Manish Kalla, the General Manager at Tembo Steels (U) Ltd Tembo Steels (U) Ltd (TSUL), one of the most diversified and integrated manufacturers of steel products in Uganda and Africa at large, is revolutionizing the steel industry, thanks to the company’s resilience of innovation. The company has one of the largest product
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By Ali Ssekatawa In 2016, I led a group of young lawyers in a movement we called the “Nakivubo Declaration.” It was a direct encounter to what we termed the “Kampala Club Declaration," a tradition where senior lawyers handpicked successors based on seniority. The Nakivubo Declaration was our first attempt
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Officials from PostBank and MTN Mobile Money in a group photo at the launch of XtraCash PostBank Uganda (PBU) in partnership with MTN Mobile Money (U) Limited (MTN MoMo) have launched Xtracash, a digital Micro Lending solution that is positioned to extend short term facilities to MTN mobile money subscribers. This
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WORLD coffee and sugar prices surged to new highs on Thursday (Sep 26) as investors remained focussed on drought-hit Brazil, the top grower of both commodities, with weather forecasts continuing to indicate dry conditions. Brazil is experiencing one of its worst droughts on record. Farmland fires have broken out in
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Secretary to Treasury, Ramathan Ggoobi The Ministry of Finance has issued the First Budget Call Circular for the 2025/26 national budget, with the total budget standing at Shs57.441Trn, down from the ambitious Shs72.136 Trillion 2024/25 budget. According to the circular issued by Secretary to Treasury, Ramathan Ggoobi, Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) is
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Uganda Civil Aviation Authority (UCAA) in partnership with the Uganda Aeronautical Information Services Officers’ Association (UGAISOA) has planned the 2024 Aviation Run on Sunday, October 20, 2024, at Mayor’s Garden in Entebbe, starting at 6:30 am. According to UCAA, the Aviation Run is one of the events organized by the Authority to
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The Dairy Development Authority (DDA) has revealed an increase in prices of milk in the central and eastern regions of Uganda. According DDA, in August, the Central region experienced an increase of Shs 175 at the farm gate to Shs 1, 275. This is despite the fact that retail prices
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Lawmakers on Parliament’s Agriculture Committee have raised concern over the increased occurrence of aflatoxins in food produced in Uganda, with many admitting to losing residents in their areas to aflatoxins-induced diseases like liver cirrhosis. This followed a presentation made by Agnes Kirabo, Executive Director, Food Rights Alliance, where she called
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Minister Kasaija appealed for more focus on job creation to prevent disastrous results of youth unemployment Members of the National Social Security Fund will be paid an interest rate of 11.5 percent for the year 2023/2024, an increase from the 9.7 that was declared the previous year. This makes the
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Parliament’s Health Committee has raised concern over the discriminatory practices at abattoirs and slaughterhouses that ban the slaughter of pigs on these premises, saying this imposes health risks on pork eaters in Uganda due to the absence of formal places where pigs eaten in Uganda are slaughtered. Samuel Opio, Vice
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