Dubai, UAE | THE INDEPENDENT | Over $400 million in green investment commitments have been announced for Uganda at the climate change conference (COP28) in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE). The green investment commitments, current and future, are for the next four years in the areas of renewable energy, water …
Read More »UIA executive director finally sacked
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The board of Uganda Investment Authority has finally sacked the embattled Executive Director Jolly Kamugira Kaguhangire, ending her brief tenure at the investment promotion agency. Kaguhangire’s four years’ contract was terminated a year after her interdiction on accounts of findings of a select committee …
Read More »22-yr-old thrills in dfcu ‘rising woman’ competition
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Four years ago, Sandra Nakayenze set out to change the lives of women coffee farmers in the hills of Sironko district. The social, economic, religious and cultural hardships encountered by both young rural women and the girl child in her village compelled Nakayenze to form …
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