Tag Archives: Market vendors

Mbarara, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | In what is becoming like a ritual, market vendors in Mbarara city are to be re-registered for yet another time. Resident City Commissioner James Mwesigye has directed for the fresh registration of all Mbarara Central Market vendors. The directive for new registration follows the election …

Mbarara, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Minister of Local Government Raphael Magyezi has directed Mbarara city authorities to display a list of market vendors who will occupy Mbarara central market before allocation of space. According to Magyezi, the rightful vendors are those that were initially in the market before the …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Kampala City Lord Mayor Erias Lukwago, backed by his executive want all individuals collecting illegal fees from market vendors prosecuted and the dues immediately stopped. The committee also wants the government to withdrawal military personnel deployed in the markets and replace them with KCCA …

Soroti, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Minister of Local Government Raphael Magezi, has directed Soroti city authorities to avail him a list of market vendors currently occupying stalls in Soroti main market. Early this month, Soroti city authorities relocated vendors to the new multi-billion market after its completion last year. …

Gulu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Gulu city market vendors have raised concern about the inadequate mosquito nets that were distributed. Over the weekend, the Ministry of Health distributed only 400 mosquito nets to the more than 4,000 vendors within the different markets in Gulu city. The distribution of the mosquito …

Soroti, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A total of 440 market vendors who accepted to remain sleeping in their stalls in Soroti city have received mosquito nets. The nets were delivered by the ministry of health on Saturday. Robert Adyama Ekaju, the Soroti Resident City Commissioner flagged off the distribution of …

Gulu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Market vendors in Gulu City have ignored the presidential directive of sleeping in the markets. Last month, President Museveni directed that market vendors should sleep within the markets to reduce travel to contain the transmission of COVID-19. The vendors, especially women argue that the …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Women activists have asked the government to look beyond mosquito nets and provide women spending nights in markets with security and sanitary places to guarantee their safety. On Friday last week, President Yoweri Museveni asked women vendors to sleep in the markets to reduce contact …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Equity Bank Uganda Limited has donated 2,000 mosquito nets worth Shs 40 million in partnership with Kampala Capital City Authority for market vendors. This follows President Yoweri Museveni’s directive that market vendors all over the country remain at their places of work for the next …

Lamwo, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Museveni has fulfilled a pledge of two lorry trucks to market vendors and farmer groups in Lamwo district. While commissioning the Ayuu Alali sugarcane project in Palabek Kal sub county, President Museveni pledged to donate the trucks to market vendors and farmers in …