Inspire Africa was hired to promote coffee drinking culture among youth The Office of the Prime Minister (OPM) is on the spot for spending Shs9.6 billion on a local firm to train youth on how to drink coffee. MPs on Thursday raised the matter after the Auditor General revealed that some of
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Silver Wangalwa, a 20-year-old peasant farmer from Namabasa in the Mbale City Northern Division is in desperate need of Shillings 10 million for an operation after being shot by a police officer. His aunt, Iren Wandera explains that Wangalwa was working in the garden in Doho cell in Namatala ward
Read MorePlayers in the agriculture sector have expressed disgust over the move by government to continue paying agriculture extension workers without allocating money to facilitate implementation of extension services in the budget for the 2023/24 financial year. Speaking at a post-budget meeting on Thursday in which the Economic Policy Research Center
Read MoreTasked: Raphael Magyezi The Minister for Local Government, Raphael Magyezi has told parliament that his ministry is holding consultations with the Electoral Commission, Attorney General, Ministry of Finance and Ministry of Gender regarding Local Council elections. Magyezi made the statement during the Wednesday plenary sitting in which Members of Parliament
Read MorePresiding Officers tallying the 2021 poll results in Gulu (Photo by Dominic Ochola) The Shadow Cabinet has called on the Government to provide the necessary funds to the Electoral Commission (EC) to conduct Local Council leaders' elections within 30 days after the expiration of their tenure on July 10, 2023.
Read MoreMinister Amongi shakes hands with Hon. Oliver Schenk, the State Minister of Saxony after the meeting in Kampala on Wednesday In a significant development for international relations, Hon. Amongi Betty Ongom, the Minister of Gender, Labour, and Social Development has today met with a distinguished delegation from the German State
Read MoreThe Grain Council of Uganda has urged the government and the private sector leadership to formalize the agricultural export sub-sector as one of the ways to overcome hiccups in trade. This comes as Ugandan grain exporters to South Sudan are staring at losses following a decision by the authorities in
Read MoreThe Ministry of Water and Environment, through the Natural Resources Defense Initiative-NRDI, has handed over three generators to coffee farmers in the Nyamwamba catchment area of Kasese District to support them in adding value to their coffee produce. The 50,000W generators were provided to three cooperatives in Bulembia Division, Mbunga,
Read MoreHer excellency Jessica Alupo signing a book in honor of Dr. Jonathan Musinguzi (Photo by Immaculate Amony) President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has singled out "illegal fees" as a major factor contributing to the high rate of school dropouts in Uganda. Speaking during the National celebration of World Population Day in
Read MoreParliament has finally passed into law the Income Tax Amendment Bill 2023, in a move that will see Twitter, Facebook, Netflix and Amazon among others , pay a 5% Withholding tax on the gross revenue they make in Uganda. This followed the decision by President Museveni to withhold signing into law the
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