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 Tax experts say government needs to refocus its priorities Kampala, Uganda |  JULIUS BUSINGE  | Uganda Revenue Authority has good and bad news these days. The tax body is collecting more and more money but, at the same time, is failing to meet ever rising annual targets. The pattern of missed …

New digital technology to ease community health based insurance payment By Susan Babijja The Rwanda Social Security Board (RSSB) has introduced a new subscribing scheme through which community will pay their annual health insurance. The mobicash scheme is a result of partnership entered between RSSB and Mobicash; a mobile solutions …

By Dicta Asiimwe Former Vice President and now President Museveni’s advisor on microfinance Dr Specioza Wandira Kazibwe is again in the spotlight over abuse of public funds under the government’s Bonna Bagaggawale programme. The money meant for people with disabilities (PWDs) in Busoga under the Bonna Bagaggawale (Prosperity-for-All) has sparked …

By Isaac Mufumba Are they a means to a political rather than social-economic end? For most of the last part of 2009, government was dolling out food to sections of the population in West Nile, eastern and northern Uganda, following a famine that ravaged those areas leaving at least 50 …