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Government has announced an extension of the SIM-card verification exercise to May 19, 2017 from April 20. The decision to extend the deadline rendered a High Court case filed in Kampala to stop implementation of the deadline “useless”, according to court’s Assistant Registrar Joy Kabagye Bahinguza. The High Court ruling was …

By Stephen Kafeero Frustration as corruption, incompetence delay issuance of national IDs Finance Minister Maria Kiwanuka’s proposal that individuals pay for national identity cards has been equated to selling the Ugandan identity. In her Budget Speech on June 14, the Minister said “economically active Ugandans” would be allowed “to pay …