Kampala, Uganda | THE INDENPENDENT | ActionAid International is urging countries including Uganda to impose taxes on surplus profits earned by fossil and the banking sectors. ActionAid International says a surplus profit technically known as a Windfall profit tax could generate as much as US$382 billion in revenue, an amount that …
Read More »Civil society actors worried as DGF project nears end
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Civil society actors are operating in uncertainty of their future as the deadline for the Democratic Governance Facility-DGF to wind down its operations in Uganda draws closer. The facility, a pool of funds from different international donors is the major funder of over 60 Non-Governmental Organisations-NGOs, …
Read More »ActionAid Uganda wants parliament to investigate cabinet resolution allowing investors to mortgage gov’t land
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | ActionAid Uganda wants parliament to investigate the cabinet decision allowing investors to mortgage government land allocated to them for use to ensure that it conforms to the existing land laws. On September 22, 2020, the government issued a set of conditions that will be followed …
Read More »Uganda is now a boda-boda economy
By Arthur Larok Today it’s more profitable to ride a boda-boda or run a small restaurant in town than engage in agricultural productivity in fertile rural Uganda. Very early on May 10 morning as I travelled from Kampala to my home district of Gulu for a meeting with the Institute …
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