Uganda’s Ministry of Health failed to spend Shs3.6bn provided for in the 2017/2018 national budget yet it has a huge domestic debt. This is contained in the Auditor General’s 31st December 2018 Audit report. The report indicates that the institution is grappling with domestic arrears amounting to Shs42.59bn. After the
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Egypt will host the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations, the Confederation of African Football (Caf) has announced. Egypt beat South Africa, the only other nation to submit a bid, in a vote held at a Caf executive committee meeting. Original host nation Cameroon was stripped of staging duties in November
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By BBC SPORT Reaching the Asian Cup finals for the first time would be no small achievement for Yemen at the best of times. But doing so as war and famine push the poorest country on the Arabian peninsula into the abyss has made it a minor miracle. This is
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Uganda's Finance Minister, Matia Kasaija, has refuted media reports that the country could lose property if it fails to service the public debt that now stands at a whopping Shs41.Tn. Kasaija made the statements on Tuesday following local media reports that the government is poised to lose property over the
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The outgoing Chairperson of Parliamentary Committee of Commissions, Statutory Authorities and State Enterprises (COSASE), Abdu Katuntu has spoken out publicly for the first time about what has turned out to be the ‘COSASE leadership saga’. This is after Speaker Rebecca Kadaga extended the tenure of Katuntu led Committee by a
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Read MoreMore than a week after voters went to the polls to choose a new President in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), results have yet to be announced and all primary telecommunications remain shut down – prompting a UN expert on Monday to urge the authorities to restore internet services as “a matter of urgency”.
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The Auditor General, John Muwanga (in featured photo) has raised queries on USD479, 030.12 (about Shs1.78bn) expenditure by Uganda People’s Defense Forces (UPDF) to purchase spare parts of Jet Ranger helicopter. UPDF contracted YAMASEC Ltd to purchase the spare parts, but Auditor General’s team deemed the contract as doubtful after
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The recent recruitment byUganda Broadcasting Corporation (UBC) in an effort to revamp the national broadcaster has been questioned by the Auditor General, John Muwanga. According to the just released 2018 audit report by the Office of the Auditor General, UBC never carried the recruitment exercise as per the set procedures,
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Uganda Prisons Service land totaling to 106.692 acres in Luzira is missing from the entity’s asset register, the latest Auditor General’s report has revealed. In his December 2018 report, John Muwanga, the Auditor General says Prisons Service leadership failed to trace records of the land in question. The Prisons management
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