The East African nation shipped 6.49million bags of coffee worth US$629.8million Kampala, Uganda | ISAAC KHISA | Coronavirus pandemic restrictions in Vietnam coupled with bad weather in Brazil have helped Uganda record a 23% growth in coffee export earnings for the 2020/21 coffee season (October-September) to US$629.8million. Latest data from …
Read More »POLICE: It was a suicide bomber
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda’s joint security agencies have described the Monday afternoon explosion inside Swift Bus as a suicide mission conducted by Isaac Matovu, the only person who died in the incident. The suspected suicide bomber Matovu, a 23 year old from Kireka has been on Police’s …
Read More »Uganda’s multi-pronged approach to revive economy
Outlook remains overcast by a mutating virus | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda’s economy has been struggling for some time now since the outbreak of coronavirus but the government and the private sector are coming up with numerous options to reverse the trend. On Oct. 20, the government released Sh 5.8trillion …
Read More »Sex, hope and activism
Meet ‘Uganda’s rudest woman’ | THE INDEPENDENT | Her sexually explicit protests have been likened to pornography, but Ugandan activist and writer Stella Nyanzi says sex is the most effective – and entertaining – way to shake people out of their apathy. “I learnt very early that there are some …
Read More »Orthodox Pope concludes Uganda tour
Praises Uganda as mother of Orthodox mission in Africa Kampala, Uganda | RONALD MUSOKE | His Beatitude Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, Theodoros II, concluded his tour of Uganda on Oct.18 following a week-long stay in the country. The pope who was in Uganda for the …
Read More »EAC job mess
Kadaga ruffles East African Community Secretariat Kampala, Uganda | RONALD MUSOKE | Rebecca Kadaga, Uganda’s First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for East African Affairs has protested the way the recruitment of staff has been going on at the East African Community Secretariat. Following the 42nd Extraordinary Meeting of …
Read More »What is Africa’s problem?
Revisiting Museveni’s ideas about Uganda and our wider continent after his 35 years (and counting) in power THE LAST WORD | ANDREW M. MWENDA | And so it was that recently, while perusing my library, I decided to reread President Yoweri Museveni’s book, What is Africa’s Problem. It is …
Read More »Bail fight exposes Museveni frustration
Why torture, harassment of opposition is failed strategy Kampala, Uganda | IAN KATUSIIME | On October 21 unknown attackers using sharp objects slashed the tyres of a car belonging to Kampala Woman MP Shamim Malende of the opposition National Unity Platform (NUP), the bubbling new party pushing for a new …
Read More »58 Congolese held for illegally fishing on Lake Edward
Kasese, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Security is holding 58 Congolese fishermen in Uganda for alleged violation of the borders at Lake Edward. According to Josué Mukura, the Executive Secretary of the Federation of Individual Fishermen of Lake Edward (FECOPEILE) in North Kivu province, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), …
Read More »Uganda to supply milk to Zambia
Mbarara, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda has secured a new market for its milk in Zambia following a long unresolved impasse with Kenya which was the largest market for Uganda’s exports. Since December 2019 when Kenya authorities ceased at least 3000 bags of powdered milk and packets of Lato …
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