Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Kampala Capital City Authority-KCCA has entered a Memorandum of Understanding with the Uganda Tourism Board to promote the Capital City as a key tourism destination for local and foreign tourists. The KCCA Executive Director, Dorothy Kisaka, says that Kampala has a lot of tourism sites …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Kampala Capital City Authority-KCCA has started the process of closing Kiteezi Landfill with a study to inform safe closure. The landfill located in Lusanja village in Wakiso district was operationalized in 1996 and upgraded to an engineered facility in 2001. But Uganda’s largest landfill …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Kampala Capital City Authority-KCCA and buildings hosting government offices along Parliament Avenue have reopened four days after they were closed following last week’s twin bomb explosions. The twin bombings hit Kampala at the Central Police Station-CPS on Buganda road and the IPS building along …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Land Division of High Court in Kampala has issued a temporary injunction stopping government, Kampala Capital City Authority-KCCA, and any of their agents from carrying out any activity on Old taxi park land. The Old taxi park was closed for renovation in May 2020, and …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Controversy emerged in the Kampala Capital City Authority-KCCA council, following a proposal by the City Executive Committee for the establishment of a Lord Mayor’s forest. According to the proposal, the Kampala District Land Board had been tasked to identify at least three acres of land …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Kampala Capital City Authority-KCCA council has passed a Shillings 441.79 billion budget for the financial year 2022/2023, but leaders are still unhappy about the meager allocations. The Executive Secretary for Finance and Administration, John Ssebuwufu presented the budget before the council highlighting key items …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Kampala Capital City Authority-KCCA has finalized arrangements to retable the city market ordinance, the Lord Mayor Erias Lukwago has revealed. In 2019, the KCCA council passed the market ordinance providing for the licensing regime for permanent, semi-permanent and temporary markets, harmonizing the leadership process, market due …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | City market leaders in Kampala have expressed mixed reactions to the new directives by the president on markets. While meeting some market leaders, Kampala Capital City Authority officials and those from the Ministry of Kampala and Metropolitan Affairs on Tuesday last week, President Yoweri Museveni …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) has requested Parliament to approve a supplementary budget of Shs4bn to implement a Covid-19 response plan in the greater Kampala metropolitan area. The response plan aims at scaling up Covid-19 vaccine uptake, compliance to standard operating procedures and a surveillance mechanism …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Kampala Capital City Authority-KCCA councillors on Thursday put the Deputy Director of KCCA Eng. David Luyimbazi and the Director Gender Esau Galukande, on the spot over the mismanagement of city markets. Deputy Lord Mayor Doreen Nyanjura presented a report about the management of public markets in …
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