The government has started implementing guidelines that are aimed at ensuring that money kept under informal saving methods is protected and accounted for. This includes money that Ugandans keep in their houses or elsewhere, which is estimated to be in hundreds of billions of Shillings. The least formal means of
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Toka polled 289 votes, while Andweineho came second with 278 votes An international student from Sudan, Given Victor Toka has been voted the new Guild President 2022/2023 for Nkumba University. Toka, a second-year International Relations and Diplomacy student defied all odds to beat six Ugandans to the race. He beat
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Government has paid all the salaries of civil servants, the State Minister of Finance -General Duties, Henry Musasizi, has said. The Minister made the remarks while appearing before the parliamentary committee on National Economy today to table a loan request of Shs1.7 trillion to be acquired from the standard chartered bank of
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Uganda’s State Minister of Finance-General Duties, Henry Musasizi (pictured) has told MPs on Parliament's committee on National Economy that they should expect more loan requests from Government until the budget is fully financed. Parliament in May passed a budget of Shs48.1 trillion for the financial year 2022/2023 and was supposed to be financed through
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Edward Munaaba (R) trains community members and youth on good agronomic practices in coffee production. Edward Munaaba, the founder of Edwards Hamlet, is a retired climate change practitioner who is using the principles of regenerative agriculture to grow coffee on 8 acres in Busoga sub region. His coffee is doing very
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Uganda’s Annual headline Inflation for October 2022 increased to 10.7%, from 10.0% of September 2022, the Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS) has said in its Consumer Price Index for October 2022. Headline inflation is inflation-related to all the economy's commodities, goods, and services. On the other hand, UBOS says the Annual
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Although they have neither engineering knowledge nor strong and appropriate construction materials, residents of Bukwo district have decided to risk drowning than being cut off from neighbours and embarked on constructing bridges on their own using locally available materials. On Saturday, residents of the two sub-counties came together and started
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Communities bordering Queen Elizabeth National Park are turning to apiary projects to safeguard their gardens from wildlife invasions. Mobilised under Kataara Women’s Poverty Alleviation Group-KWPAG in Kicwamba Sub County of Rubirizi district, the farmers now have over 200 beehives spread along the boundary of the park and their agricultural fields.
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Some of the Congolese refugees at Bunagana border trekking to Rutshuru. Thousands of refugees have on Saturday trekked back to the war-troubled territory of Rutshuru in North Kivu Province, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) after the official shutdown of Nyakabande refugees holding centre in Kisoro district. Early this month,
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Farmers in Acholi Sub-region have been warned against cheaply selling farm produce to middlemen. Every dry season, middlemen infiltrate villages in all eight districts in the Acholi sub-region with trucks and their own weighing scales in search of grains and other cash crops. Others book the crops before they are
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