Month: October 2024

The United States has terminated a Shs37bn ($10m) COVID19-related assistance to Uganda after government suspended 'GiveDirectly' NGO activities. "In light of this indefinite suspension, it is now unlikely that the program will meet its original objective, which was to prevent COVID related economic backsliding of the most vulnerable Ugandans. Therefore,

Journalists who want to cover the nominations of presidential candidates on Monday and Tuesday will present COVID-19 negative results to access the venue, according to the Electoral Commission. This was revealed by the commission on Friday ahead of the nominations early next week. "The Electoral Commission is desirous of ensuring

Registrar General, Bemanya Twebaze (2nd L) welcomes Prof. Ephraim Kamuntu, Minister of Justice & Constitutional Affairs and Deputy Attorney General, Hon. Jackson Kafuuzi at the National IP The Uganda Registration Services Bureau (URSB) and the Government of Uganda have today held a high-level Stakeholder Training on National Intellectual Property Policy

Students from Tanzania, Uganda, Nigeria and South Africa have all come out tops in the Huawei Sub-Saharan Africa ICT Competition. Attended by high-ranking government officials, industry leaders and students, the Awards Ceremony was held online on Oct 29, 2020. They all move on to compete in November’s Global Final. The

Sharon Tem, the acting chief executive officer of African Gold Refinery (AGR) Uganda’s aspirations to become an industrialized economy can be hugely boosted through bullion banking, Sharon Tem, the acting chief executive officer of African Gold Refinery (AGR), has said. Speaking at the recent Mineral Wealth Conference organized by the

Deputy Managing Director of UBC, Maurice Mugisha has expressed concern over the growing number of presidential aspirants saying that the station lacks financial capacity to give them equal coverage as directed by the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court in its ruling in 2016 directed that public stations are supposed to

The authorities in Uganda have banned a coalition of more than 60 organisations formed to monitor the country’s 2021 general elections on grounds that it is illegal. Uganda’s National Bureau for Non-governmental Organisations - which regulates the activities of non-profits organisations - said the National Election Watch-Uganda was not registered.

Ugandan journalists who participated in Absa Africa Journalism Masterclass 2020 in a group photo Absa Bank  in conjunction with Rhodes University’s Department of Journalism and Media Studies recently hosted a virtual two-day Absa Data Journalism Masterclass for a group of business  journalists from media houses in the Uganda  including Business

The Innovation Village Team Lead CK Japheth The Innovation Village through its FutureLab hosted its inaugural Corporate Innovation Summit to kickstart open discussions on how best the corporate industry can incorporate an innovation culture with pathways of implementation, integration of latest technologies and the use of disruptive business models in

Sylvia Ntambi, the Equal Opportunity Commission (EOC) chairperson, was on Thursday sent to Kigo Prison over corruption related charges. Ntambi appeared before Anti-Corruption Chief Magistrate Pamella Lamunu-Ocaya after she had skipped Court twice by faking illness and forging medical letters. Ntambi who is battling 29 counts of embezzlement will reappear