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The National Resistance Movement (NRM) has reportedly postponed youth elections for Northern Uganda   following a fake Interim Order purportedly from the Registrar Civil Division of the High Court. The order purportedly restrains the holding of NRM Youth Elections for Northern Uganda. In a statement dated October 9, 2020, the Judiciary

Modernizing agriculture requires cheaper loans Uganda is considering setting up an agricultural bank to enable farmers easily access cheaper credit, President Yoweri Museveni has said. He blasted commercial banks for failing farmers on access to credit, saying that they are only interested in funding traders to import. The President made

President Yoweri Museveni has lashed out at MPs for rejecting the plan to construct roads in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), saying the roads are aimed at boosting trade between the two nations. He said the project will have to be conducted. The President made the remarks in

Hon. Jackson Kafuuzi, the Deputy Attorney General, returning to his seat after presenting his report on the nomination dates Legislators are displeased by the government’s refusal not to extend nomination time by the requested 14 days for local government and parliamentary contenders, citing the government’s sabotage of its citizens. This

Africa's economy may rebound next year The World Bank says the coronavirus pandemic has reversed a decade of hard-won growth in Africa and could lead to a 3.3% contraction of its economy in 2020. But the bank predicted that growth would rebound next year. Africa has so far escaped the

Finance minister, Hon. Matia Kasaija, updating the House on the compensation due to Ugandans who traded with South Sudan in 2008 Parliament has criticised government over delayed compensation of Ugandan traders who supplied goods to the Government of South Sudan in 2008, even after Parliament appropriated funds for the same

Speaker Rebecca Kadaga has warned that families of MPs would grapple with processing pension, because of the failure by most MPs to submit data on their families in case of any calamity. The Speaker made the call during Wednesday’s plenary sitting where she urged MPs to submit to the Parliamentary

MPs wearing face masks during plenary on Tuesday, 6 October 2020. The mass distribution of masks has faced challenges The low mass production capacity of local manufacturers hampered the nationwide distribution of face masks, the Minister of State for Primary Healthcare, Dr Joyce Moriku, has told Parliament. “The total production