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KCCA engages enforcement team to better operations

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The acting Deputy Executive Director of Kampala Capital City Authority-KCCA Sam Sserunkuma has called upon the authority’s law enforcement team to avoid destroying people’s merchandise during their operations. Sserunkuma says the job of the team is not to destroy merchandise but to maintain order …

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Market operators protest against street vendors in Jinja

Jinja, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  Traders from Jinja Central Market are demonstrating against the presence of street vendors outside the market.  The traders say that they no longer receive clients as customers prefer to purchase items outside the market. They also accuse Jinja city authorities of failing to block operations …

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More than half of small businesses may close -KACITA

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Kampala City Traders Association (KACITA) has expressed fear that as many as 54% of the small scale businesses that operated in Kampala and surrounding areas may close due to the impact caused by the coronavirus pandemic. Hope Katwiine, the vice-chairperson of KACITA, an umbrella …

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Police thwarts traders attempts to reopen arcades in Kampala

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  Police have fired teargas and live bullets to disperse hundreds of traders in downtown Kampala who had reopened shops this morning, despite their continued closure by the government.   Arcades have remained closed since March 2020, when the government first announced a lockdown to contain the …

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KACITA mobilises arcade operators to reopen

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Kampala City Traders Association-KACITA has mobilized traders in arcades to reopen their shops on Tuesday in protest against continued closure by government. “All traders operating your business in arcades come and open your shops tomorrow on 14th July 2020 as we follow directives of …

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Stella Nyanzi arrested for inciting traders to demonstrate in Kampala

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The police in Kampala is holding Makerere University Researcher, Dr Stella Nyanzi over staging an illegal demonstration. Nyanzi was picked near Nakasero market where together with two others had gone to mobilize arcade traders to protest the continued lockdown on their businesses. Nyanzi, who …

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Traders seek more funding to recover from lockdown effects

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Kampala based traders have asked the government to make more money accessible to small scale traders through the Uganda Microfinance support centre. Issa Ssekitto, the spokesperson of Kampala City Traders Association-KACITA, an umbrella for the business community, says that businesses need a stimulus to …

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No money to pay South Sudan traders-Kasaija

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  The Minister for Finance Matia Kasaija has told Parliament that the government does not have money to pay Ugandan traders who supplied goods to South Sudan.  In 2019, Parliament approved 900 Billion shillings for traders that supplied goods and services to the South Sudan government …

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Traders plead for reopening as ministers inspect Kampala arcades

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  Traders operating from arcades across Kampala have pleaded for reopening of the buildings to allow them to resume operations after more than three months of inactivity.  The arcades remained closed even when the government eased lockdown restrictions opening malls and other shops. But according to …

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Traders pay bribes to operate as arcades remain closed

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  Several city traders are paying hefty bribes to law enforcement officers to allow them to operate, URN has learnt. This follows the president’s decision to maintain the suspension on arcades as part of the Covid19 preventive measures. The suspension has prompted traders to devise other …

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