Under the spotlight: the law and big money Kampala, Uganda | HAGGAI MATSIKO | After ending its public hearings into Bank of Uganda’s closure of seven commercial banks, attention is shifting to the recommendations the Parliamentary Committee on Commissions, Statutory Authorities, and State Enterprises (COSASE), is set to make. It …
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Kagame replaced by Egypt’s Abdel Fattah as AU heads of state meet in Addis President Yoweri Museveni arrived in Ethiopia’s capital of Addis Ababa on Feb.09 where African Union (AU) heads of State convened for a two day summit that saw Rwandan President Paul Kagame handle over the mantle to …
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Kadaga wants Executive to respect Parliament’s independence | Kampala, Uganda | The Independent | At a meeting in Geneva Switzerland, Speaker Rebecca Kadaga has stressed the need for the Executive to respect the independence of Parliament, saying it is an inevitable balance required in strengthening democratic governance. Kadaga said issues …
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South Sudanese refugees return home | Kampala, Uganda | The Independent | On Feb. 06, Joel Boutroue, representative of United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) in Uganda said that over 20,000 refugees from South Sudan have returned home as efforts to restore peace in the war tone country continues. …
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Kampala City Council Authority (KCCA) has passed an ordinance to harmonize the management of markets in Kampala. | Kampala, Uganda | The Independent | The bill that among others seeks to provide a comprehensive licensing regime for permanent, semi permanent and temporary markets, harmonise market dues and provide a process …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | More than 2000 officers of the Uganda People Defense Forces (UPDF) have been promoted to various ranks, a move that saw President Museveni’s son Muhoozi Kainerugaba move to lieutenant General. Muhoozi who was last promoted to the rank of Major General in 2016 according …
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No one deserves to die from excessive peer pressure because of failure to re-pay a micro-credit loan COMMENT | Nathan Were |The Daily Monitor newspaper of February 02, 2019 led with a sad story of Gubindi – a resident of Jinja town in eastern Uganda who, after failure to …
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`In this country, you are judged basing on whether you are pro or anti-government’ Kampala, Uganda | AGNES E NANTABA | Pastor Martin Ssempa is a familiar name in circles of activists and Makerere University Kampala. For over 20 years, he has run a congregation of mainly Makerere University students …
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MOTORING: High-tech ESF safety concept car coming mid2019 to showcase life-saving safety tec | The Independent |The idea of zero road deaths sounds like a pipe dream. But Mercedes Benz says an uncrashable car is possible. That’s the opinion Mercedes Benz global R&D chief, Ola Kalennius, who is excited about …
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In Paris this month, developing countries must understand what is at stake and speak up COMMENT | José Antonio Ocampo | Project Syndicate | At first glance, it appears to be a bureaucratic meeting like any other. But the discussions at the OECD in Paris at the end of this …
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