The Ugandan Government through the Deputy Attorney General, Mwesigwa Rukutana has asked couples in marriages conducted by Bugolobi based Anglican Church of Resurrection to conduct fresh marriages because the Church wasn’t licensed/ gazetted. During today’s plenary sitting, Rukutana said there is no remedy that couples wedded by sham Churches can
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Uganda's President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni on Wednesday addressed the #TICAD7 conference plenary held under the theme, “Accelerating Economic Transformation and Improving Business Environment through Innovation and Private Sector engagement”. In his address, Museveni advised foreign comapnies in the country to reports to their respective ambassadors cases that involve Ugandan officials
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Prioritizing the digital space will help shift the development focus for Africa’s agribusiness sector and overcome its many hurdles, participants at an official side event, organized Wednesday during the 7th Tokyo International Conference, heard. The seminar headlined “The Digital Africa 2020 and Japanese investment Panel: Creating markets to digitize Africa,
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Aging businessman Chris Tushabe has accused several Bank of Uganda (BoU) officials of frustrating his efforts at having access to his bank accounts details following the closure of defunct Cooperative Bank. Appearing before the Committee of Commissions, Statutory Authorities and State Enterprises (COSASE) today, Tushabe accused t Justine Bagyenda (in
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Ecobank Transnational Incorporated (“ETI”) has announced that IFC and the funds managed by the IFC Asset Management Company (“AMC”) have completed the sale of their c.14.1 percent stake in ETI to Arise B.V. (“Arise”). Accordingly, Arise has become a shareholder of reference in ETI with a c.14.1 percent stake. J.
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The Election Commission (EC) has launched a sensitization exercise aimed at appealing to voters to confirm their names and polling stations in order to have smooth general elections in 2021. It is EC’s mandate to reorganize polling stations and placing voters in the right polling stations in an electoral area.
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Supporters of the controversial Genetic Engineering Regulatory Bill 2018 have suffered another blow after President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni refused to assent it into law for the second time. The bill which was previously known as The National Biotechnology and Bio Safety Bill 2012 was first rejected by the president in
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Uganda’s Security Minister, Gen. Elly Tumwine has admitted the existence of ‘Safe Houses’ that are referred by many as detention torture chambers. He further told off MPs on the Parliamentary Committee on Human Rights that they have no mandate to visit some security places especially the ‘Safe Houses’, saying that
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Japan will offer enhanced trade insurance to boost private sector investment in Africa, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Wednesday as his country competes with rival China for influence in the resource-rich continent. “Let me make a promise,” Abe told the Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD) attended by
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On 28th August 2019, at a press conference held at the Provincial Secretariat, Namirembe, the Rt. Rev. Edison Irigei, Dean of the Church of Uganda, announced that the Rt. Rev. Dr. Stephen Samuel Kaziimba was elected the 9th Archbishop of the Church of Uganda. The election was held during a
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