Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Uganda Coffee Development Authority-UCDA is encouraging youths to play an active role in the coffee value chain. The authority started by training youth groups on understanding coffee legislation, coffee garden handling, crop management skills and harvest, post-harvest handling and storage, skills of …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Electoral Commission is to spend an additional UGX 16 billion to conduct elections in newly created electoral areas. Speaking to reporters at the Electoral Commission headquarters in Kampala on Friday, Justice Simon Byabakama said that the creation of new electoral areas such constituencies, …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The State Minister for Lands, Persis Namuganza has said the drive for the age limit removal was not Speaker Rebecca Kadaga’s achievement, but the whole NRM party position. On Tuesday, Kadaga said it was her effort that pushed through the unpopular age limit law. She …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Minister of Health Dr Jane Ruth Aceng is irked by the high fees charged by private laboratories to carry out the coronavirus (COVID-19) tests. The Ministry accredited three private laboratories to conduct tests for the virus. But just one of them; Lancet Laboratories …

Washington, US | XINHUA | Major League Soccer side Inter Miami announced the signing of Blaise Matuidi on Wednesday, one day after the French midfielder terminated his contract with Juventus. The 33-year-old joined Juve from Paris Saint-Germain in 2017, and in a three-year stint with the Old Lady, Matuidi made …

London, UK | XINHUA | The extent to which the U.S. tech sector has become dependent on China is “under-appreciated”, said an opinion article recently published by the London-based Financial Times newspaper. “The two tech worlds are connected via a tangle of wiring,” it said, noting that the great uncoupling …

Washington, US | XINHUA | U.S. President Donald Trump’s recent coronavirus relief orders have little to offer for the macro U.S. economy in a crisis, experts said. One of the four executive orders will extend extra unemployment benefits through the end of the year at a level of 400 U.S. …

Kigali, Rwanda | XINHUA | Rwanda’s immigration department on Thursday announced it will replace all passports with the East Africa e-passports after June 27, 2019. “All passports issued before June 27, 2019, will be phased out, and replaced by the Rwanda East African electronic passport after June 27, 2021,” the …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Acholi Paramount Chief Rwot, David Onen Acana II has rebuked his subjects against brokering land deals that aggravate community tension. He was speaking to URN in an interview while responding to the recent upsurge of land wrangles in the region that has resulted …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Bank of Uganda has named commercial banks charged borrowers lowest rates between January and June 2020, effectively making them the cheapest lenders for debtors to run to. Absa bank, Baroda, Bank of India, Citibank, Ecobank, NC Bank, Stanbic Bank, Standard Chartered Bank, United Bank of …