Hon. Godfrey Onzima (R), the Chairperson, Committee on Public Service and Local Government and colleagues at the meeting Members of Parliament on the Budget Committee have queried the Government's preparedness to implement the Parish Development Model (PDM). The MPs think that the apparent strategy to promote increased incomes intended
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Minister Henry Musasizi The Committee on Finance, Planning and Economic Development has thrown out a proposal by the finance ministry that grants government Ministries Departments and Agencies (MDAs) the discretion of setting user fees for services that are considered non-tax revenues. Non-Tax Revenue (NRT) is charged against services
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Agnes Igoye addressing the media. The Ministry of Internal Affairs has identity identified a Ugandan female who was on Sunday captured on camera committing suicide in Dubai. Agnes Igoye, the deputy national coordinator, trafficking in persons department, has confirmed that the person in the video that has since gone viral
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It is with great relief that farmers in Nwoya District have received the rain from the skies and the birds from Murchison Falls National Park which has come to their rescue and saved them from the hunger that the dangerous African Armyworms were about to cause. Nwoya District registered an
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Journalism in Uganda is being undermined by new laws which have in effect closed the right to freedom of expression. As Uganda joins the rest of the world to mark World Press Freedom Day, there is concern that the attack on freedom of expression is affecting other rights including press
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At least 100 people along the proposed route of the East African Crude Oil Pipeline-EACOP in Kyotera district have petitioned parliament protesting the compensation rates offered to them by the project implementers. The project-affected persons in Nabigasa sub county are aggrieved by what they describe as unfair compensation for their
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Sonia Kyoshaba was an active university student of Hotel Management who took a Boda Boda intending to reach her hostel in time to beat an assignment deadline when a reckless driver knocked her and she lost consciousness. When she woke up in hospital, she had lost her limb up to
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Muslims say the coffee agreement should protect the interests of local farmers The Supreme Mufti Sheikh Muhammad Shaban Galabuzi wants a review of the Coffee agreement signed between the Government and and Uganda Vinci Coffee Company Limited reviewed so as to cater interests of local farmers in the same industry.
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President Uhuru Kenyatta (pictured) has warned of further sanctions on oil marketers who have been allocating higher shares of their fuel imports to neighbouring countries leading to outages in the local market. Mr Kenyatta accused the dealers of breaching the traditional fuel allocations where the local market is supposed to
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The RwandAir aircraft that skidded off the runway at Entebbe International Airport The Ministry of Works and Transport is in the final stage of constituting the team to investigate why a RwandAir aircraft skidded off the runway at Entebbe International Airport. The incident happened at 5:31am on April 20, causing
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