The Registrar General (2nd L) Mercy Kainobwisho flanked by Connie Kekihembo (2nd R) the CEO of UWEAL in a group photo with URSB women entrepreneurs after the launch of the Women in Business Club To mark International Women’s Day taking place on Monday 08th March, the Uganda Registration Services Bureau (URSB) has
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US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken/Bloomberg Two United States Senators have written to the Secretary of State Antony Blinken seeking detailed information about US Policy on Uganda.Senators Cory Booker and Jim Risch who are both members of the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations expressed concern about the state of
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President Yoweri Museveni (pictured) has announced that government will release over 51 people arrested during the November 2020 protest and review files of those already taken to court.The president made the revelation today at Kololo Independence grounds after chairing the 3rd Summit of the Inter-Party Organization for Dialogue-IPOD.Museveni says the
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David Wandera, the Absa Bank Uganda Head of Financial Markets Tax rates for investors are generally high, the Absa Africa Financial Markets Index 2020 indicates. The report, which analyses the financial markets in 23 African countries to aid their development and maturity ranked Uganda 15th among countries with a conducive tax
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Leader of Opposition Betty Aol Ocan The Leader of Opposition (LOP) in Parliament, Betty Aol Ocan has demanded that government invests more money in the country’s productive sectors like Agriculture and Tourism in order to solve the unemployment and poverty.Ocan today presented before Parliament the Opposition’s alternative proposals to the coming
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Parliament is considering sitting on weekends to enable the 10th parliament complete business before the the swearing in of the 11th parliament in May this year. The move is aimed at finishing the remaining bills and business which include the Budget Framework paper, ministerial policies, bills as well as approval
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The Head of the State House Anti-Corruption Unit Lt. Col. Edith Nakalema The Anti-Corruption Unit of State House has so far arrested 19 people who have been impersonating staff of the unit and extorting money from members of the Public. According to the head of the unit, Lt. Col. Edith Nakalema,
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It is discriminatory to leave the family of late former Ugandan President family Idi Amin Dada struggling to survive, Ibrahim Ssemunju Nganda (pictured), the opposition chief-Whip, has claimed. His remarks comes at a time when one of Amin's wife Amin Madinah is suffering in hospital and failing to pay medical bills
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Ronald Muyanja, the Head of Trading at Stanbic Bank Uganda Private sector optimism picked up during February ending a two-month sequence of job cuts and leading to an improvement in the Stanbic Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) to 51.2 from 49.8 in January. The index is now above 50.0 signifying a
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The Tanzania drugs authority is investigating a company that has reportedly been collecting urine from pregnant women to make human medicine, local newspaper The Citizen reports. The Tanzania Medicines and Drugs Authority (TMDA) is quoted as saying it does not recognise and has never registered Polai (Tz) Co Ltd - the
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