Entrepreneurship is a rollercoaster of exhilarating wins and devastating losses—and not every person is cut out for the career. There are plenty who hope to match the success of billionaire founders like Brian Chesky, who scaled Airbnb into a $79 billion rental behemoth. But there’s one question the CEO says aspiring founders need to ask themselves before trying to emulate his success.
“I like to ask entrepreneurs a question: ‘Why does your company deserve to exist?’” Chesky revealed on stage at the Masters of Scale Summit.
“The best kind of generic answer I’ve ever heard is, ‘Because if I don’t do it, no one else will.’ And I like to ask that question of myself, ‘What could we uniquely do that if we don’t do it, anyone else will?’”
Chesky has been open about the trials and tribulations of scaling his startup into the giant it is today—including that it can be an extremely isolating experience. It’s why, he said, it’s important that budding business leaders be closely connected to their work’s purpose. If they lose sight of why their company deserves to exist—or are just blindly following a business wave—then it could get lost in a crowded industry of passionate, innovative entrepreneurs.
“I think that [entrepreneurs] should ask, ‘If you never existed, what would be different about the world? What is your unique imprint to do?’” Chesky continued, adding that too many aspiring founders chase trends. “I think business leaders should focus on a unique contribution they can make.”
Leaders at Amazon, Starbucks, and Perplexity have advice for aspiring entrepreneurs
Chesky is one of many unicorn founders passing down their words of wisdom—and caution—to the next cohort of Fortune 500 leaders.
Jeff Bezos, founder of $2 trillion e-commerce giant Amazon, relayed a hard truth to Gen Z entrepreneurs: it isn’t always the best choice to drop out of an Ivy League school and launch a business, like Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates. Not everyone is guaranteed that their sacrifices will lead to a billion-dollar innovation. Instead, Bezos pointed to his own career journey as a good model for success: go to college, get a normal job, then chase the entrepreneurial daydreams later after having soaked in plenty of knowledge from the business world.
“I started Amazon when I was 30, not when I was 20, and I think that that extra 10 years of experience actually improved the odds that Amazon would succeed,” Bezos said.
Howard Schultz, the longtime former CEO of $96 billion coffee giant Starbucks, echoed Bezos’ advice that bushy-tailed entrepreneurs shouldn’t jump the gun on starting a business. They should spend part of their careers clocking in, and working under a boss—it’ll give them a peek under the hood of what’s to come.
“At 22, you would benefit from working for a company that can teach you and demonstrate to you how an organization works—as long as that company has values that are compatible with your own,” Schultz toldFortune last year. “There’s great benefit to being in an organization and seeing firsthand how a company actually operates, and what happens on the inside, before you do this yourself.”
The cofounder and CEO of $18 billion AI company Perplexity, Aravind Srinivas, advises entrepreneurs to pair a deep sense of purpose with speed because if they move slowly, a competitor could beat them to the punch—no matter how passionate they are.
“You should assume that if you have a big hit, if your company is something that can make revenue on the scale of hundreds of millions of dollars or potentially billions of dollars, you should always assume that a model company will copy it,” Srinivas said at Y Combinator’s AI Startup School earlier this year.
“You’ve got to live with that fear and you have to embrace it. Realize that your mode comes from moving fast and building your own identity around what you’re doing because users at the end care.”
MBW’s World’s Greatest Producers series sees us interview – and celebrate – some of the outstanding talents working in studios across the decades. Mike Sabath is the creative collaborator behind Raye’s recent global breakout. He has also produced artists such as Sabrina Carpenter, Liam Payne and Madison Beer – and is about to release a debut album of his own. World’s Greatest Producers is supported by Kollective Neighbouring Rights, the neighbouring rights agent that empowers and equips clients with knowledge to fully maximise their earnings.
Mike Sabath travelled halfway round the world to get to Glastonbury 2025, but it was only when he arrived that he realized exactly why he was there.
Stood in the crowd as Raye – much of whose landmark My 21st Century Bluesalbum Sabath had produced – entranced the Pyramid Stage, lost in her moment of personal and musical redemption, he had his own flash of revelation.
“Raye and I met when we were 18 or 19,” he says. “Getting to watch an artist play in tiny rooms and make music with them, have that music connect and then be standing with 100,000 people at Glastonbury and they’re singing our lyrics is fucking ridiculous.
