Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Gender, Labour and Social Development Ministry is stuck with thousands of women groups seeking funding under the Uganda Women Entrepreneurship Program- UWEP. The program, in its third year of implementation continues to suffer consistent decline in budgetary allocations from Ministry of Finance, Planning and …

70 years after the Universal Declaration, the European Union has chosen seven priority areas to support COMMENT | ATTILIO PACIFICI | Seventy years ago, when global leaders came together to agree on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the world was just beginning its slow and painful recovery from a devastating …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Local leaders in Luweero district are worried of a likely drop in local revenue collection after sand and stones were declared minerals by Ministry of Energy and Mineral Development. Government approved a new mining policy, placing sand, murram, granites and stones under the mineral sector. …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Ugandan manufacturers want Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) to explain what the DTS would achieve if a manufacturing sub-sector has no counterfeits. They want URA to show if the DTS will increase revenue collection and compliance considering that the formal manufacturers are already compliant, and show …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Suspected Congolese militiamen have attacked Ugandan fishermen and robbed them of their boat engines and fishing gear in Hoima District. The militiamen struck around midnight on Tuesday near Fofo, Nana and Rwentali landing sites in Tonya parish in Buseruka Sub County. They robbed eight boat …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Vipers SC will face an up-hill task when they battle Algeria’s SC Constantine in the first round of the CAF Champions League at the Stade Mohamed Hamlaoui on Friday. The team without suspended skipper Taddeo Lwanga and Geoffrey Wasswa traveled this afternoon on an Emirates …

Abidjan, Ivory Coast | AFP | Ivory Coast defender Serge Aurier on Monday slammed the “stupid” decision of CAF to strip his country of the right to host the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations. The Confederation of African Football (CAF) finally announced their long-anticipated decision to take the 2019 finals …

Abidjan, Ivory Coast | AFP | Mining companies have invested at least $5 billion towards gold exploration in West Africa in the last decade but significant reserves are under-exploited, mineral industry experts said on Tuesday. Delegates at the Ecomof mining and petroleum forum in the Ivory Coast commercial capital Abidjan …

His administration’s foreign policy record compares favourably with that of any other modern U.S. president COMMENT | RICHARD N. HAAS | I have worked for four U.S. presidents, Democrats and Republicans alike, and perhaps the most important thing I have learned along the way is that little of what we call …

Kampala, Uganda | DOMINIC MUWANGUZI | Musinguzi Gilbert – A youthful budding artist who graduated from Kyambogo University in 2014, invited unprecedented attention to his work at the Kampala Art Biennale 2018 with his colossal ephemeral  artwork `Invasion’ that interrogates  the subject of migration to new territory and its obvious impact to …