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Uganda plans to open an investment office in Doha, Qatar to facilitate prospective investors with information on trade, investment opportunities and to promote tourism. “Uganda will open an investment office in Doha. It will be part of Uganda’s Embassy in Qatar andwill also work on the promotion of tourism,” said President …

Ambassador Solomon Rutega has described Uganda’s tourism as a “smiling beauty in the dark” whose potential will stun the world once the spotlight is put on it. “Uganda’s tourism beauty has been compared to a smiling beauty in darkness,” he told over 100 major tour and travel operators, airlines and media …

The Uganda Tourism Board (UTB) has said the country earned as much as $4 million by hosting the World Cross Country Athletics Championships at the weekend. UTB’s Chief Executive Officer Stephen Asiimwe told the press that Uganda hosted over 2,500 people and their expenditure is projected to have reached $4 million …

UK Trade Envoy challenges Uganda to reduce the cost of doing business The UK Prime Minister’s Trade Envoy to Uganda Lord Dolar Popat has challenged the Government of Uganda to invest more in the tourism sector and reduce the cost of doing business, if the country is to attain the …

Accra, Ghana | AFP | Ghanaian authorities have closed the popular tourist destination of Kintampo Falls after 20 people died in a tree fall tragedy, officials said Monday. A group of high school and university students were swimming on Sunday afternoon at the picturesque waterfalls in the Brong-Ahafo region, some 450 …

VIDEO: The 350km Mist rally, the second national rally event this year, will be held in western Uganda. The rally will run through key tourism points in the region. The rally has attracted drivers from Rwanda and Burundi.     Share on:

VIDEO: French Ambassador to Uganda Stephanie Rivoal says there has not been enough marketing of Uganda’s tourism potential in France and what majority know is Idi Amin, the former Ugandan president. But players have blamed this on low funding of the sector.   Share on:

Two UPDF soldiers who were last week  convicted of being in illegal possession of protected animal species worth sh129 million have been given a court fine of sh4 million each, failure of which they should serve two years in Luzira Prison. Corporal Kamugisha Collin attached to Entebbe Airport Guard Brigade …

Rabat, Morocco | AFP |  Morocco’s key tourism sector barely grew last year amid security challenges, but operators are hoping Chinese and Russian visitors will boost their fortunes in the coming years. While political turmoil and jihadist attacks have battered the sector in Egypt and Tunisia, Morocco registered 10 million …

VIDEO: Uganda’s Vice President Edward Ssekandi wants everyone involved in domestic tourism to try and expand on the range of tourism products across the country. This as different government institutions channel efforts towards increasing the number of visitors coming into the country, with a target of over 20 million arrivals by …