“Getting to see the vision that I always had for her and always believed in and she always, at her core, believed in for herself, and people crying, dancing and singing… It was absolutely beautiful. Making something that connects is such an insane feeling.”
Of course, Sabath would hardly be the first musician to arrive on Worthy Farm and get high on the leylines and the general vibes. But you get the impression he’s always like this. He speaks passionately about how music is core to the human experience and how his recent solo tour, in which he drove around America in an RV, recording in the wild and playing shows for whoever and wherever would have him, was driven to prove his personal “thesis that humans are good”.
Speaking in laidback tones and long, sometimes tangential sentences, Sabath occasionally sounds as much like a cult leader as a top hitmaker – he says he uses the interview process to understand himself better (“I’m an unusual guy – I’m learning that I’m more unusual than I really understood, to be honest”). But it’s this deep thinking, empathetic approach and unique worldview that makes him such an exceptional producer, the person musicians call when they want to get their true, artistic self out there.
Sabath grew up outside New York and started playing music very young, but always took it seriously. His parents pushed him academically but supported his music career, as long as the latter didn’t affect the former. So Sabath would diligently do all his homework at school in breaktime so that, when he got home, he could head straight to the basement and make music.
His two worlds only diverged when he turned down a place at Harvard to concentrate on his music – and landed a publishing deal with what was then Sony/ATV three hours later. Even with that deal in his pocket, he’d hustle relentlessly: he would sit in the middle seat on any flight so he could make two different connections, while he and his manager would turn up to studios and blag their way into sessions (“It was absolutely psychotic, but it worked”).
It paid off too. He co-wrote sports highlights favorite Get Loud For Me with Gizzle at a Sony songwriting camp, Aaron Bay-Schuck – now CEO and co-chairman of Warner Records, but then an Interscope A&R – asked him to collaborate with Selena Gomez and suddenly he was being invited into sessions, rather than gatecrashing them.
Still signed to Sony today, he’s subsequently worked with everyone from Sabrina Carpenter to Lizzo, Zara Larsson to Meghan Trainor, and Liam Payne to Madison Beer. It’s since he shifted his approach, however – devoting time and energy to major projects rather than doing multiple sessions with multiple artists – that his stock has really soared. As well as collaborating on My 21st Century Blues and Raye’s hotly anticipated follow-up (Sabath co-wrote and produced Raye’s current smash, Where Is My Husband!), he helped craft Shawn Mendes’ uber-personal Shawn album.
And he’s worked with former Little Mix star Jade, co-writing and producing several tracks on her That’s Showbiz Baby! album, including the epic single Angel Of My Dreams (“That was a day of not giving a literal fuck, and that aligned with her needing to say something to the music industry”).
Sabath originally wanted to be an artist and spent the summer re-focused on his solo career, releasing an excellent double single, Do You Mind?/High, with an album, Attention Maximum, on the way. He buzzes about his tour, which saw him performing everywhere from Bonnaroo – where he played on the roof of his RV, despite the festival being washed out – to random farms in Missouri (“They let us play for their hillbilly community and shoot fireworks”).
He plans to continue his solo career alongside his production work (“It’s cool how they feed each other), with multiple big studio projects on the horizon, and also wants to help mentor young producers in the way the craft’s elder statesmen and women welcomed him as the new kid on the block.
First, however, he needs to sit down in his LA studio and channel his energy into talking MBW through streaming, AI and Raye’s big lesson for the music industry…
HAS IT BEEN NICE TO EMBRACE YOUR ARTIST SIDE?
Yeah, it’s been important. Four or five months ago, when I was working on literally four albums at once and it was out of control and really intense, I was feeling like I couldn’t touch production for a second. I was really tired in that space.
My own art is an important side of my life that really needed attention, so I gave it that time. What’s beautiful is, I’m now returning to production fully energized. They are really two different basins of energy and they enable each other to grow.
I feel so fresh, like I’m at the beginning of this new chapter of my production career, and I have zero ego right now. That’s so important; a pinch of ego had arrived and now, in this new chapter, I feel like a student again.
WAS IT A BRAVE DECISION TO PUT YOUR PRODUCTION WORK ON HOLD?
When I was younger, it was much easier to make insane decisions, because you’ve got no fear – like, ‘I don’t even know what fear means, fuck it.’
