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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | TotalEnergies EP Uganda has today unveiled 200 Ugandan youth who have been selected from the Tilenga MOOC to join the Tilenga Academy training program. The program is aimed at empowering youth with skills and international certifications to work on the Tilenga project during the …

Lira, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Lira District local government is stuck with Shillings 4 billion meant for the recruitment of staff, especially in the health department. The money, which was disbursed to the district at the beginning of this Financial year, is laying redundant in the district’s account pending …

Algiers, Algeria | THE INDEPENDENT & URN | Algeria’s leader Abdelmadjid Tebboune has held talks with Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni, who is on a three day visit to the north African country. The talks are said to have covered several areas of mutual interest, as Algeria reportedly plans to spend $1 …

Kiruhura, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Museveni has said no one will cut the operating budget of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation as long as he is still the President of Uganda. He says the government cannot make such a mistake because Uganda currently needs science …

Families getting out of poverty is a good first step to supporting women  Kiruhura, Uganda | President Yoweri Museveni has showcased the development and growth of Kiruhura district as one that the rest of the country can learn from to leapfrog to sufficient household income through commercial agriculture. At the International …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Kampala Capital City Authority-KCCA Council has unanimously resolved to halt the issuance of contracts to casual workers for cleaning the city. The decision was reached in the KCCA council meeting chaired by Deputy Speaker Nasur Masaba on Tuesday following a resolution presented by the Lord …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Bank of Uganda (BOU) has admitted that a package introduced to rescue small and micro enterprises from the effects of COVID-19, has hardly worked, almost one and a half years later. According to information from the Bank, just six billion shillings has been …

U.S. Mission Releases ‘Report to the Ugandan People’ 60th Anniversary Edition   Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  The U.S. Mission on Wednesday marked 60 years of USA-Uganda development partnership by releasing a 60th anniversary edition of the ‘Report to the Ugandan People’.  This is the 6th consecutive annual report that …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | HR practitioners in Uganda have been urged to constantly invest in upskilling themselves and their workforces to prepare their organisations for the future of work. While giving the keynote address during the annual ‘Heads of HR Beginning of Year Cocktail’ held at the Kampala …

Where the artist is a freelancer and is hired by a promoter, events manager or another artist, the person who hired their services is required to withhold 6% of the amount paid to the artist if the artist is Ugandan based COMMENT | Sarah M. Chelangat |  Over the last two …