Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Internal Affairs Ministry announced an upgrade from paper-based biodata-based electronic passports to polycarbonate ones. The Director of Citizenship and Immigration Control, Maj Gen Apollo Kasiita Gowa told journalists on Thursday that the polycarbonate e-passports will have enhanced security features. “We have completed an upgrade …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | All passport-related services have beem suspended for two days starting Wednesday to allow for a systems upgrade, the Internal Affairs Ministry announced. Johnson Namanya, the commissioner for Citizenship and Passport Control said that this is the first major system upgrade since the passport services went electronic …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Security agencies have successfully traced the Ugandan woman from Kawempe who was allegedly sold off for marriage in the Iraqi capital of Baghdadi. Officials from the Internal Affairs Ministry started tracing for the woman only identified by her pseudo name Shifah, at the beginning of July …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Internal Affairs Ministry has warned blacklisted labour export firms against withholding the passports and National Identity cards of the people they had planned to send out before their suspension. Last week, the government suspended eight labour export firms. The affected firms include the Middle …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The government has named eight labour export companies whose licenses have been cancelled. Internal Affairs ministry revealed the names of the companies after a meeting with officials from the Ministry of Gender in an attempt to save Ugandans who are being trafficked by unscrupulous labour …
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