Secretary of State Michael Pompeo has asked African governments to adopt the Trump administration’s limited-government approach for economic success, taking a veiled swipe at the Chinese model of debt-heavy infrastructure projects that have permeated the continent. Pompeo lambasted centralized planning and heavy government spending, decrying the “failed socialist experiments of
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Former Buganda Kingdom Attorney General and Deputy Katikkiro, Nelson Apollo Makubuya (pictured) has been dragged to the High Court for allegedly stealing land from the former Executive Director of the Kabaka Foundation, Ambassador Matiya Lubega. Ambassador Lubega is the pioneer Executive Director of Kabaka Ronald Mutebi’s charity arm, the Kabaka
Read MoreMembers of Parliament on the Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Committee have asked Government to ensure that the Electoral Commission comes up with statutory measures that will enable youth who will have clocked 18years by polling day get registered to vote. The call was made during a meeting held today at
Read MoreThe Minister of Gender, Labour and Social Development, Frank Tumwebaze has met with labour recruiting and exporting agencies under their umbrella body Uganda Association of External Recruitment Agency (UAERA) in a move aimed at improving the regulatory framework for externalisation of labour and ensure safety of Ugandan workers abroad. The
Read MoreUganda's labour minister has repatriated two women who were working as maids in Saudi Arabia and Jordan. The minister, Frank Tumwebaze, said the women had made "distressed calls" to their families back home in Uganda, who in turn appealed to Mr Tumwebaze for help. Mr Tumwebaze said the Ugandan government
Read MoreBy Denis Jjuuko The locusts may have dominated the news for the last week relegating some more important news to the inside pages of our newspapers and none at all on social media, major platforms through which information is shared and consumed in Uganda today! The memes on social media
Read MoreMuseveni Woos African-Americans To Invest In Burgeoning Real Estate Sector
President Yoweri Museveni has called on African- American investors to take interest in Uganda’s blossoming real estate sector especially in areas around industrial parks spread across the country. This, he says, will on the housing deficit the East Africa country faces. Museveni made the remarks while meeting a delegation of
Read MoreOn Friday, February 14th 2020, a meeting that was called in preparation for the Democratic Party’s delegates conference ended in a fist fight between some youths who are divided along political bigwigs within the party. The battle lines within the DP have been drawn on several fronts: namely, those who
Read MoreDr. Barirega Akankwasah (pictured), Ag Commissioner Wildlife Conservation at Ministry of Tourism, Wildlife and Antiquities has been elected Vice President of the Conference of Parties to the Convention on Migratory Species of wild animals (CMS). As Vice President, Akankwasah will deputise the Minister of Environment, Forestry and Climate Change of India.
Read MoreMembers of Parliament (MPs) have lashed out at Cabinet for overlooking Parliament while implementing the controversial new secondary education curriculum yet the August House had recommended its halting. This is after Rosemary Nansubuga Seninde, the Minister of State for Primary Education asked Parliament for an extension to Thursday when the
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