As I’ve gotten a little older and been afraid of things, I’m lucky that I made some big brave decisions when I was younger that really changed my life. I’ve been able to reference those in moments when I need to choose something scary and been like, ‘Well, when you decided this, something responded’. Bravery is rewarded, but fear is the ultimate killer of anything.
“Life ultimately comes down to honing your instinct, trusting that and letting it be the guide to making choices.”
Life ultimately comes down to honing your instinct, trusting that and letting it be the guide to making choices – whether that’s life choices, money, where I spend my energy, which instruments I’m choosing for a different record at different moments, or which artists I’m working with.
IS THAT HARDER TO DO WHEN THE STAKES ARE HIGH ON AN ARTIST’S PROJECT, LIKE THEY WERE WITH RAYE’S ALBUM?
That was a scary choice; it was riskier, potentially financially, it was less stable. But when I decided to do the Raye album, that ultimately completely elevated and changed my production career. And her career too.
It literally gave both of us such an enormous jump in our careers and that was because I was like, ‘It’s time to focus on something I really believe in and see what happens when I do that’. Rather than put my energy all over the place, I’ll put it in one place and be with someone amazing.
SHE MADE A BOLD CHOICE HERSELF, LEAVING HER LABEL AND GOING IT ALONE. WERE YOU AWARE OF HOW VITAL IT WAS FOR HER CAREER THAT THIS RECORD SUCCEEDED?
That wasn’t a thought. Her deciding, ‘No more of this, I refuse’, changed her life.
We have so much love for each other, which is also the foundation of a great record: love and trust between the producer and the artist. But a big reason the record was great because I was certainly not bringing any energy into the room around, ‘This has to be so good or it’s like…’ Because if you bring that in, all of a sudden, you’re doing it for someone else. And if you’re making music for someone else, it’s going to probably be fucking mid.
My entire focus in that album was Rachel. I said, ‘People don’t know you as an artist yet, they know you as a voice, and we’re introducing you as an artist.’
That was everything. Every time she was like, ‘Shall we put one of these [more commercial] types of songs on it?’, I was like, ‘Raye, we’re introducing you as an artist, remember? Whatever story you need to tell and whatever you need to share, is the only thing we need to be focused on’.
DID YOU AT LEAST REALIZE HOW SUCCESSFULLY YOU WERE DOING THAT?
No, I didn’t bring that into the room either! I really tried to not think about anything that would happen after [the record’s release], I was trying to be as present as possible.
“That is my job as a producer: to trust my instincts and the people I’m working with so I can get them into a space of openness, trust, truth and love.”
If it’s going well and the artist’s eyes are glowing and they’re inspired, the job of the producer is to get the human you’re working with aligned with themselves, remove their fear and activate it. That’s the goal. If you can get any human like that it’s great, but if you can get a human who is also talented in that space, you’re probably going to make something fucking sick. That’s the secret.
That is my job as a producer: to trust my instincts and the people I’m working with so I can get them into a space of openness, trust, truth and love. The talent they have will then come through and then, as long as I steer the ship – and, at this point, I can produce a song – then that’s kinda that.
DO YOU THINK RAYE’S SUCCESS TAUGHT THE MUSIC INDUSTRY A LESSON?
I do. That record, that moment and her career now, that was impactful.
Labels were shifting anyway, but that was the most significant moment of an artist doing something a) not with a major, and b) publicly being like, ‘I don’t need one’.
It switched up labels. Labels are tricky because they’re firing everyone and they’re really just operating off analytics, and that’s weird. Ultimately, that means it’s up to the creatives to keep things going that are from a place of art, rather than a place of numbers. Being on the artist side, it’s scary, it’s really hard to have [your career] be sustainable so it makes sense why it’s been discouraging for a lot of people.
But it cycles and I think a lot of great art is coming back. We’re seeing a lot of great shit happening and we’re seeing people respond to art. They’re also responding to things that are numerically doing well, but people are open to people making things they’re inspired about.
DOES THE INDUSTRY PLACE ENOUGH VALUE ON SONGWRITERS AND PRODUCERS?
Some people do, some people don’t. Socially, they’re being like, ‘We have to celebrate the songwriters, do these awards and talk about these things’. But paying them well? It’s like, ‘Errr…’.
