Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The proposed Anti-Counterfeit Goods and Services Bill 2023 will comprehensively address the challenge of trade in counterfeit goods and services, according to the Bugiri Municipality MP Asuman Basalirwa. According to him, the need for the Anti-Counterfeit Goods and Services law emanated from the fact …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Insurance companies in Uganda paid out over 820.1 billion shillings to various customers in claims in 2023. The Insurance Regulatory Authority of Uganda (IRA) said the payments amounted to more than half (51.17 percent) of the total amount of money that the insurance policy …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | dfcu Bank recently marked its 60th anniversary at a grand gala, celebrating six decades of operation and impactful service towards fulfilling its purpose of ‘Transforming Lives and Businesses’. The Diamond anniversary event, hosted at Mestil Hotel, Kampala, brought together distinguished guests, including government officials, …

Arua, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Equity Banks’s Enterprise Development and Financial Inclusion program has held the hand of  2191 women as they started their journey in business growth last year. The join up to 100,000 women and youth who have graducated, expanded their business and diversified and improved their personal …

Stuttgart, Germany | THE INDEPENDENT | Mikel Merino’s extra-time header earned Spain a place in the EURO 2024 semi-finals at the expense of hosts Germany. Billed by many as a meeting of the competition’s two strongest sides, the tournament’s first quarter-final started at a ferocious pace. Pedri stung Manuel Neuer’s …

Entebbe, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Museveni has again created another unit to fight corruption, this time in the Uganda Revenue Authority-URA. In a short statement released by the Presidential Press Unit, the unit is going to be under the State House. “The Presidential Press Unit wishes to …

Hoima, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  The World Conservation Society (WCS) is tracking elephants in the Murchison Falls Park to find out if reports about a surge in elephant crop raids in areas neighboring them are true. The African Institute For Energy Governance (AFEIGO) has written to the President of Uganda, claiming …

Uganda Cranes AFCON Qualifying Group Fair-Coach Paul Put Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda Cranes Head Coach Joseph Paul Put believes that the team’s Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) qualifying group is fair but warns against underestimating their opponents. The draws, conducted on Thursday in Johannesburg, South Africa, placed …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The recent reconsideration of the 2024 appropriation bill has resulted in funding gaps for the Uganda National Examinations Board (UNEB), leaving many crucial activities related to national examinations unfunded. During the budget process, the Parliamentary Education Committee discovered that the examination body had significant …

🔴 47 State corporations dissolved 🔴 Planned CAS positions suspended 🔴 State advisors to be cut by 50% 🔴 No budget line for offices of First Lady 🔴 Budget for renovations cut by 50% 🔴 Retirement age of 60 to be implemented 🔴 No new government cars 🔴 No harambees …