Kitgum, Uganda | URN | The Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries has launched the distribution of Robusta coffee seedlings worth 1.76 billion Shillings in Kitgum District, in a major push to scale up coffee production across Northern Uganda. Julius Twiine, the officer in charge of Mid-Northern Uganda at …
Read More »Swiss vote on basic income for all to fight poverty, inequality
Geneva, Switzerland | AFP | Carole, a scientist from Zurich, recently received a dream message on her phone: she will receive 2,500 Swiss francs ($2,500, 2,300 euros) a month for the next year, no strings attached. The 30-year-old ethnologist, whose last name has not been revealed, could be the first …
Read More »Uganda’s failure to transform
Why in spite of registering good welfare outcomes we have made little progress at structural transformation I have just been reading the National Population and Housing Census (NHPC) report for 2014. It shows Uganda has registered many welfare improvements, but also reveals that President Yoweri Museveni’s dream of transforming Uganda …
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