Uganda Bureau of Statistics has announced the extension of census days to enable all people to be enumerated.

The census exercise that was meant to end on Sunday (May 19) after its official opening on May 10 has been extended to May 25, 2024.
According to the communication from UBOS Executive Director, Chris Mukiza, published on their social media X formerly Twitter, the decision was reached after establishing that many people would have been locked out if the exercise was to close on Sunday.

The Bureau noted that there are enumeration areas which did not start on the 10th due to login difficulties, and another challenge was the geography of some villages missing on the system owing to incomplete listing during mapping and there are also hard-to-reach areas where enumeration was constrained, making the pace of enumeration slow.
The communication has been sent to the district chief administrative officers, Kampala city Authority, Town clerks and city clerks.

In Teso, some enumerators faced the challenge of roads being submerged due to the floods that washed away many bridges.
On the first day of the exercise, the Serere district woman MP who also doubles as state minister for fisheries Hellen Adoa made an appeal for the extension of the period after the enumeration exercise starting six hours late.