Teenager Allan Okello made a stunning full debut, scoring a hat-trick as League Champions KCCA Football Club brought Arua-Based Onduparaka down to earth at Phillip Omondi Stadium on Saturday. [View the story “KCCA 7 Onduparaka 0” on Storify] KCCA FC have won all their nine league games, scoring a record 26 …
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VIDEO: The NRM electoral commission has warned Hajati Rehema Watongola, the former Member of Parliament for Kamuli municipality not to turn up for the by-elections if she does not meet the academic requirements. The party chairman electoral commission Dr. Tanga Odoi while launching the road map to the party primaries for …
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VIDEO: State house has launched investigations into circumstances under which a sh2.2 billion modern fish handling facility constructed in Serere district was abandoned by the fisher folk operating on Lake Kyoga. The facility is now home to bats and reptiles. Share on: WhatsApp
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VIDEO: Uganda, Kenya and Rwanda have agreed to monitor cargo movement using the Electronic Cargo Tracking System from the port of Mombasa in a move aimed at curbing cargo theft and tax evasion along the northern corridor. Uganda Revenue Authority Commissioner General Doris Akol says the innovation will help the private …
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VIDEO: There was drama after two ministers nearly fought during a fiery Buganda parliamentary Caucus meeting in Kampala. The scuffle started when ICT state minister Aida Nantaba compared Lands State Minister Persis Namugwanya to a Local Council 1 chairperson during debate on stopping the rampant land evictions witnessed in Buganda kingdom. …
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President Yoweri Museveni is in Dar es Salaam to inspect improvements on Tanzania’s main port so that it can be used as an option for Uganda’s exports and imports. According to Augustine Mahiga, the Tanzania Minister for Foreign Affairs, Museveni’s visit to the Dar es Salaam port was to encourage Ugandan businessmen to …
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Uganda is exporting and importing less from the UK, but their respective ministers in charge of trade are optimistic this can be changed for the benefit of both nations. Although the UK has a strong bilateral relationship and a significant development partnership with Uganda, trade between the two has slowed …
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Uganda Electricity Generation Company Limited (UEGCL) has struck a partnership with a Norwegian company W. Giertsen that will boost cooperation in the area of developing renewable energy projects. Officials of W.Giertsen Energy Solutions were in Kampala recently to conclude a Memorandum of Understating (MOU), whose main objective is to outline how UEGCL will cooperate with the …
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The Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) has today launched three customs trade facilitation programmes that will improve the ease of doing business in Uganda and the East African Community, and also promote trade and Investment. The trade facilitation programmes funded by Trade Mark East Africa (TMEA) will be used to monitor transit …
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India’s Vice-President Mohammed Hamid Ansari has announced his country’s offer of $3 million to boost the health sector. India has also agreed to share its experience and expertise in the IT sector. According to a statement at the end of Ansari’s 3-day visit, India has offered Uganda medicines worth $2 million and …
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