Tag Archives: Uganda

From January to May, the police recorded 325 cases related to abortion yet last year 1800 cases were recorded. In 2014, 1600 cases were recorded. These statistics were revealed by Police Spokesperson Fred Enanga during the launch of a report dubbed, ‘Facing Uganda’s Law on Abortion’ in Kampala on July …

COVER STORY: Why the bail-out group will get money In spite of the public furor against the proposed financial bail-out to distressed companies, the companies will eventually get the financial relief because the tycoons have been courting Gen. Salim Saleh, Museveni’s younger brother, who has been influential in running government …

The human figure continues to fascinate modern and contemporary artists. Many are gripped by its deployment as an aesthetic or conceptual symbol that evokes different forms of visual narratives in their work, writes Dominic Muwanguzi. For Khalid Kodi it is an important topic that warrants a standalone exhibition that he …

VIDEO: Police Chief General Kale Kayihura is in Algiers, the Capital of Algeria on a mission to assess the progress on the implementation of the proposed African Police (Afripol) – an offshoot of the International Police. Afripol was proposed in Cartagena, Colombia in 2014 and was approved by the African …

The Ministry of Health will spend $9m in an Indoor Residual Spraying (IRS) exercise to fight and manage a malaria epidemic in Northern Uganda. Indoor spraying will be carried out in 10 epidemic districts this September. The districts were selected based on the malaria burden, giving priority to those with …

Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) collected sh11.23 trillion, 400 billion less than targeted for the fiscal year 2015/16. Despite the shortfall on the target, the tax figures represented a growth of 15.60% (sh1.5 trillion) from the previous year’s figure of sh9.7 trillion collected in revenue.  URA has now been taxed to …

President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has said companies that sold goods to the government of South Sudan and have not been paid will be considered for a bailout. Museveni told Uganda’s Political Leadership Retreat at the National Leadership Institute (NALI), Kyankwanzi that these companies require government intervention because they are exporting …

How limited exposure limits producers of culture When artist Maria Kizito of the Makerere art school returned to Uganda in 2005 from Ireland with a PhD in studio practice, he sought to overturn the prevailing mundane formal techniques of art expressions that he found boring, untenable and simply antiquated. But …

NBS: President Yoweri Museveni has finally broken the silence on the much talked about financial bailout of struggling companies insisting consideration will be given to companies that lost money in business transactions with the government of South Sudan. The president also revealed that companies that supplied government departments and have …

Deputy Governor of Bank of Uganda Louis Kasekende answered questions from The Independent’s Ian Katusiime about the bank’s upcoming golden jubilee anniversary and other economic issues.   Bank of Uganda (BoU) is marking 50 years. Looking back, what does this mean for BoU? This anniversary gives the Bank of Uganda …