URSB Registrar General Mercy K. Kainobwisho addresses the WIPO General Assembly in Geneva The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) General Assembly, at its Sixty-Fourth Series of Meetings of the 193 Member States elected Ms. Mercy K. Kainobwisho, Registrar General Uganda Registration Services Bureau, as Vice-Chair of the General Assembly. Panama’s Alfredo
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Rtn. Julius Muzira (Centre) being installed as the next President of the Rotary Club of Garuga. The Uganda Civil Aviation Authority (UCAA) Director General, Fred Bamwesigye has said rotary has the power to transform lives and society. He made the remarks as guest of honour in a speech delivered by UCAA Corporation
Read MoreMpuuga (Left) addressing the press Civil Society Activists have called on the Opposition to lead the amendments into the Ratification of Treaties Act in Uganda to ensure that the role of ratification of the treaties, agreements and protocols signed by Uganda has an input of Ugandans through their leaders the
Read MoreStella Alibateese, the National Personal Data Protection Director at the launch of the report Ernst & Young (EY) has unveiled a comprehensive data protection and privacy report focused on Ugandan organizations. The report, based on a survey conducted between October and December 2022, aims to enhance stakeholder confidence through compliance
Read MoreThe Standard, Utilities, and Wildlife Court in Kampala has remanded businessman Andrew Mark Asiimwe to Luzira prison for alleged impersonation and attempted electronic fraud. Asiimwe, a resident of Bwera Mpondwe Kasese district appeared before Grade One Magistrate, Sanura Nambozo Tuesday. According to the court records, between January 2023 and July
Read MoreThe Mandulis Energy Firm in Got Ngur Village. The communities in Nwoya district, Northern Uganda heavily rely on agriculture for their livelihoods. They cultivate crops like maize, rice, groundnuts, millet, and soybeans for both commercial purposes and food consumption. However, they also depend on charcoal and firewood as their primary
Read MoreThe government is considering the suspension of its subscription to some international organizations due to a growing debt burden, which has reached 49 Billion Shillings. Vincent Bagiire, the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, says that Uganda has defaulted on several financial obligations to international organizations, negatively impacting
Read MoreKCCA ED, Dorothy Kisaka The media is awash with stories of the unavoidable expiry of Miss Dorothy Kisaka’s contract of service and the seeming impasse between her and her supervisors, the Ministers of Kampala Capital City Authority and Metropolitan Affairs. Various high government officials and governance analysts have had no
Read MoreGRAPHICS | GENNEVIEVE AWINO | NMG For a country dangerously addicted to debt as it battles unrelenting inflation, daily weakening of the shilling, tax shortfalls and rising interest rates, the fresh wave of political unrest could push Kenya’s economy to the edge, economists and analysts have warned. While East Africa’s
Read MoreThe Kisumu Oil Jetty in Kisumu on May 5, 2023. PHOTO | ONDARI OGEGA | NMG Kenya has shipped an estimated 27 million litres of fuel to Uganda through the Kisumu oil jetty, as the landlocked neighbour increasingly turns to the Lake Victoria waters to meet its fuel requirements. Kenya
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