Desperate truckers protesting the killing of their colleagues in South Sudan The majority of ambushes on Ugandan traders in South Sudan have occurred on vehicles that do not respect arrangements on the movement of convoys. Government records show that 14 Ugandans were killed in South Sudan between May and August 2021. They
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MPs on Parliament’s Budget Committee have quizzed Dr. Monica Musenero (pictured), the Minister of Science and Technology over claims that she has been bullying staff at the Ministry. The Minister is also accused of barring some staff from accessing the Ministry after she allegedly ordered Special Forces Command (SFC) to take
Read MoreMillers are stuck with sugar over limited market Ugandan sugar millers are stuck with a surplus of 160,000 metric tonnes of Sugar, the Uganda Sugar Manufacturers Association (USMA) has revealed. They say this is due to dwindling export market for Ugandan sugar. Against the above background, 14 sugar manufacturers today
Read MoreBusiness leaders and experts have cast doubt on whether the East African Community will benefit from the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) that took effect January 1 this year. The AfCTA is a trading arrangement supported by 54 African countries to create a single market, deepening the economic integration of the continent,
Read MoreBy Yusuf Masaba In the recent past, a host of countries especially those from the West have announced major commitments to significantly cut the carbon emissions, committing to achieving “net zero” in a few decades. In pursuit of this, huge cutbacks in the fossil fuels industry are expected to be
Read MoreHIV activists have raised concern about the continued high rates of HIV infection in Africa and renewed calls for strengthening prevention strategies. This follows another HIV vaccine trial that failed to make it through clinical trials. Ntando Yola, an HIV advocate with the Desmond Tutu Health Foundation, one of the
Read MoreGeneral Haji Abubaker Jeje Odongo, the Internal affairs minister The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Jeje Odongo has said that despite calls to evacuate Ugandans trapped in Afghanistan, some of them refused to leave the middle east country. Odongo made the revelation on Wednesday while appearing before Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee
Read MoreStudents taking computer lessons. These and many more will find The Lesson materials more interesting FILE PHOTO Long before the second wave of the pandemic, questions about the future of education dominated public discourse in Uganda. Shamim Nirere of Izere Education not only had the question lingering on her mind,
Read MorePresident Yoweri Museveni (L) presiding over the pass out of 97 cadet assistant superintendents of prisons and 267 non-commissioned officers. Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni has revealed why he is a teetotaller, saying he once tried to drink beer and whiskey and found both alcoholic drinks bitter and disgusting. “I had never
Read MoreEuropean Union Ambassadors together with some community members pose in-front of a dam in Kakamar sub-county, Kaabong district. A multi-million valley dam in Kakamar sub-county in Kaabong district funded by the European Union (EU) is lying idle due to cattle thefts that have left the entire sub-county without a single
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