Tag Archives: KAMPALA

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Just four months after it was rehabilitated the Kampala-Port Bell railway line has carried 40,000 tonnes of goods to and from. According to the managing director of Uganda Railways Corporation, Charles Kateeba, the 10-kilometre line, which was disused for over 10 years, needed just 800 …

Kampala, Uganda | IAN KATUSIIME | A total of 41 acres have been acquired by Uganda National Roads Authority (UNRA) in the expansion of Kampala Northern Bypass. According to the design of the bypass, UNRA is set to acquire 54 acres in total. During an inspection tour of the 21km bypass …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Supporters of The New Formation in Rwenzori region have advised, General Mugisha Muntu to take to take the campaign of building his party structures outside Kampala. This came up during a meeting between Muntu and his supporters at Whispering Gardens in Fort Portal this morning. …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) has allocated 37 billion shillings to divisions in the 2019/20 financial budgeting process. This is the first time that KCCA has created budget votes for the divisions since its creation in 2011. The division mayors have been lobbying for creation …

Kampala, Uganda | JULIUS BUSINGE | The office of the Prime Minister (OPM) together with the Global Panel on Agriculture and Food Systems for Nutrition will launch a new policy brief on Nov.13 entitled ‘preventing nutrition loss and waste across the food systems’. This will be followed by a technical seminar …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A Kampala Metropolitan Police swoop on several suburbs of the city ahead of the Christmas Festive Season entered day three Thursday, with 146 arrested. Those picked up are suspected to be involved in cases of robbery, counterfeiting and drug abuse,muggings, pick pocketing on streets …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has pledged Uganda shilling 2.5 billion to Kampala National Resistance Movement (NRM) youth. The pledge was made by State House comptroller, Lucy Nakyobe who met Kampala NRM youth at Biyem Hotel in Mengo on Wednesday morning. The meeting came on the …

➡ $1bn project ➡ 95 kilometres ➡ 8 lanes Nakawa-Kyambogo ➡ 6 lanes Kyambogo-Mukono ➡ 4 lanes Mukono to Jinja Abidjan, Ivory Coast | THE INDEPENDENT | The African Development Bank (AfDB) has approved a sovereign loan of $229.5 million to Uganda to finance phase one of the Kampala-Jinja Expressway …

KCCA, WFP concerned as number of children without food grows from 13.5% to 18% Kampala, Uganda | AGNES E NANTABA | More people are going hungry in Kampala district; home of the nation’s capital. This is odd because Kampala is the center of the richest people in Uganda. But as many …

THIS WEEK: UPDF criticised over cover up in city abduction Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | There has been sharp criticism towards the Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) for the summary trial of the four armed men who were captured on video abducting Yusuf Kawooya, a member of the Democratic Party …