There are people who are fighting. Big Jon [Platt, pictured] at Sony [Music Publishing], for example, is fucking amazing. He actively tries to push for the forward motion of business for songwriters. I respect that man so much, he really shows a lot of love socially and in person for songwriters and backs it. But it’s obviously hard to move giant businesses.
There are so many things in America that used to be quiet that are now loud, so people can be aware, make noise and push energy towards shifting things – and it’s the same in music.
More people are aware that songwriters even exist – that was not even a thing the public knew about at all. People were like, ‘I thought every artist wrote their songs?’
And, within the industry, songwriters are more aware because there are now TikTok or Instagram accounts that provide information.
There’s more money in music than ever before – that’s something that is kept quiet. And this certain percentage of it is going to labels, streaming platforms etc, this percentage is going to artists and this percentage to songwriters and producers.
I’ve been working in the music industry for eight years and I’m still like, ‘Wait, how do I get paid? How does it work? There’s 100 points and we only have, like, four? Hold on!’
So, just getting the information is really important for the community to be like, ‘Shit, we should probably stand up because we make all the songs!’
“We’re in transition, the old ways are becoming old, the people who want to keep it that way are fighting and the people who want change are fighting and eventually it will shift, because that’s how it goes.”
We’re in transition, the old ways are becoming old, the people who want to keep it that way are fighting and the people who want change are fighting and eventually it will shift, because that’s how it goes. But it’s going to take more time.
It’s discouraging a lot of creatives from creating and it’s making that step from amateur to pro really hard. Because, as a songwriter, you can only make money if you have a big song, and having a big song takes years. You can have a hit randomly but to have a sustainable career, it takes so long to get into a room where you’re able to have a big song.
It’s preventing a lot of people from pursuing it and committing to it, which will then create more space for a robot to make the songs.
HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT AI’S POTENTIAL IMPACT ON PRODUCTION AND SONGWRITING?
AI is a really helpful tool. But I don’t support it being in the forefront of music-making. It probably can make good songs, but I don’t think that’s cool. That’s putting energy into non-human activity, and I personally support human activity.
WHAT WILL HAPPEN IF YOU BECOME A MASSIVE STAR AS AN ARTIST?
That would be so fun! But I’d definitely still want to make records with other people. I love making music and, when I’m in that space, I have the best time of my life. When something is such a part of you, you forget how important it is to your equation of peace.
If you’re doing anything, make sure you’re doing it for yourself, and not for other people, because you’re not going to be happy. If you’re making music to prove something to someone else, you probably should do something else. But, if you’re making music because it fuels your soul, you should do it, no matter what.
Follow the thing that makes your eyes glow and your heart open, because it’s good for you and, ultimately, it’s going to be good for everyone else around you.
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South African authorities have suspended eight pupils linked to a case of alleged bullying that has caused national outrage.
A video showing a horrific assault at Milnerton high school in Cape Town last week has been widely shared on social media.
Several boys are seen repeatedly hitting a fellow pupil with various objects, including a hockey stick, hose pipe and belt. According to reports, the boy was one of nine allegedly assaulted.
Bullying in schools is a significant problem in South Africa, with videos depicting the violent attacks often going viral. This latest clip is among the most horrific to emerge in recent years.
Organisations and political parties have condemned the incident, which took place on 16 October, while the police have confirmed that an assault case has been opened.
The mother of the 16-year-old boy being attacked in the video told local online publication, News24, that her son had had cancer and had completed his chemotherapy earlier this year.
“My child had just beaten cancer [only] for something like this to happen to him,” she is quoted as saying.
The teen’s uncle later told local broadcaster eNCA that the boy had since been removed from the school.
Among those to speak out was Amnesty International South Africa, which said the video was “deeply disturbing” and called for “timely disciplinary action”.
The video, which is just over two minutes long, shows the boy pleading with his attackers to stop hitting him.
While he makes this impassioned plea, one of the boys hits him again with a belt, eliciting laughter from some of the others.
Some of the boys are also seen making funny faces and cheering the boy’s attackers as the camera pans across the room.
“No child should ever endure such brutality in a space where [pupils] should be safe and protected from harm,” the international human rights organisation said in a post on X.
South Africa’s education ministry said it had been in contact with the Western Cape education department, which has oversight over the school, and confirmed that the suspended pupils would face disciplinary action.
The provincial department said it was “treating the matter with the seriousness it warrants”.
