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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The government is set to revise its Trade Policy and Export Development Strategy (NEDS) to accelerate export growth, strengthen industrialization, and position the country more competitively in regional and global markets. Speaking at a two-day National Trade Review Conference in Munyonyo, Francis Mwebesa, Minister of …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  In a decisive move to stabilize a key agricultural industry, the Ugandan government has brokered a binding agreement setting a minimum price of Shs125,000 per ton of sugarcane for the Busoga region. The intervention, finalized in a high-stakes Kampala meeting on Dec. 19, directly …

  Kampala, Uganda | JULIUS BUSINGE | The government has intervened in Busoga’s sugarcane sector, setting a minimum price of Shs125,000 per ton of sugarcane following complaints from out-growers over low prices. The decision was reached at a meeting held on Friday, December 19, 2025, in Kampala between officials from …

  Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Ministry of Trade, Industry, and Cooperatives, in collaboration with the International Trade Center and with support from the European Union (EU), has launched a new project that aims at empowering Uganda’s small and medium enterprises (SMEs). The four-year sh33billion project aims to …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  The Ministry of Health (MOH) is grappling with treating a high number of teenage mothers who develop complications after delivery. Revealing this to journalists at a press conference on Monday, officials in the ministry revealed that 27% of all mothers who get complications at …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Ministry of Health (MOH) has expressed concern over the high levels of absenteeism of health workers in various government facilities despite enhancing their salaries. Dr Henry Mwebesa, the Director General of Health Services, says that they recently went on a supervision tour of …

Uganda private sector to hold first business summit in Democratic Republic of Congo | THE INDEPENDENT | Private Sector Foundation Uganda representing private sector business associations in partnership with Government of Uganda will hold the first ever Uganda- DR Congo Business Summit between May 31 and June 8 in Kinshasa …

Entebbe, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Travellers entering Uganda will no longer have to undergo mandatory COVID-19 testing as has been the case. The new measures took effect on February 16,2022. According to a statement released by the Ministry of Health, the decision to stop testing was made by Cabinet …

Mpigi, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The government is targeting to vaccinate 2.6 million people in the Central region during the mass Covid-19 vaccination exercise.  The districts are Butambala, Gomba, Kayunga, Mpigi, Buikwe, Mukono and Wakiso. The Director-General of Health Services, Dr. Henry Mwebesa says that the vaccination exercise targets …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Plans by several schools to make a COVID-19 test compulsory for returning students, and to also increase school fees, could be frustrated if orders by the Ministry of Education are enforced. Several educationists URN talked to are however not happy with the directive, saying …