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With Betty Kamya the new minister in charge of Kampala,  Dr. Jane Aceng at health and Betty Amongi in charge of Lands, Housing and Urban Development, the new list of ministers released by President Yoweri Museveni has more women than in the last cabinet. There are 28 out of 80 …

March 2015: What did the last cabinet reshuffle bring 1. H.E. the Vice President – KIWANUKA EDWARD SSEKANDI 2. Rt. Hon. Prime Minister – RUHAKANA RUGUNDA 3. 1st Deputy Prime Minister & Minister of Public Service – – KAJURA HENRY MUGANWA 4. 2nd Deputy Prime Minister & Deputy Leader of …

Kampala Lord Mayor elect Erias Lukwago and Division Councillors have Monday been sworn in at Kampala Capital City Authority. Minister for Security Mary Okurut handed Lukwago the instruments of power. Lukwago, whose exploits have mostly put him on collision course with the Central Government, was controversially thrown out of office during …

On May 26, Brian Gouldie, the chief executive officer of MTN Uganda appeared sharp in a navy blue suit, light blue shirt and yellow dotted tie as he presided over the announcement of the company’s new syndicated loan at the MTN Towers in Kampala. He couldn’t have been sharper for …

Qualifiers for 2017 Africa Cup of Nations in Gabon after penultimate round of group matches this weekend: Guinea-Bissau (Group E winners) Morocco (Group F winners) Egypt (Group G winners) Ghana (Group H winners) Algeria (Group J winners) Senegal (Group K winners) Zimbabwe (Group L winners) Cameroon (Group M winners) **Mali  …

Kinshasa, DR Congo | AFP | At the sound of Muhammad Ali’s name Martino Kavuala, now a 63-year-old estate agent in Kinshasa, seems to light up as he recalls the “Rumble in the Jungle” back in 1974 which “held us spellbound”. Ali, who died on Friday aged 74, held the …

Khartoum, Sudan | AFP | South Sudan resumed talks with Sudan on Sunday on a raft of thorny issues, including borders and oil revenues, still outstanding from its 2011 secession. The south’s foreign affairs, defence, interior and oil ministers travelled to Khartoum for the talks, the first since a unity …

President Yoweri Museveni has told German investors at the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce that today’s Uganda offers them a ready market with high profitability ratios un-paralleled anywhere in the world. He described Uganda as a land of abundant opportunities but which is still lacking in capital and the spectrum of …

2017 AFCON Qualifier Saturday Botswana vs Uganda  5pm (LIVE SS4) Francistown Sports Complex Standings P W D L F A Pts B. Faso        4   2   1  1  3  1   7 Uganda       4   2   1  1  3  1   7 Botswana   4   2   0  2  3  4   6 Comoros    4   1    …

President Yoweri Museveni is in Berlin where he delivered a key-note address at the German-African Business Day Forum. “I am here to show you that Uganda is the right place to go as far as investments are concerned and that, it is the right time to go,” he told the …