Farmers have been urged to apply Good Agronomic Practices (GAPs) and pick only red/ripe cherries /Courtesy photo Uganda’s coffee exports have been increasing in recent years. In 2014, Government through Uganda Coffee Development Authority (UCDA) embarked on a countrywide drive to replant coffee in the country in order to revive
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Judith Nabakooba the Minister of ICT and National guidance Participants of the 6th National Conference of Communications (NCC) highlighted the opportunities, challenges and solution for innovating in a crisis and necessity of guaranteeing reliable and resilient network connectivity. The Conference was hosted by the Uganda Communications Commission (UCC) in collaboration
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Wreckage of the vehicle at the scene Two footballers attached to the Kisoro based Highland Gorilla Sports Club have died in a motor accident, which injured five others. The deceased players are Brian Iranatwe alias Don and Edwin Twizere. Iranatwe is also the former Kisoro Municipality National Unity
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Ms. Anne Abeja, the Company Secretary at Housing Finance Bank The theme of International Women's Day 2021 is “Choose To Challenge” The premise of this theme is the simple belief that from challenge comes change and people all over the world can choose to challenge gender bias and inequality in
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Panelists that graced the 2021 Women's Conference organized by URA As Uganda prepares to join the rest of the world to commemorate the International Women’s on March 8th, URA Saturday organized a special conference for women to join hands and empower each other irrespective of their different business areas. The
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Ian Rumanyika, the Ag. Assistant Commissioner Public and Corporate Affairs at URA Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) has collected Shs18.6bn in tax revenue from Voluntary Disclosure Program in just five months. This means that taxpayers are beginning to appreciate the importance of the program. According to URA, Voluntary Disclosure is a process
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President Yoweri Museveni (pictured) has announced that government will release over 51 people arrested during the November 2020 protest and review files of those already taken to court.The president made the revelation today at Kololo Independence grounds after chairing the 3rd Summit of the Inter-Party Organization for Dialogue-IPOD.Museveni says the
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David Wandera, the Absa Bank Uganda Head of Financial Markets Tax rates for investors are generally high, the Absa Africa Financial Markets Index 2020 indicates. The report, which analyses the financial markets in 23 African countries to aid their development and maturity ranked Uganda 15th among countries with a conducive tax
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Ronald Muyanja, the Head of Trading at Stanbic Bank Uganda Private sector optimism picked up during February ending a two-month sequence of job cuts and leading to an improvement in the Stanbic Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) to 51.2 from 49.8 in January. The index is now above 50.0 signifying a
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Michael Mugabi, the Managing Director at Housing Finance Bank (L) and World Remit Representative after sealing the partnership deal In line with their strategic objective of improving customer service delivery particularly through use of technology, Housing Finance Bank has entered a partnership with World Remit to bring convenient money transfer to
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