Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Justice Tadeo Asiimwe has summoned Mercy Nakibuka, the Secretary of Mpererwe Sekanyonyi Zone Mpererwe in Kampala District. Justice Tadeo issued the summons following the testimony of Henry Ssejjemba, the Local Council Chairperson of Ssekanyonyi Zone in Mpererwe. Ssejjemba was testifying as a witness of Businessman Medard …
Read More »Coffee to be supplied through cooperatives- Minister Kyambade
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Government is working out modalities to ensure that all the coffee produced in the country is sold through cooperatives. According to the Trade and Industries Minister Amelia Kyambade, the move is aimed at ensuring coffee farmers get fair prices for their produce. Although coffee …
Read More »Uganda hopes July Africa trade summit can address non-tariff barriers
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda is hopeful that the African trade meeting, taking place in Niger on July 7 will promptly address the issue of non-tariff barriers which for long has stood in the way of trade among countries. The meeting is intended to launch the operationalization the …
Read More »KCCA suffers two office break ins
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Kampala Capital City Authority-KCCA offices have been broken into twice within a space of two weeks, KCCA councilors heard on Thursday. This came to light through a June 23, 2019 letter authored by a whistleblower. According to the whistle blower, unidentified people broke into …
Read More »Health Ministry downplays calls to declare Kasese Ebola-free
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Ministry of health has downplayed calls to declare Kasese district free of the deadly Ebola Virus. A call had been made by the District Deputy Resident District Commissioner Joshua Masereka for the district to be declared Ebola-free on grounds that disease had been …
Read More »Police launches hunt for traffic penalty defaulters
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Kampala Metropolitan Traffic Police Commander Norman Musinga has launched a hunt for drivers with unsettled traffic penalties. The traffic police estimate that express penalty receipts worth 52 billion Shillings have not been cleared since 2007. Musinga says that traffic police officers have been deployed …
Read More »Three entities apply to offer Islamic banking services
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Three entities have applied to Bank of Uganda-BoU seeking to offer Islamic Banking services, according to the Deputy Governor, Dr. Louis Kasekende. He disclosed this during the BoU Town council hall meeting at Brovad Hotel in Masaka this morning. Dr. Kasekende explained that …
Read More »Parliament has destroyed property market-Knight Frank
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Real estate dealers in Uganda were left astonished by the enactment of a new law that banned the payment of rent foreign currencies. The law that will regulate the relationship between landlords and tenants, was passed by parliament last evening amid contention. Paying …
Read More »Manafwa residents live in fear of fresh landslides
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | More than 100 people in landslide prone areas in Bunabutsale, Kaato and Weswa Sub-Counties in Manafwa district are living in fear of fresh landslides. Fresh cracks continue emerging in Kaato Sub County due to the ongoing rains pounding the district. In May last year, …
Read More »Gov’t falls out with UTL administrator Bemanya Twebaze
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The State Minister for Investment and Privatization, has in a new twist of events written to the Attorney General to apply to the court for orders replacing Bemanya Twebaze as the Administrator of Uganda Telecom Limited (UTL). In a letter dated June 26, 2019, …
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