Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | An Audit of the Exodus SACCO, the Uganda police force savings and credit cooperative society has failed to trace books of accounts for the past six years. This was revealed on Friday by the SACCO Chairperson, Henry Kalulu during the Annual General Meeting. The missing …
Read More »Traders reap big from inter-parliamentary games
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Traders dealing in sportswear are reaping big from the on-going East African Inter-parliamentary games. The games have attracted MPs and staff of national parliaments of Uganda, Burundi, Tanzania and Kenya plus the East African Legislative Assembly-EALA. They will run from December 7th- 18th, 2019. At the …
Read More »French companies keen on partnering with Ugandan firms
Kampala, Uganda | RONALD MUSOKE | Following a series of high-level meetings with President Yoweri Museveni and local business executives, Momar Nguer who recently led a business delegation of top French executives to Uganda declared the mission a success. The 25-member delegation recently traveled to Kampala under their MEDEF …
Read More »Uganda, Rwanda officials to meet today over border closure
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Delegates from Rwanda will meet their Kampala counterparts at Speak Resort Munyonyo today to deliberate on the re-opening of the border between both countries. The Kampala meeting, which was supposed to be held in October and then pushed to November but was cancelled at last …
Read More »Uganda-Rwanda talks back on track
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT & AFP | Rwanda’s Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Olivier Nduhungirehe will lead a high level delegation to Uganda today for a second meeting to discuss the implementation of the Memorandum of Understanding signed in Angola in August. This second meeting that aims at easing …
Read More »Umeme secures $70m for investments in the distribution network
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda’s electricity distributor, Umeme Limited has secured a $70m (Ushs .258 billion) funding to support its planned investments in the electricity distribution network. The International Finance Corporation (IFC) was the lead-arranger in the syndicate including Stanbic Bank Uganda Limited, Standard Chartered Bank and the …
Read More »Cipla sinks into Shs14.5bn loss
Pharmaceutical firm hopes to recover in second half of the year Kampala, Uganda | ISAAC KHISA | Cipla Quality Chemicals Industries Ltd has recorded a decline in profit since it was listed on the Uganda Securities Exchange a year ago but its managers are now pinning its growth prospects on …
Read More »KCCA ED Kitaka tours city roads, says they are too old to be maintained
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Acting Executive Director of Kampala Capital City Authority Engineer Andrew Kitaka has said plans are underway to fully rehabilitate more than 65km of the city’s roads because it’s no longer economical to maintain them under their age. Eng. Kitaka on Wednesday toured a couple of …
Read More »Karamoja youths reaping big from vocational skills
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Samuel Omoit, 28, is a pioneer beneficiary of the skills development program under Support to Skilling Uganda (SSU) in Karamoja. He received vocational skills at Nakapiripirit Technical Institute in 2016 under Support to Skilling Uganda, which is jointly implemented by government and Enabel, a development …
Read More »Stop tinkering with currency notes features – Mutebile warns
Kampala, Uganda | JULIUS BUSINGE | In the past few days social media has been awash with pictures of currency notes with political messages written on by suspected supporters of President Yoweri Museveni and Kyadondo East Member of Parliament, Robert Kyagulanyi (Bobi Wine). The notes in question are of Uganda …
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