President Yoweri Museveni has presided over the passing out of 321 tank crews after completing Amour Basic Crews Course. The crews comprise of tanks and motorised infantry fighting vehicles, mambas and Buffalos (Nyoka). The ceremony was held at the Armoured Warfare Training School in Karama, Mubende district on Friday.
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The Bank of Uganda has proposed stringent rules on how money from dormant accounts should be returned to the Consolidated Fund. The proposal is contained in the National Payment Systems Bill, 2019 that was tabled before Parliament on Thursday by David Bahati, the Minister of State for Planning. BoU noted
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Uganda's Winnie Byanyima was on Thursday sworn-in as UNAIDS new Executive Director. She was sworn in by the UN Secretary General, Antonnio Guterres. Winnie previously served as Oxfarm International ED before being appointed UNAIDS boss. "I am greatly honoured by the @UN SG & I’m excited 2 lead @UNAIDS as
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Kenya and Somalia have agreed to restore bilateral agreements that would allow free movement of people, State House said Thursday, Daily Nation reports. At a meeting in Nairobi, President Uhuru Kenyatta and his Somali counterpart Mohamed Abdullahi Farmaajo said they were defending the relations between the two countries, in spite
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In a move aimed at ensuring that there is minimal back drop of growing bad roads especially upcountry, the Ministry of Works and Transport is conducting trainings and knowledge sharing workshops for both ministry and local authorities’ engineers. The trainings that have been conducted from October to November at Imperial
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The East African Community has revealed plans to mark and celebrate 20 years of existence. In a statement tabled before Parliament on Thursday, Julius Maganda, Minister of State for East African Community Affairs, said the overall objective of the EAC 20th Anniversary is to commemorate the key achievements under the
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Following the successful completion of their 35th Annual Conference, the members of the African Union for Housing Finance together agreed on a Cape Town Declaration on Housing Finance, at their Annual General Meeting on 6 November 2019. The 35 active AUHF members expressed their commitment to realising housing affordability across
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Government has tabled a loan request to Parliamentary Committee on National Economy seeking to borrow up to Euros 20.6M (about Shs83.7bn) from the Corporate Internationalization Fund of Spain for purposes of mapping of minerals in Karamoja region. Presenting the request yesterday, Matia Kasaija (pictured), the Minister of Finance Planning and
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On Thursday, Ugandans and the world woke up to a story that fast rising popular musician-turned politician, Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine had made it to the influential TIME Magazine 100 Next list. Although the news was celebrated by his supporters, some online comments appeared to question the authenticity of
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Rwanda's President Paul Kagame has warned his countrymen who may be tempted to destabilize the country saying they will pay a very high price. Kagame sounded the warning on Thursday while officiating the swearing-in ceremony of the newly appointed Minister of Environment, Minister of Sports,& Minister of Internal Security; as
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