One car likely to benefit is the Volkswagen Polo By Motoring Guru The German car maker, Volkswagen, has launched a Sub-Saharan Africa region to develop and strengthen the African market. Sub-Saharan Africa is a geographical term used to describe the area of the African continent which lies south of the …
Read More »ARTS: You can only be a child #once exhibition
By Dominic Muwanguzi In response to the growing numbers of child labour in poor communities world-wide, a photo exhibition titled #ONCE opened in Kampala recently. The photographs were taken by renowned photographer Jimmy Nelson in Erussi Sub-county, Nebbi District in West-Nile region. They show children in child labour free-zones, including …
Read More »How often do we need to go to the gym?
And other exercise questions answered By James Brown If you started 2017 with a resolution to lose weight or get fit then you may have found that you need some extra help and motivation by now. In fact, 80% of people who join the gym in the New Year will …
Read More »INTERVIEW: Regional cargo tracking eased
The Rwanda Revenue Authority (RRA) has become the third East African region country to commission the regional Electronic Cargo Tracking System (RECTS). After similar events in the recent past in Nairobi and Kampala, this completes the geo-fencing of the route from Mombasa to Kigali. The Independent talked to Richard Tusabe, …
Read More »Rwanda makes history
Kagame becomes first African leader to address powerful Israel lobby group President Paul Kagame hailed Rwanda-Israel friendship in an address to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) policy conference. He was the first African head of state ever to address the pro-Israel forum that brings together thousands of activists, …
Read More »ANALYSIS: FDC WhatsApp fight intensifies
Muntu group wants Besigye to show results of 2016 elections It is just a few months to elections for party president and the war between supporters of different rivals for leadership in the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) has intensified. “I feel horrible about the goings on in my party …
Read More »THE LAST WORD: Africa through North Korean eyes
Why this communist state, with per capita income like ours, manufactures nuclear weapons and satellites while we can’t By Andrew M. Mwenda Last week the U.S. announced its intelligence showed North Korea was planning to test another nuclear weapon. If it does, it will be the sixth nuclear test by …
Read More »BUSINESS: Kyambadde shrugs off ‘Buy Uganda’ critics
BoU’s Mutebile leads call for export driven policy instead Amelia Kyambadde, the Minister for Trade, Industry and Cooperatives, has had a tough time selling her flagship policy plank, the `Buy Uganda Build Uganda’ (BUBU). But the latest criticism against the policy came from the most unexpected voice; that of the …
Read More »Kaweesi case divides police, CIID, CMI, ISO
Police officers suspects, main investigator was sidelined by Kayihura Grace Akullo, the Assistant Inspector General of Police (AIGP) faces the toughest assignment of her career; finding the masterminds of the worst murder to rock Uganda Police. As head of the Criminal Intelligence and Investigations Directorate (CIID), Akullo has been charged …
Read More »More export funding for Uganda
The United Kingdom plans to increase funding for export credit to Uganda, from £300 million (Shs1.35 trillion) to £600 million (Shs2.7 trillion). Lord Dolar Popat, the British Trade Envoy to Uganda, announced the plan at a breakfast meeting held for United Kingdom (UK) business community in Uganda. The new export …
Read More »