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COVER STORY: New crisis over Karuma, Isimba Dams Senior officials at the Ministries of Finance, Energy and UEGLC, the government body in charge of electricity generation are desperate to stem the uncontrollable rise of the cost of Karuma and Isimba dams. Now, the matter might become a legal battle as …

A United States supported program to help spark explosive growth in the agriculture sector by bringing together some of Uganda’s most-trusted, powerful, and well-known sector leaders has been launched in Kampala. The Leveraging Excellence in Agricultural Development program, part of President Obama’s Feed the Future initiative, will bring together 17 …

New Security Minister Lt.General Henry Tumukunde has promised to work with local authorities in order to improve information gathering. “I plan to empower local authorities since there is government presence at all level. They will face their problems instead of bringing them to us. They are elected and paid to …

KCCA needs Field Data Enumerators & Supervisors for City Address Model project. NEEDED: 4 valuation supervisors 20 Field Data Enumerators   Terms of Reference for Data Enumerators and Valuation Supervisor by The Independent Magazine   Share on: WhatsApp

A Rich Management @RichTvAfrica interview with the Managing Director of @SerenaHotels, talking tourism in East Africa, Serena Maputo, Kigali, Dar Es Salaam, Nairobi, Kampala, Amboseli, Maasai Mara, Lake Elmentaita.   Share on: WhatsApp

  Doreen Tashobya, together with the boda-boda rider who was reported to be her brother, were crashed by a tipper that rammed into them in Entebbe on Tuesday morning. It is the second boda-boda accident that has shocked the nation in the past fortnight. Early this month, tweeps were left …

President Yoweri Museveni has challenged his new cabinet to look for investments, end corruption and move to total commercialization of agriculture in order to move the country to middle-income status. He will outline his complete plan for this to be achieved when his new cabinet meets for the first time …

World Bank shows the way for Uganda to get more from every shilling it invests The World Bank (WB) on June 6 unveiled its 7th Economic Update on Uganda at a ceremony in Kampala. The update, which is a bi-annual assessment of the state of the country’s economy, analyses the …

Is Museveni serious this time? The government is planning to increase public spending in the next financial year but some experts say it is punching above its weight. This could be true since the country is getting low returns on its large infrastructure projects. Since winning his fifth five-year term, …

NBS: The high court of the international crimes division has today kicked off the hearing of the case in which 32 people including top Muslim clerics are accused of terrorism, murder and attempted murder among other charges. Opening the hearing, the defense team put the Inspector General of Police Gen …