Approximately 87,500 no-pole customers to be connected to the electricity grid Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda government has secured $100milion funding from the African Development Bank to switch-on some of the long-pending new electricity connection applicants under the Umeme electricity distribution footprint. Commissioned in Waibuga Sub County in …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Francis Onebe has been charged for the alleged murder of his wife Immaculate Asio Mary Blessing Onebe. On Tuesday, Onebe and Bonny Oriekot, a private security guard attached to Pentagon Security Company appeared before Chief Magistrate Makindye Sarah Ann Basemera and were remanded to Kitalya …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Museveni has formally written to the Speaker of Parliament returning the National Social Security Fund Bill, 2019 with proposals for amendment. Oulanyah revealed the contents of Museveni’s letter dated 26th August, 2021 during the Tuesday plenary sitting saying that he had received …
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Firms need to go big on innovations, corporate governance and cost management, experts say Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The exit of multinational companies in Uganda including South Africa’s largest grocery retailer Shoprite Holdings exposes the challenges that businesses in the country are grappling with to remain afloat. Several …
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The group wants government to open up on the plan for this cash Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Government needs to open up on the recent allocation of the Shs1.2trillion International Monetary Fund’s Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) and invest in the fight against COVID-19 pandemic to boost economic recovery, …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda has received a consignment of more than 1.6 million doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines thanks to a donation by the United States government. This is the second consignment of COVID-19 vaccines that the Biden administration has sent to Uganda. The first arrived on September …
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World Bank and Knowledge Consulting Ltd hatch $52bn plan | THE INDEPENDENT | Ugandan universities and other post-secondary education institutions could get hooked on the high-speed internet while some students and teachers get free laptops under a proposed plan by the World Bank and Knowledge Consulting Ltd. The ambitious Africa …
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What went wrong after Janet Museveni left? Kampala, Uganda | RONALD MUSOKE | Janet Museveni, the First Lady, who was first appointed Minister of State for Karamoja Affairs in 2009 and two years later became the substantive Minister of the sub-region, had a grand vision: to make Karamoja a self …
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Why Ugandan pundits are mistaken in their understanding of why some foreign firms have quit our market THE LAST WORD | ANDREW M. MWENDA | A couple of multinational firms have pulled out of Uganda in the last one decade. Oil giant Shell sold itself to Vivo, Barclays Bank …
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Revealing the networks of people with power Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | In the April 30-07 issue of The Independent, Andrew Mwenda; in his column, wrote an article entitled “Paved with good intentions: How Western interventions in African affairs, even when well intentioned, produce bad results.” In that article, …
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