Street vendors before KCCA chased them off the streets The Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) has defended the decision to deploy both the Army and Police to conduct the chasing away of street vendors off the streets saying the decision was intended to avoid incidences of torture and violence used
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Here’s The Role Of Uganda Dev’t Bank In Accelerating Post Lockdown Recovery Of MSMES
By Bob Twinomugisha Over the last two years, the COVID-19 pandemic impacted businesses on national and global scale. Governments in many developing countries introduced severe containment measures, involving restrictions on economic activity and mobility, to curb the spread of COVID-19. In Uganda, public transport and non-essential businesses were closed during
Read MoreFrustrated By Gov’t Bureaucracy, Tumwebaze Says He’ll Spend 60% Of His Time In Field Engaging Farmers
Frank Tumwebaze (pictured above), the Minister of Agriculture, Animal Husbandry and Fisheries, has revealed that Government bureaucracy is frustrating him. Taking to his official Twitter handle, Tumwebaze said: “Government bureaucracy, rigidity, failure to appreciate logic, lack of a results oriented culture, resistance to reforms & new ideas etc, can really be
Read MoreKiteezi landfill is one of the areas under study. Researchers found that while they have leachate treatment plant, garbage is often not treated Scientists have asked authorities to ensure municipal garbage dumped at landfills is first treated having found heavy metal concentrations in milk from cows grazed along dumpsites.
Read MorePlastic Recycling taking place More and more plastic waste is being diverted from landfills and into a circular economy that grows employment and entrepreneurship in African countries, as we celebrate Global Recycling Day today (March 18). Food and beverage packaging is an important part of modern life, helping to ensure
Read MoreGold Refinery The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), has sanctioned Alain Goetz, the African Gold Refinery in Uganda, and a network of companies involved in the illicit movement of gold from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The action was taken pursuant
Read MoreThe International Monetary Fund (IMF) has given Uganda a clean bill of health regarding the handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, the funds and the economy as a whole. For this, the Fund’s board has allowed for the immediate release of 127 million US Dollars (about 455 billion Shillings) for the country
Read MoreSome of the small-holder farmers who are benefiting from Lolc Agritech solutions in Kisoro The recent innovation that uses digital literacy and technology in the rural Agricultural sector has registered tremendous success in terms of productivity and job creation. In districts like Kisoro and neighboring districts in western Uganda, many
Read MorePresident Museveni meeting General Abdel Fattah Abdelrahman Al – Burhan, the Chairman of the Transitional Sovereignty Council of Sudan. President Yoweri Museveni has called for free and fair elections in Sudan. Museveni said that political actors must rely on numbers and not tribes to win if it is to
Read MoreNewly Constructed Seed Schools In Masaka Develop Cracks Three Months After Commissioning
The classroom floor on Lukaya Government Seed School which already damaged barely three months after commissioning Three newly constructed seed schools in Greater Masaka have cracks barely three months after they were opened. The schools are Bukakata Seed school in Masaka district, Mbirizi seed school in Lwengo district, and Lukaya
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