NEWS

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A ban on the exportation of minerals by the government is taking a toll on the tin miners in Ntungamo district. The miners most of them attached at to Zanack Holdings are concerned about the ever dropping prices of tin which have dropped from 22,000 …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Government has given Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) the go ahead to introduce the long awaited Digital Tracking Solution (Digital Tax Stamps). Speaking at a joint press conference Friday with Uganda Manufacturers Association, The Prime Minister’s Office and Ministry of Finance, URA spokesman Vincent Seruma …

  Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Parliament has resolved to honour gold medalists, Joshua Cheptegei and Halimah Nakaayi for flying the Uganda flag high at the recent Doha IAAF World Athletics Championships. In October Cheptegei won the men’s 10,000 metres race, while Nakaayi picked gold in the women’s 800 metres …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Four Ugandan fishermen have been abducted on Lake Albert in Hoima district by militiamen reportedly from the Democratic Republic of Congo – DRC. The abducted fishermen have only been identified as: Okello, Jawia, Onen and Osaga all attached to Kijangi landing site in Buseruka sub …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Ugandan Editors have condemned the attacks and restrictions on journalists covering the strike at Makerere University. Students at the university have been involved in running battles with security for more than a week, as they led a strike against a cumulative 15 per cent increment …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Doris Akol, the Uganda Revenue Authority-URA Commissioner General, has recalled the order that required individuals and corporations transferring sh50 million and more abroad to have a tax certificate. The order, which became public on Wednesday and had been issued by Commissioner Domestic Taxes Henry Saka, …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Uganda Prisons services is seeking to secure at least 8,000 acres of farmland for commercial cotton growing in the newly created Karenga district. This is part of Presidential directive on large scale cotton-growing throughout the country. Karenga, bordering South Sudan from the North-Eastern part …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The commencement of the implementation of the e-government procurement process will take a little longer than anticipated with government saying the system still has gaps. Benson Turamye, the Executive Director of Public Procurement and Disposal of Public Assets Authority (PPDA), said on Thursday that the …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs Gen. Kahinda Otafire has said that he legally acquired 50 acres of Njeru stock farm land. Otafire told Parliament on Thursday that he did not grab government land, but bought it from an individual. The 1,099-acre farm located …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Speaker of Parliament Rebecca Kadaga has directed the Education Committee to investigate the unrest at Makerere University. Kadaga’s directive followed a debate of the students strike and the brutal raids by the army on students Halls of residence. On Wednesday, Parliament passed a motion …