East Africa Pamoja Wins Bid Cairo, Egypt | THE INDEPENDENT | The East Africa Pamoja consortium, comprising Uganda, Kenya, and Tanzania, has been awarded the privilege of hosting the 2027 Africa Cup of Nations. Patrice Motsepe, the president of the Confederation of African Football (CAF) made the announcement following a CAF …
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✳ Year – Interest 2012 ✅10.00% 2013 ✅11.23% 2014 ✅11.50% 2015 ✅13.00% 2016 ✅12.30% 2017 ✅11.23% 2018 ✅ 15% 2019 ✅ 11% 2020 ✅ 10.75% 2021 ✅ 12.15% 2022 ✅ 09.65% 2023 ✅ 10.00% URBRA warns of low coverage in the retirement benefits sector and calls for effective policy responses to …
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The USPA-Nile Breweries Sports Personality of the year 2022 is athlete Kiplimo Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Long distance ace Jacob Kiplimo was on Saturday night named the USPA-Nile Special Uganda Sports Personality of the Year 2022. Kiplimo was recognised – for his very first Uganda Sports Personality of the …
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What it means for Amuriat/Nandala, Lukwago/Ssemujju COVER STORY | JOSEPH WERE | “We are in charge,” proclaimed Patrick Oboi Amuriat; the embattled leader of the opposition Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) party, minutes after his nomination on Sept. 21 to recapture his position as president in a new arrangement sparked by …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda Cranes attacking midfilder Allan Okello has joined Uganda Premier League champions Vipers SC on a three-year contract. According to Vipers SC, he is joining as a free agent having parted ways with Algerian side Paradou AC. The left footed gem had joined Paradou …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The National Social Security Fund (NSSF) is on track to achieve all its 2015-2025 strategic objectives by 2025, and even earlier in some instances, their new Managing Director Patrick Ayota has stated. He has also promised that the Fund will yet again pay a competitive interest …
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African force hands over Bio Cadale FOB to Somali National Army Bio Cadale, Somalia | THE INDEPENDENT | – The African Union Transition Mission in Somalia (ATMIS) on Sunday kicked off the second phase of troop drawdown from Somalia with the handing over of Bio Cadale Forward Operating Base (FOB) in the HirShabelle State. …
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Currently, the government allocates Shillings 17,000 Ugandan per learner at the primary level and Shillings 56,000 per student enrolled under the USE program. Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | As schools open up their gates to welcome learners for the final and promotional term of this academic year, the government …
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Why Uganda can’t live without clothes of `dead people’ COVER STORY | THE INDEPENDENT | On Sept.10 President Yoweri Museveni revealed that some American cloth manufacturing companies have cancelled orders of textiles from Uganda because of the Anti-Homosexual Act (AHA) he signed into law in late May. “The homosexuals in the …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development has launched the 2024/2025 national budget process, with the aim of growing the economy by at least 6 percent during the year and 7 percent in the medium term. The Theme for the next budget remains …
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