Nadia Cannata, Head of Section for Sustainable Development, Delegation of the European Union to Uganda during the launch The European Union under the European Union Emergency Trust Fund for Africa has today awarded three organisations grants totaling to 4.6 billion shillings to skill refugees and host communities in West Nile &
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On November 21st 2022 Equity Bank Uganda Limited announced that it had appointed Mr. Anthony Kituuka (pictured) as its new Managing Director, pending approval by the Central Bank. Before his appointment, Kituuka, 47 was the bank’s Executive Director, since April 2016. Here are a few more facts that you probably didn’t
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Winners pose with the invited guests at the Top 100 Gala Dinner State Minister of Finance for Investment and Privatization, Hon. Anite Evelyn urged Small and Medium Sized Enterprises to explore regional and international markets to grow during the Top 100 gala dinner at Hotel Africa on 1st December 2022. She made
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Part of new Kabale Central Market Chong Chuing International Construction (CICO), a Chinese based company contracted to upgrade Kabale central market has finally handover the project to the government. The 23 billion shillings facility was constructed under the World Bank-funded Markets and Agricultural Trade Improvement program – MATIP
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Uganda Coffee Development Authority (UCDA) staff drinking coffee/File photo In the world of entrepreneurship, some dream and hope their ideas become reality whilst others seize any available opportunity to make their dreams come true. In the end, what these people want is to have something they can proudly call “MyOwnBusiness”.
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Speaker Anita Among (pictured) has tasked the Ministry of Justice and Constitutional Affairs to explain the absence of sign language interpreters in courts of law, saying the continued absence of such services is detrimental to the access of justice by people with hearing impairments. The Speaker’s directive followed a concern raised by
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AstraZeneca has announced a planned expansion of its access to healthcare programme, Healthy Heart Africa (HHA), to 10 new countries, starting in 2023. The programme, which is currently present in nine countries, is designed to contribute to the prevention and control of hypertension and decrease the burden of cardiovascular diseases
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Members of Parliament have demanded from the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Development a comprehensive statement on persistent power outages currently being experienced nationwide. Rising on a matter of national importance during plenary sitting on Thursday, legislators demanded to know how technically possible it is for the whole country to
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Finance PS, Ramathan Ggoobi The Secretary to Treasury, Ramathan Ggoobi has told MPs that the Ministry of Finance is in the process of streamlining tax incentives to ensure their effective implementation. Ggoobi was on Thursday appearing before Parliament’s Finance Committee together with the Minister of State for Planning, Amos Lugoloobi
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Re-appointed: Patrick Ayota The Board of the National Social Security Fund (NSSF) has re-appointed Patrick Ayota as the Deputy Managing Director of the Fund. Ayota's contract had expired some time in October. However, the new five-year appointment took effect yesterday. A letter signed by Patrick Ocailap on behalf of the
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