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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Parliamentary committee on trade has included zoning in the Sugar Bill 2016, which was recently returned by President Museveni. The Sugar Bill is meant to ensure that there is a sustainable, diversified, harmonized, modern and competitive sugar sector to meet domestic, regional and International …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The government will start repaying the Kampala-Expressway loan in July.  The loan worth US 350 Million Dollars (approximately 1.2 Trillion shillings) was acquired from the Exim Bank of China. In May 2011, government through Ministry of Finance signed a loan agreement with the Exim Bank …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Ministry of Works and Transport is finally moving to tighten controls over operations of public transport in Uganda, more than 18 years after government liberalized the sector. The latest move will streamline mechanisms for setting fair and reasonable transport fares on all the …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The National Resistance Movement (NRM) Electoral Commission chairperson, Dr Tanga Odoi has warned party members intending to contest to remain calm. Odoi says the party electoral commission is midway in preparation for primaries. He says a draft roadmap was tabled before the NRM Central Executive …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | More than 1,000 police officers from the ranks of Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) to Special Police Constable (SPC) risk being deleted from the Police Force’s payroll system after missing out on the manpower audit. An internal police message dated April 24, 2019, from Police …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Parliament has increased the budget for Uganda Road Fund-URF from 36 billion shillings to 507.4 billion shillings. The decision was based on a recommendation in the physical infrastructure committee report on the need to reinstate the Fund’s budget to over 500 billion shillings as in …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Electoral Commission Secretary, Sam Rwakoojo, has issued a registration certificate to Gen. Mugisha Muntu’s new political party, Alliance for National Transformation – ANT. The certificate, which our reporter has seen, is dated April 25, 2019. Rwakoojo says the certificate was issued in accordance with the …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Parliament has rejected a proposal by the government to allocate sh484.2 billion to recapitalize the Bank of Uganda (BOU) , reducing it to sh200 billion. The changes were made on Friday as Parliament adopted the report by parliament’s Finance Committee on the Finance Sector …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  Speaker of Parliament Rebecca Kadaga has resumed her duties after close to a month’s absence due to illness. Kadaga resumed business by launching the Commonwealth Parliamentary conference website in her boardroom.  Kadaga fell ill on March 21st and was first hospitalized reportedly suffering exhaustion …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Mabare Tours and Travel Company is on the spot for conning sixteen tourists. The tourists included Ugandans and several foreigners who had paid for an Easter package trip to Murchison falls National Park The tourists paid between 350,000 shillings to 1 million shillings to …