❇ TTCI Rankings 2019 ❇ In 2015 ➡ 114 ❇ In 2017 ➡106 ❇ In 2019 ➡112 👉Visitor arrivals 1,402,400 👉 Inbound receipts $937.3 million 👉Receipts per arrival $668 Top African countries 🇲🇺 Mauritius 54 🇿🇦 South Africa 61 🇸🇨 Seycheles 62 🇪🇬 Egypt 65 🇲🇦 Morocco 66 🇳🇦 Namibia 81 🇰🇪 Kenya 82 🇹🇳 Tunisia 85 …
Read More »Obasanjo hails Museveni for showing initiative in Rwanda row
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Former Nigeria President Olusegun Obasanjo has praised President Yoweri Museveni for taking steps to remove hurdles that had created a row with Rwanda. Obasanjo said that he was in the country earlier in the year and talked to Museveni about ways to resolving …
Read More »Iran warns any country that attacks will be ‘main battlefield’
Tehran, Iran | AFP | Iran’s Revolutionary Guards commander on Saturday warned any country that attacks the Islamic republic will see its territory become the “main battlefield” as he opened an exhibition of captured drones. Major General Hossein Salami also said Iran was “ready for any type of scenario” following …
Read More »KASAIJA: We are stuck with 300 newly created sub-counties
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Government is stuck with newly created administrative units across the country. “Government is currently stuck with about 300 newly created sub-counties and 200 Town Councils over lack of money to fund their operations,” Finance Minister Matia Kasaija revealed recently. He made the remarks during …
Read More »West Nile Cooperative Union seeks SH1 trillion compensation from Govt
Arua, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Members of West Nile Cooperative Union are Demanding one trillion Shillings from the government, as compensation for the destruction and loss, alleged incurred during the 1979 -1986 insurgency. West Nile Cooperative Union started in 1969 as a British American Tobacco- BAT supported …
Read More »Bukomansimbi district leaders reject Korean ambulance donation
Masaka, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Bukomansimbi district local government leaders have rejected a new Ambulance donated to them by the Korean government citing poor specifications. The government received a grant worth 1.2 billion Shillings from the Korea Foundation for International Healthcare-KOFIH in June this year, to put in place …
Read More »EGYPT: Anti-Sisi protests break out, several arrested
Cairo, Egypt | AFP | Rare small protests broke out on Friday in Cairo and other Egyptian cities calling for the removal of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi but police quickly dispersed them, AFP journalists reported. Dozens of people joined night-time demonstrations around Tahrir Square — the epicentre of the 2011 …
Read More »The whistleblower and Trump phone call: What we know
Washington, United States | AFP | A mysterious whistleblower, a telephone call between President Donald Trump and a foreign leader, and military aid to Ukraine. Here’s what we know about the latest political firestorm swirling around Washington: – Whistleblower – On August 12, an unknown whistleblower in the US intelligence …
Read More »Uganda to host AFREXIM East African regional bank office
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda has signed a hosting agreement and a memorandum of understanding with African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) to host their East African regional office starting next month. The announcement was made after a meeting between leading officials of the bank and President Yoweri Museveni at State …
Read More »Afreximbank President Oramah visits BOU
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A delegation from the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank), led by the President, Prof. Benedict Oramah, visited the Bank of Uganda in Kampala today to pay a courtesy call on the Governor, Prof. Emmanuel Tumusiime-Mutebile, and to brief him about the Bank’s support to the Ugandan …
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