VIDEO: Police to back law enforcement team on the city Kampala, Uganda | NTV UGANDA | The Police say they will work alongside KCCA’s law enforcement officials to ensure that street vendors don’t return on the streets of Kampala. This was after a meeting between the police and Minister for Kampala, …
Read More »VIDEO: KCCA Withdraws Enforcement Officers from Streets
VIDEO: KCCA Withdraws Enforcement Officers from Streets Kampala, Uganda | NBS TV | The Kampala Capital City Authority has withdrawn its enforcement officers off Kampala’s streets in response to the increasing public hostility against the men and women in yellow uniforms. Jennifer Musisi told legislators earlier yesterday that Kampala’s streets had …
Read More »KCCA vendor: Human Rights activists demand ‘just compensation’
Kampala, Uganda | GODFREY SSALI | Human rights activists have demanded that Kampala Capital City Authority takes measures to tame the brutality of its law enforcement force and also compensate the family of the late Olivia Basemera who was pursued to death by the force Basemera, who was a vendor in …
Read More »VENDORS: Kyambadde condemns KCCA enforcement officers
Kampala, Uganda | GODFREY SSALI |The Minister of Trade, Industry and Cooperatives Amelia Kyambadde has condemned the manner in which Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) enforcement officers handle street vendors especially women, saying such excessive force is uncalled for. This follows the death of a one Olivia Basemera last Friday …
Read More »VIDEO: Hawkers Should Leave Kampala Streets – Beti Kamya
VIDEO: Hawkers Should Leave Kampala Streets – Beti Kamya Kampala, Uganda |NBS TV| Kampala Capital City Authority under the Kampala Ministry is developing more markets within Kampala to accommodate street vendors so that they can leave the streets. Kampala State Minister, Benny Namugwanya says some markets like Wandegeya and USAFI still …
Read More »UIA to withdraw investor undeveloped park land
Jolly Kaguhangire is the new executive director of the Uganda Investment Authority. She spoke to The Independent’s Isaac Khisa about the major reforms that await the agency. It is now a few months since you took over office as ED of UIA. What is your assessment of your performance …
Read More »THIS WEEK: Fresh amendments made in KCCA bill
THIS WEEK: Fresh amendments made in KCCA bill On July 27, the process of scrutinizing the Kampala City Council Authority (KCCA) amendment bill 2015 started and fresh amendments introduced. Defending the bill, the state Minister for Kampala Benny Namugwanya said while some of the earlier proposed controversial clauses had been …
Read More »Democratic Party ‘Togikwatako’ political activists granted bail
Kampala, Uganda | GODFREY SSALI | Two Democratic Party (DP) political activists have been granted bail by Buganda Road Court after spending a night in Luzira Prison on charges of holding an unlawful assembly. Hakeem Kiiza and Moses Mboowa aka Chief Mboowa were arrested in Kampala on Thursday for staging …
Read More »Mujib Kasule: Uganda football doesn’t start, end with Cranes
Mujib Kasule is a former footballer turned manager. He was vice president of Uganda’s football governing body, the Federation of Uganda Football Associations (FUFA) from 2012 to 2014. KAMPALA, UGANDA |AGNES E NANTABA| Even as a privileged child who was born into a wealthy family in Wandegeya, a Kampala city …
Read More »ANALYSIS: Amending constitution over land
When poor peasants cry as the rich elite squabble KAMPALA, UGANDA |FLAVIA NASSAKA| Hussein Bbale is 46 years old, married with five children. But he lives in his mother’s house in Nyakabale village in Fort Portal town. This is unusual. So how did it happen? Nyakabale village is about 5kms …
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