The Chief of Defence Forces (CDF), General David Muhoozi has revealed that the fingerprinting of guns in the country has started with an aim of weeding out wrong elements within government and private security agencies. He made the remarks on Wednesday while appearing before the Defence and Internal Affairs Committee
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DTB Uganda has joined its customers to celebrate the annual customer service week which is always effective 1st – 6th October. The event is celebrated across all countries within which DTB has a presence. The main them for the week is #SustainingCXexcellence. “Life is too short not to celebrate every
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The Youth Power Research Uganda Group has asked the Kampala City Traders Association to take advantage of the new ceramics factory to encourage local producers. This is contained in a letter written by the group's leader, Ben Sebuguzi. A few days ago, President Tower Museveni commissioned the new factory in
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Kenya is set to acquire six new US-made light attack helicopter gunships in a multi-billion shilling deal that is being closed in the middle of severe austerity, an international arms magazine has said. The planes are part of the $253 million (Sh25 billion) arms deal that Nairobi signed with Washington
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The full liberalization of Uganda’s pension sector has suffered another setback after Government withdrew the Retirement Benefits Sector Liberalisation Bill aka Pension Liberalization Bill, 2011. State Minister for Planning, David Bahati Wednesday told Parliament that Finance Ministry needs more time to harmonise with the workers before consideration of the law.
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Protests have rocked Uganda since last year, when the government amended the constitution to abolish presidential age limits, allowing President Yoweri Museveni to stay in power indefinitely. The demonstrations spilled onto the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York last week, when more than 100 people joined
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The newly recruited Local Defence Unit (LDUs) to help Police and Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) in the fight against the increasing murders and crime in Kampala and surrounding areas will earn Shs200,000 per month. Interfacing with MPs on the Defence and Internal Affairs Committee at Parliament on Wednesday, General
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The Bank of Uganda (BoU) Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has raised the Central Bank Rate (CBR), a benchmark lending rate for commercial banks by 1 percentage point to 10 percent. The Central Bank attributed the increase to the upward trajectory in inflation, with core inflation (excludes temporary price volatility as
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The influential women's league of South Africa's governing ANC has called for the castration of convicted rapists, the Daily Maverick reports. It quotes a statement from the league's president Meokgo Matuba. She says that the idea of chemical castration, the use of drugs to curb the libido, should be explored,
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Prof. Emmanuel Tumusiime-Mutebile, Governor, Bank of Uganda, has once again assured politicians that nobody will interview with the indepence of the Central. He made the remarks at the Hosting of the Parliament of Ghana Finance Committee Members at a Benchmarking Exercise to Bank of Uganda on Thursday, September 27, 2018.
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