This article appeared on NEXT CITY July 26, 2016 titled  How One African City Is Flipping the Script on Urban Development From Wall Street to the World Bank, people are looking at Kampala as a model for how cities can finance their futures, writes Liam Taylor Joseph Aliguma is perched …

COMMENT: Nimrod Muhumuza After years of touting of Uganda’s positive economic growth in flowery language, citing growth in the manufacturing and real estate sector, and reduced poverty and inflation statistics, it is now emerging that the government is contemplating forking out over Shs1 trillion to relieve over 100 companies facing …

Makerere ready to explode? August 06, 2016. On that date, will Makerere University Kampala re-open for its first Semester of the 2016/17 academic year? Uncertainty is the dominant mood on the sprawling campus of the nation’s oldest, biggest, and most prestigious institute of higher learning. Everything is quiet as most …

Job Opening Posting Title: Principal Coordination Officer Job Code Title: Principal Coordination Officer Duty Station: NAIROBI Posting Period: 26 July 2016 – 23 September 2016 Job Opening Number: 60777 Staffing Exercise N/A APPLY Here Share on: WhatsApp

Job Opening Posting Title: Senior Political Affairs Officer Job Code Title: SENIOR POLITICAL AFFAIRS OFFICER Department/Office: UNITED NATIONS ENVIRONMENT PROGRAMME Duty Station: NAIROBI Posting Period: 26 July 2016 – 23 September 2016 Job Opening Number: 63444 Staffing Exercise N/A APPLY HERE Share on: WhatsApp

Dr Peter Mwesige, African Centre for Media Excellence (ACME) Executive Director, has been named to head a committee to review Uganda Broadcasting Corporation. The terms of reference of the committee will include an organisational capacity assessment; studying the quality of content and services of all UBC channels; assessing the innovative …

ATC News by Wolfgang H. Thome Representatives of the Seychelles’ public and private sectors met again end of last week for another multi-sectoral meeting. The meeting was chaired by Vice President Danny Faure at the National House in Victoria and aimed at maintaining the consultations while listening to the private …

Kampala on Saturday held the 2016 edition of the ‘Vintage and Classic Car Show’.  The show started with a Snail Trail on the streets of Kampala a day earlier. PHOTOS from  enthusiasts who attended the event.   …Ford Model T at the Kampala Classic and Vintage cars show 2016. In …

Job Opening Posting Title: Director, Regional Integration and Trade Division Job Code Title: CHIEF OF SERVICE, ECONOMIC AFFAIRS Department/Office: ECONOMIC COMMISSION FOR AFRICA Duty Station: ADDIS ABABA Posting Period: 28 July 2016 – 25 September 2016 Job Opening Number: 64582 Staffing Exercise N/A Apply here   Share on: WhatsApp

Rouen, France | AFP | Muslims attended Catholic mass in churches around France on Sunday in solidarity and sorrow following the brutal jihadist murder of a priest, the latest in a string of attacks. More than 100 Muslims were among the 2,000 faithful who packed the 11th-century Gothic cathedral of …