The government of Iran has revealed plans to start manufacturing tractors in Uganda. The Iranian Ambassador to Uganda, H.E Seyed Morteza Mortazavi, told the Speaker of Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga, that a team of Iranian manufacturers had visited different stakeholders in Uganda earlier this year, and was moved by the potential
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The Chief Magistrates Court in Makindye issued its final orders allowing Kampala Metropolitan Traffic commander, Norman Musinga to divorce his estranged wife, Esther Kyinkuhaire citing witchcraft as the core reason for the dissolution. Court also allowed SSP Musinga custody of the three children from the nine year marriage that had
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The founder of Uganda Aviation Academy, Captain Mike Mukula has urged East African member states to consider starting a regional airline instead of splitting the market with numerous airlines. “Uganda is a landlocked country. We must interconnect Uganda to rest of the world market and this can only be done
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Over three million people in Tanzania and Kenya will benefit from a €345 million (UShs1.4 trillion) financing package for road construction support, approved by the African Development Bank’s board in Abidjan on Thursday. The Bank’s support for the Mombasa-Lunga Lunga/Horohoro and Tanga-Pangani-Bagamoyo roads Phase I, is in the form of
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A top Chinese owned Supermarket, Shopping Union has joined the Ugandan market and opened shop at the magnificent Kingdom Kampala Mall. This is the second anchor client for Kingdom Kampala Mall owned by property mogul Sudhir Ruparelia after Sekanyolya Systems opened shop at the mall barely a month ago. Shopping
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The wife of Sudan's ousted President Omar al-Bashir, Widad Babiker (Left in featured photo), has been summoned for questioning over possession of land and bank accounts, Arabic-language website Baj News reports. Mrs Babiker who has been under house arrest since the ousting of her husband on 11 April was taken
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A lot of things happen in boardrooms; key decisions are made and deals sealed. Some of the decisions backfire and in the process, some Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) and Managers are sacked. Over the last 12 months, a number of CEOs have overcome huge challenges to register a successful year
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Farmers in Kanjuiri, Nyandarua (Kenya), are pouring out milk because of poor prices and lack of market as roads remain impassable due to heavy rains, Daily Nation reports. A number of farmers who spoke to the Nation said they were considering abandoning dairy farming because milk was no longer profitable.
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Retired Kenyan athlete Wilfred Bungei (in featured photo above) has told the BBC about his struggle with alchoholism. Bungei, who was the 800m gold medallist at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, said he had to check into a rehabilitation centre for six weeks after retiring. "For me I knew, when I
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Parliament has adopted a motion urging government to spread out scholarships under the district quota policy to lower institutions of learning, as a means of increasing access to education. Under the quota system, government awards scholarships to only 11 students from districts that fail to send students to universities on
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