By Patrick Kagenda The German government continues to fund Uganda Railways Corporation operations despite the rail operations being conceded to Rift Valley Railways (RVR). German Development Bank (Kfw) spokesman, Mr Wolfram Schweickhardt told The Independent from Frankfurt that in the framework of the Uganda German Development Cooperation, the Federal Republic …
Read More »PPDA to blame for delay in ship repair – Minister
By Patrick Kagenda On August 18 a Tanzanian cargo vessel MV Azza sunk on Lake Victoria with 200 tones of mineral water, 40 tones of cotton seed cake belonging to Century Bottling Co., the manufacturers of Coca cola. Azza was privately owned but its sinking added to the challenge of …
Read More »PPDA to blame for delay in ship repair – Minister
By Patrick Kagenda On August 18 a Tanzanian cargo vessel MV Azza sunk on Lake Victoria with 200 tones of mineral water, 40 tones of cotton seed cake belonging to Century Bottling Co., the manufacturers of Coca cola. Azza was privately owned but its sinking added to the challenge of …
Read More »How Andrew Mwenda was arrested
By The Independent Team In our continuing series ‘Terror Arrests’, we report the arrest of The Independent Managing Editor, Mr Andrew Mwenda. On the morning of Saturday April 26 this year, as The Independent’s managing editor drove from his home along Golf Course Road in Kololo, two suspicious cars, one in …
Read More »EAC businesses free to open in any partner State but Common Market debate shelved
By Bob Roberts Katende The private sector won some major concessions at the recent Second Round of the EA negotiations but gloom and pessimism over the planned Common Market reigned. Agreement on the planned free movement of goods, services, capital and persons under a planned Common Market remained elusive despite …
Read More »Will US sanctions shoot down Kony?
By Rosebell Kagumire The US government last week put sanctions on the Lords Resistance Army rebel leader Joseph Kony as Uganda sees no end to the two decade conflict. Although there has been no fighting in northern Uganda in the past three years, the population in the north is fearful …
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