Year: 2025

Women stripping leaves from the tree to boil as food Residents in Karamoja sub-region are resorting to eating leaves from wild trees as they burn charcoal for survival as hunger continues to bite their region. The residents say the ongoing drought has worsened the hunger situation forcing them to resort

The Ministry of Gender, Labor and Social Development is stuck with Shillings 15 billion that was recovered from women groups across the country under the Uganda Women Entrepreneurship Program (UWEP). Winfred Matsiko, the UWEP National Coordinator, says that the money is part of the Shillings 34 Billion they have recovered

Deputy Governor, Michael Atingi-Ego. The Bank of Uganda Deputy Governor Michael Atingi-Ego has tasked commercial banks and other financial institutions to sensitize farmers about the availability of the Agricultural Credit Facility–ACF to enable them to access favorable loans. He also wants commercial institutions to prioritize support for green jobs that

Job seekers wait to hand in their documents at County Hall, Nairobi, on May 26, 2017. File | Nation Media Group   The number of Kenyan graduates fruitlessly searching for jobs after leaving school has increased even as many more give up on the job hunt, reflecting a tough economic environment. A

Assistant Commissioner Public and Corporate Affairs, Ibrahim Bbossa Starting March 2023, Withholding Tax (WHT) agents and employers will have to accompany their monthly returns with tax identification numbers (TINs) of persons they are withholding tax from. This is contained in a URA public notice issued on Thursday 23rd February 2023

Vincent Ssempijja The demand for compensation litigation costs in an election petition by the Minister of Defence and Veterans Affairs Vincent Bamulangaki Ssempijja has stirred controversy among leaders in Kalungu district. Early this week, Ssempijja went to Masaka Chief Magistrate’s Court seeking compensation of 94.3 million shillings from Kalungu East

On a red-soiled coffee plantation some 170 miles northeast of Uganda’s capital city of Kampala, a young woman sorts coffee beans headed for a Trader Joe’s in Milwaukee. Endiro Coffee, a collective coffee firm made up of 518 Ugandan women in the mountainous Mbale region of eastern Uganda, just struck

The Sembabule district leadership has tasked the Resident District Commissioner Caleb Tukaikiriza to institute investigations into alleged embezzlement of Emyooga programme funds through ghost enterprise groups. Sembabule received over two billion shillings which was lent out to 73 enterprise groups in the four constituencies under the Presidential Initiative for Wealth