Uganda must comply with new stringent quality standards set by Sudan, the country’s second largest importer of coffee, or else risk having her coffee blocked from the lucrative market. A high profile delegation comprising Trade ministry, UCDA and UNBS officials was in the Sudanese capital Khartoum recently on the invitation …

The Ugandan United Nations battalion in Somali has been hailed by the African Union (AU) and African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) after they completed a year’s tour of duty. “What you are doing is really important. You are a very important part of a bigger effort to help Somalia …

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NBS: The Civil aviation authority has responded to government plans to revive the national carrier saying its survival will depend on whether or not political leadership chooses to interfere. In this report, Richard Olwenyi takes a look at the five hurdles that Uganda is likely to face in reviving the …

Cairo, EGYPT | AFP | Egypt cancelled a high school final exam on Sunday after papers for it were leaked online, the education ministry said, in the latest such incident this month. The exam in applied mathematics would instead be held next Saturday, it said, and other tests in geology, …

Paris, FRANCE | AFP | It started with “Grexit” — the long trumpeted but never realised axing of Greece from the European Union. It was then reborn as “Brexit” as Britain started down the — this time voluntary — path of leaving the bloc. The “-exit” formulation was coined by …

NBS: The legal fraternity has commended Chief justice Bart Katurebe on what is described as an impartial stand in the Dr. Kiza Besigye trial. Justice Katurebe recently wrote to the Uganda law society over concerns that some judicial officers were not neutral in as far as this case was concerned. …

Sydney, Australia | AFP | A piece of aircraft debris found off the coast of Tanzania will be examined to see whether it could be from missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, Australian officials said. Australia’s Transport Minister Darren Chester gave no description of the fragment found on Pemba Island, the …

ATC News by Wolfgang H. Thome President Yoweri Museveni, when addressing the first cabinet meeting of his new government, reportedly told them that ‘because our brothers in Ethiopia, Kenya and South Africa let us down‘ the formation of a national airline was now a priority. (Read FULL Museveni speech here) …

ATC News by Wolfgang H. Thome An attempted smear campaign against the presently one and only fully licenced safari operator in South Sudan, Bahr el Jebel Safaris, will have less than desired outcomes by the perpetrators it was learned overnight. Local sources were swift to point out that violators of …