A digital overhaul of Africa’s tax system is needed to boost revenue collection, regional coordination and financing, Adam Elhiraika, Director of Macroeconomic Policy at the Economic Commission for Africa says in conversation with Shoshana Kedem during the recently Conference of African Ministers of Finance, Planning and Economic Development in Marrakech, …
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Remembering the Moshi Spirit of the 1979 liberation war Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | This week marked 40 years since a combined force of armed groups of Ugandan exiles under the Uganda National Liberation Front/Army (UNLF/A) and the Tanzania Peoples Defence Forces (TPDF) toppled the government of then-president of …
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A team from Fenix International, held a discussion with President Museveni at State House Nakasero. Fenix International, is a next-generation energy company and subsidiary of ENGIE which operates in 5 countries across Africa. Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Fenix relocated global headquarters from San Francisco, U.S. to Kampala in …
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Traders in Uganda were excited by the offer of land from President Uhuru Kenyatta to Uganda to build a dry port for its cargo in Naivasha, Kenya. Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Kenyatta made the pledge during a three day state visit hosted for his Ugandan counterpart Yoweri Museveni …
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The family of the late Ronald Ssebulime has cried out for police protection citing fear of unknown people who roam around their house in Kayunga at night. Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Sisters and other relatives of Ssebulime told journalists who visited their home on March 31 that these …
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A State House Anti-Corruption Unit launched in December last year has continued to instill panic among public officials who swindle government money. Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | URA officials, town clerks, district administrators and others have all fallen prey. In the last week, the unit made a string of …
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Madhvani Foundation offers Shs700m for University students Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | In the quest for Uganda to empower its youth through education, the Muljibhai Madhvani Foundation has announced a scholarship fund of Shs700 million that will be used to support brilliant but underprivileged university students in Uganda. Speaking …
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London, United Kingdom | AFP | Britain has begun issuing passports with the words “European Union” removed from the front cover — despite Brexit being delayed and its political leaders deadlocked over how to extricate the country from the bloc. The interior ministry said Saturday that a longstanding decision to start introducing passports without reference …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A former member of the Amuka militia group has said that government soldiers mistakenly attacked and killed civilians and burned their homes in the Abok internally displaced people’s (IDP) camp. The militia fought alongside the Uganda People’s Defence Force-UPDF during the LRA insurgency. Witness D-121 …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Supreme Court judge, Justice Prof. Lillian Tibatemwa Ekirikubinza has asked the management of Kyambogo University to address concerns of sexual harassment in the university. Presiding over the belated and first International Women’s Day commemoration, at Kyambogo University on Friday, lady Tibatemwa said investing in women …
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The Independent Uganda: You get the Truth we Pay the Price
