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Members of Parliament sitting on the Gender and Finance Committees have resolved to meet President Yoweri Museveni over the controversial National Social Security Fund (NSSF) Amendment Bill 2019. MPs say they need to first seek the President’s clarification and input in some sections of the Bill before they add theirs

Uganda registered 31 new cases on Tuesday bringing the country's total to 253. The cases were of truck drivers at the country's border points while eight of the new were contacts of previously confirmed cases. Tuesday's results came on the day the country begun easing restrictions of the nationwide lockdown

Tanzanian comedian Idris Sultan has appeared at a arraigned at a magistrate's court this morning in the commercial capital, Dar es Salaam, eight days after he was arrested. Sultan is to be charged with cybercrimes offences, tampering with evidence and using a Sim card registered in someone else’s name, a

New swarms of locusts are increasing the risk of food insecurity for millions of people in East and Central Africa who are already reeling from the impact of Covid-19 and flooding, humanitarian agency Oxfam has said in a new report. Locust invasions in recent months are estimated to have destroyed

United Bank for Africa (UBA) celebrated Africa Day 2020, by bringing together global leaders at the 2nd UBA Africa Day Conversations, screened live across the continent.  UBA helps set the debate around African economic development through its series of “Africa Conversations”.  This year, the focus was on the Sustainable Development

MPs on the Parliament's Budget Committee have recommended to Parliament to approve a supplementary request of Shs33.332bn of which Shs9.172Bn is for recurrent expenditure and Shs24.159Bn for development expenditure. This comes hardly four weeks to the end of the 2019/2020 Financial Year, It should be recalled that Government presented to

Public backlash has forced  Ministry of Finance to rescinded on its decision to settle Shs1.9bn outstanding energy bills for Fine Spinners and Nyanza Textile Mills also known as Nytil. The Ministry of Finance recently tabled a Supplementary budget of Shs33bn with part of the money meant to settle electricity bills

 Parliament has approved Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA)’s Shs10bn supplementary budget for rehabilitation of roads across the city less than two months to the closure of the 2019/20 Financial Year. The Budget Committee was informed that KCCA was in the FY2019/20 given an indicative figure of Shs.30.5bn for road maintenance

Traders under their umbrella body, Kampala City Traders Association (KACITA) have asked government to declare that the three months of COVID-19 induced lockdown a loss to the entire economy so that no rent obligation will be accrued to tenants. The revelation was made by KACITA Spokesperson, Issa Sekito (pictured) today