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📌 RESULTS 🇺🇬 ➡ 10,000m – 5.10pm Jacob Kiplimo 1st  ➡ 1,500m – 7.22pm Winnie Nanyondo 7th  ➡ 3,000m SC – 8.00pm Boniface Sikowo 6th Albert Chemutai 7th  ➡ 3,000m – 8.45pm Joshua Cheptegei 1st Ostrava, Czech Republic | THE INDEPENDENT |  Joshua Cheptegei won his 3000m race at the …

150 sugarcane traders are demanding the government to compensate them over a ban by the Kenyan government to stop the importation of sugarcane from Uganda Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | More than 100 Ugandan traders who were affected by a decision by the Kenyan government to stop the importation of sugarcane from …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The High Court in Kampala has summoned the Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ Commissioner for Human Resource Mark Sseremba for cross-examination over the resignation of Uganda’s former Ambassador to Kenya. Sseremba was summoned by the Civil Division Judge Esta Nambayo following a request by former Uganda’s Ambassador …

New report show challenges they face to prevent maternal and newborn deaths Kampala, Uganda | PATRICIA AKANKWATSA | Majority of maternal and newborn deaths in Uganda are due to preventable causes that can be significantly reduced by access to midwifery care during pregnancy, at birth, and after birth, particularly the …

More funding, capitalisation of the bank coupled with increase in loan disbursements supported the growth in 2020 Kampala, Uganda | JULIUS BUSINGE | Uganda Development Bank Limited has realised a profit after tax for the year 2020 of Shs22bn, representing a 118% growth from Shs10.4bn reported in 2019 amidst the …

NRM MANIFESTO WEEK | Guaranteeing security of person and property is one of the key achievements of the NRM Government. The whole country is secure from border to border. To consolidate the security situation in Uganda, the Ministry of Defence and Veteran Affairs (MoDVA) has been working hard to achieve the …

  NRM MANIFESTO WEEK | To promote the establishment of mini-industries at zonal or sub-county level, the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Coorperatives  through the Rural Industrial Development Programme (RIDP), sixty three (63) enterprises with a focus on the following value chains: milk, coffee, maize, sim sim, wood and wood products, …

  NRM MANIFESTO WEEK |  Tourism is making a significant contribution to Uganda’s Vision 2040 of transforming Uganda into a middle-income country. It has become a transformative force propelling and fueling economic growth of the country. Tourism has become an invaluable unifying force, bringing together people of different nationalities, religions, regions …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  Parliament has administered oaths to 131 members-elect of the eleventh parliament on the first day of the four-day-long ceremonies.  Although the house had planned to administer oaths for 132 legislator’s on the first day of the exercise, two of the elected members did not turn …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  Members of Uganda’s 11th Parliament will be sworn in today, in ceremonies that will last four days. The House has 527 Members of Parliament (MPs) – that is roughly 100 more MPs than what the 10th Parliament had. The swearing in will be followed …