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Lango, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |   The National Agricultural Research Organization- NARO with support from the European Union has launched a 25 Billion Shillings project to address poverty and malnutrition under the Development Initiative for Northern Uganda -DINU.     The Chase Hunger and Poverty project will focus on promoting production for …

  Kampala, Uganda |THE INDEPENDENT | The Tax Appeals Tribunal has given the Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) a go-ahead to ban the warehousing of sugar and rice. The Tribunal has further ordered the Commissioner Customs URA to gazette the import of all rice without any restrictions, and to grant adequate notice …

Nwoya, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |   Transport has been paralyzed along major roads in Nwoya and Omoro Districts following heavy rains.  Several trucks transporting perishable goods to markets in Gulu, Amuru, West Nile and South Sudan are stuck in Lii, Alero and Kochgoma Sub-Counties in Nwoya District. Other community access …

Arua, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | There was chaos on Thursday at the two taxi parks of Lobidra and Abattoir in Arua Central Division after law enforcement officers and police stopped a tenderer from collecting revenue.  Taxi touts and vendors abandoned their business as security personnel enforced a directive issued by …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda’s banking sector is appealing to the global lending community to come to the rescue of Uganda’s economy where the local lenders are finding it hard to reach in the quest to revive the economy.  The commercial banks admit that some sectors of the economy …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | Entebbe Deputy Resident District Commissioner Njuki Mbabali says that incoming and outgoing passengers will be exempted from night curfew restrictions if their flights fall within the curfew hours. Uganda maintains a nighttime curfew running from 9 pm to 5:30 a. m, as one of the …

Kakumiro, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | Armed Thugs have robbed 16 million  Shillings from a businesswoman in Kuhuna Trading Centre in  Kakumiro district. It is alleged that six thugs, armed with a gun, last night raided a shop owned by one Margret Basemera, 49, and held her at gunpoint before ordering …

Kitgum, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | Kitgum Municipal Council is expected to receive an additional 1 billion Shillings from the government to boost infrastructural works under Uganda Support to Municipal Infrastructural Development [USMID] programme. This comes after Kitgum was ranked the best among 21 other municipalities on the performance measures under …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  Entebbe International Airport will receive 12 commercial passenger flights today, October 1, 2020, the first day of reopening the airport, after a six months lull. The incoming flights include Turkish, RwandAir, Ethiopian Airlines, Emirates, Tarco Air and FlyDubai, among others.  The airport was partially closed …

Amolatar, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  Fishermen in Kampala landing site, Amolatar District are counting loses despite the resumption of fishing on Lake Kyoga.  Last month, fishing resumed on Lake Kyoga after the ban which was imposed by the government to enable the upgrade of fishing gears and materials like boats …