Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda Airlines today morning flew first commercial flight from Entebbe to Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) with eight passengers on board. The airline, which departed at Entebbe Airport at 6:05 a.m touched down at JKIA at exactly 7 a.m, five minutes ahead of the scheduled …
Read More »Uganda launches national airline in crowded East Africa sky
Kampala, Uganda | AFP | Uganda on Tuesday re-launched its national airline after two decades with an inaugural flight to Nairobi, becoming the latest East African nation seeking to revive their aviation industry. “The airline will first fly to seven destinations. Starting with Nairobi, Mogadishu, Juba and Dar es …
Read More »LIVE: PM Rugunda launches Uganda Airlines flights
✳Entebbe-Nairobi inaugural flight TODAY ✳Entebbe-Juba 10x weekly ✳Entebbe-Mombasa 3x weekly ✳Entebbe-Nairobi 2 daily ✳Entebbe-Mogadishu 4x weekly ✳ Entebbe-Kilimanjaro 3x weekly Entebbe, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Prime Minister Dr. Ruhakana Rugunda has just launched Uganda Airlines flights, with one of her Bombardiers 5X-KOB airborne, heading to Nairobi’s Jomo Kenyatta International Airport. “Today we …
Read More »LIVE: VP Ssekandi to launch Uganda Airlines flights
✳Entebbe-Nairobi inaugural flight TODAY ✳Entebbe-Juba 10x weekly ✳Entebbe-Mombasa 3x weekly ✳Entebbe-Nairobi 2 daily ✳Entebbe-Mogadishu 4x weekly ✳ Entebbe-Kilimanjaro 3x weekly Entebbe, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Vice President Edward Kiwanuka Ssekandi will be chief guest at Uganda Airlines inaugural flight at 11.10am today. On the flight to Nairobi will be government …
Read More »Court dismisses BOU case against Sudhir
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The High Court Commercial Division has dismissed the Crane Bank (in Receivership) suit against Sudhir Ruparelia and Meera Investments, with Justice David Wangutusi ruling that they have no legal basis to sue. The judge dismissed the suit on Monday over lack of legal basis …
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David Bahati links to secret American group revealed Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | David Bahati, the MP for Ndorwa West constituency who is also the Minister of State of Finance for Planning is among the leading subjects of a new Netflix docu-series called `The Family’ which examines a mysterious …
Read More »The new Uganda Airlines takes to the skies tomorrow
✳Entebbe-Nairobi, inaugural flight 10am August 27 ✳Entebbe-Juba, 10x weekly from August 27 ✳Entebbe-Mombasa, 3x weekly from August 27 ✳Entebbe-Nairobi, 2 daily from August 28 ✳Entebbe-Mogadishu, 4x weekly from August 29 ✳ Entebbe-Kilimanjaro, 3x weekly from September 22 Entebbe, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda Airlines is set to have an …
Read More »PM Boris Johnson supports new digital tax
Johnson insists US digital giants must be taxed ‘fairly and properly’ Biarritz, France | AFP | British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Saturday said that US digital giants needed to be taxed “fairly and properly” in a growing dispute with the United States over taxing the likes of Amazon, Apple, …
Read More »China plans new tariffs on $75 bn of US imports
Beijing, China | AFP | China announced Friday it will hit US soybeans, lobsters, peanut butter and other imports worth $75 billion with new tariffs in retaliation for Washington’s planned duty hikes, further intensifying the bruising trade war between the world’s top two economies. The punitive tariffs of 5 to …
Read More »Amos Wekesa test sails MV Kazinga on Lake Edward
Fort Portal, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The MV Kazinga is in Uganda, and ready to sail. This after weeks on the road from Mombasa, to Kampala then eventually to the Queen Elizabeth National Park in western Uganda. Great Lakes Safaris chief Amos Wekesa and his team on Wednesday test …
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