation.

-Enable people tell and document their history and culture
-As an education facility through modular course targeted at
farmers, business people and artisans
-Enable communities to participate in developing, producing
their own Programmes

BACKGROUND OF KKCR (91.7 FM)
This is the first community radio station in Uganda based in
Kagadi Town Council of Kibaale district mid-western
Uganda. KKCR is a product of partnership between the
communities in Kibaale and the URDT an indigenous
nongovernmental organization and it’s regulated by Uganda
Communication Commission (UCC)


KKCR is part of East African community media Programme
(EACMP) initiated in 1992 after the RIO World Earth
Summit in De-janairo Brazil. It has strong orientation to
Environmental Management and people participation in
decision making about the action points of the agenda 21.


The radio has primarily a developmental function. It has an
open-door policy and acts as platform to community members
and development partners to share sustainable development,
thoughts no decision making, accountability, good
governance, environment human rights, health and nutrition,
agriculture and service delivery.