Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda will next month launch a revised National Trade Policy and National Export Development Strategy as it seeks to implement an ambitious tenfold growth strategy anchored on agro-industrialisation, tourism, mineral development and science, technology and innovation and creative industries. According to the Minister …
Read More »Govt, stakeholders agree to restrict sugarcane weighbridges after theft complaints
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Government and sugar industry stakeholders have agreed on new rules to regulate sugarcane weighbridges, limiting them strictly to weighing functions and banning all trading activities, following complaints that the facilities were enabling cane theft. The resolutions were reached at a stakeholders’ meeting held Tuesday …
Read More »Uganda accelerates efforts to tap into AfCFTA
Government has unveiled a 30+ member committee to oversee its activities in the bloc Kampala, Uganda | Julius Businge | Uganda has launched its African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) National Implementation Committee (NIC), signaling a renewed push to leverage the continent’s single market for goods and services. The committee, comprising …
Read More »Prioritize cyber security training to curb modern security threats: CDF
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Chief of Defense Forces Lt Gen Wilson Mbadi has tasked the directing staff at the Senior Command and Staff College to prioritize training in cyber security. While presiding over a ceremony in which Gen Andrew Gutti handed over the leadership of the college to Maj. …
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