Both bodies have urged the public not to share the video of the assault or details of those involved, saying that this “not only exacerbates the trauma experienced by the victim but also undermines the rights and dignity of all the [pupils] involved”.
The chairperson of parliament’s education committee also shared her “utter horror and deep concern” over the video.
Joy Maimela said that the incident “is not merely bullying but borders on assault – a criminal offence that demands urgent and decisive action from all relevant authorities”.
On Wednesday afternoon, outraged parents held a protest outside the school, which is still open.
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Through the first two stops of the World Cup, Hubi Kos is undefeated in backstroke, having won the 50, 100, and 200 in Carmel and Westmont. After his races in Westmont, the Hungarian champion spoke on his Texas training partners, his potential NCAA lineup, and chasing SCM world records.
HOW TO WATCH THE WORLD AQUATICS WORLD CUP
A comprehensive look at television and streaming options for the meet can be found here.
U.S. viewers can watch both prelims and finals on the USA Swimming Network and Peacock, Canadians can stream every session on CBC, and the source for the majority of European nations will be the Eurovision Sportplatform.
The competition will also be streamed live and on-demand with the World Aquatics Recast channel. A three-day pass requires 590 credits, which costs $8.26 USD.
When choosing a protein powder, we generally want it to be low in sugar and carbohydrates, and to not taste terrible. We don’t even consider that it might also be packed with dangerously high levels of lead. But this is what a new report has found, analyzing 23 popular protein supplements on US shelves.
In a new Consumer Reports (CR) investigation, a team of researchers tested 23 protein powders and ready-to-drink shakes from popular brands, finding that heavy metal contamination is more common than traditionally thought, flagging new concerns about how healthy these health products actually are.
“It’s concerning that these results are even worse than the last time we tested,” said Tunde Akinleye, a CR food safety researcher who led the project. “This time, in addition to the average level of lead being higher than what we found 15 years ago, there were also fewer products with undetectable amounts of it. The outliers also packed a heavier punch. Naked Nutrition’s Vegan Mass Gainer powder, the product with the highest lead levels, had nearly twice as much lead per serving as the worst product we analyzed in 2010.”
Plant-based products fared the worst, most likely due to how crops absorb heavy metals from the soil, and the amount of concentrated ingredients that make up this type of supplement. The plant-based products all centered on pea protein, which has become increasingly popular in recent years. Two of the powders CR tested had so much lead that researchers advise consumers to avoid them altogether. One serving (usually one or two scoops) contained between 1,200% and 1,600% the “level of concern” for lead (0.5 micrograms per day). Two others had 400% to 600% of that 0.5 μg daily amount. Overall, the lead levels in plant-based powders were nine times higher than those found in whey protein supplements and twice as high as beef-based products.
Dairy-based powders and shakes had the lowest amounts of lead, however, half of the products had levels high enough that the researchers advise against daily consumption. The primary sources of heavy metal contamination in the cow’s environment, said Akinleye, are feed, water and soil.
“For many people, there’s more to lose than you’re gaining,” says Akinleye, who suggests that protein-powder enthusiasts aren’t at risk of immediate harm but should perhaps reduce their consumption.
Undertaking their testing project, CR researchers sourced several samples of each product from different stores over a three-month period from November 2024. Samples from multiple batches of each of the 23 different products were analyzed to assess total protein, arsenic, cadmium, lead and other elements. The results were averaged, but researchers also note that the findings may not be a precise reflection of what’s currently on offer from the companies given the time lag. (For more details on the testing methods, see the methodology sheet).
One positive is that all products contained the advertised amount of protein, or more (20-60 g a serve). But it was the lead levels that stood out across the board. Around 70% of products had more than 120% of CR’s “level of concern.” Three products also exceeded “level of concern” amounts for cadmium and inorganic arsenic.
Naked Nutrition’s Mass Gainer powder contained 7.7 μg of lead per serve, or 1,570% of CR’s level of concern. Huel’s Black Edition powder contained 6.3 μg of lead, or 1,290% of the level of concern. Meanwhile, Garden of Life’s Sport Organic Plant-Based Protein and Momentous’ 100% Plant Protein had between 400% and 600% the level of concern lead content. The researchers say these should be limited to consuming just once a week.
The one non-plant-based protein powder with more than 200% of CR’s level of concern for lead was MuscleMeds’ Carnivor Mass powder. However, six more plant-based powders, five dairy powders and shakes and one beef powder all had lead above CR’s level of concern.
There’s no hiding from the protein wave that’s hit the health and wellness industry in the last few years, and most of us would consider workout supplements an excellent way to boost muscle building and weight training recovery. However, the need may be overblown, the researchers add. The average adult needs around 0.8 g of protein per kilogram of body weight (0.36 g per pound). For a 170-lb (77-kg) adult, they write, that’s around 61 g of protein – a cup of plain Greek yogurt and 3.5 oz (100 g) of chicken breast or 5 oz (142 g) of tempeh.
And according to CR’s American Experiences Survey of 2,153 US adults, one in four people said they have protein powders or shakes at least once a week, and 42% said they eat protein-fortified foods just as often. But unlike over-the-counter and prescription medication, protein powders aren’t subject to any US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) reviews. There are also no federal limits for the amount of heavy metals in these products.
“The FDA can take action if it finds unsafe lead levels, but the lack of enforceable standards means it doesn’t happen nearly enough,” said Brian Ronholm, CR’s director of food policy. “The FDA’s lack of funding and staff makes the problem worse. Establishing enforceable limits in foods and supplements would go a long way in protecting consumers.”
CR reached out to the companies to respond to the findings, with seven – BSN, Dymatize, Jocko Fuel, Muscle Milk, Owyn, PlantFusion and Transparent Labs – failing to reply, and Optimum Nutrition declining to comment. Equip Foods, Garden of Life, KOS, Momentous, Muscle Meds, Muscle Tech, Orgain and Vega all commented that they test their base ingredients and final products for heavy metals.
“We take our customers’ health very seriously,” said Naked Nutrition’s chief marketing officer James Clark, adding that the company sources ingredients from “select suppliers” that provide documentation of heavy-metal analysis. (The company has since requested a third-party analysis of its Mass Gainer protein powder.)
Vega’s head of food science and regulatory, Maribel Aloria said the company “complies with all required safety standards and regulations” and that the product tested is now sourcing its pea protein from North America, not China.
“Because naturally occurring heavy metal levels in plant proteins can reflect the soil in which crops are grown, this sourcing change is relevant to any testing considerations,” Aloria added.
CR has shared its findings with the FDA, and has urged the regulatory organization to shine a spotlight on protein supplements.
“We will review the findings from Consumer Reports’ testing along with other data we have collected to better inform where to focus our testing efforts and enforcement activities,” an FDA spokesperson said.
In the meantime, the researchers suggest you can limit your lead exposure by reducing the protein shakes you have each week, and skip the products with the highest levels as documented in this report. They also recommend avoiding any products with Prop 65 warnings on display and use the new CR chart in the report as a guide.
“We advise against daily use for most protein powders, since many have high levels of heavy metals and none are necessary to hit your protein goals,” said Akinleye.
They also recommend scrutinizing the products to see if lead tests are available online and swapping out the branded powders for other high-protein sources such as Greek yogurt and peanut butter. And, finally, avoid buying into the “added protein” versions of processed foods and choose products naturally high in the macro ingredient – tofu, beans, lentils, lean meats, eggs, for example.
“Protein mania is rampant,” said Nicholas Burd,a professor of health and kinesiology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. “If you [have] a healthy eating pattern, there’s certainly no reason you need an isolated food protein.”
Two buses travelling in opposite directions on the Kampala-Gulu Highway collided head-on while overtaking.
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At least 63 people have been killed in a major road accident involving multiple vehicles on the highway between Uganda’s capital Kampala and the northern city of Gulu, police have said.
The collision took place just after midnight [21:00 GMT on Tuesday] and was caused by two buses coming from opposite directions trying to overtake a truck and a car.
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“In the process, both buses met head-on during the overtaking manoeuvres,” the Uganda Police Force said in a statement on X. “Sixty-three people lost lives, all occupants from involved vehicles.”
The police added that “as investigations continue, we strongly urge all motorists to exercise maximum caution on the roads, especially avoiding dangerous and careless overtaking, which remains one of the leading causes of crashes in the country”.
Those travelling in the truck and the car were injured and taken to Kiryandongo Hospital and other nearby medical facilities, the statement said. It did not give further details on the number injured or the extent of their wounds.
The Kampala-Gulu Highway is one of Uganda’s busiest as it connects the capital with the biggest town in northern Uganda.
