COMMENT | CHRISTIAN WAMAMBE | Four years ago, in September, SafeBoda made a bold move into car hailing by launching SafeCar to address a simple but increasingly important customer need. SafeBoda customers had embraced the convenience, safety and affordability of boda rides to navigate Kampala’s traffic on their way to …
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Kampala, Uganda | URN | Uganda has secured 113 billion shillings, equivalent to 31 million US dollars, from the Green Climate Fund (GCF) after achieving verified reductions in deforestation and forest degradation. The funding, announced at the launch of the Uganda REDD+ Results-Based Payments Project, rewards Uganda for reducing an estimated …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Quality Chemical Industries Limited (Qcil) has called for stronger cooperation between Uganda and Nigeria to expand pharmaceutical manufacturing, strengthen regional medicine supply chains and improve access to quality-assured medicines across Africa. The call was made during the Uganda–Nigeria Business Forum and Exhibition held in …
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September 16 Pro Am, Entebbe Club POA Sunshine Development tour Sept 17-19 Entebbe, Uganda | PHILLIP CORRY | The Pearl of Africa Golf Series (POA) that starts today in Entebbe has been given an international boost with the arrival of 21 professionals who play on the Sunshine Tour. The POA …
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SPECIAL REPORT | Uganda is betting that replacing the Tax Identification Number (TIN) with the National Identification Number (NIN) will widen the tax base and curb leakage. But with millions already registered for tax, the harder test is whether better identification can actually translate into more revenue, reports Ronald …
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From a senior art lecturer at Makerere University Art School to now a full-time artist in his retirement, Paul Lubowa uses his phase in his life to self- discover himself as an artist and individual, and through the process creates art that permeate with new energy and rhythm. …
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Fort Portal, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | For more than three decades, King Oyo Nyimba Kabamba Iguru Rukidi IV was one of the most recognisable figures in Uganda’s traditional life. He became king of Tooro in 1995, when he was just three years old. His coronation turned him …
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Kampala, Uganda | URN | Kidepo Valley’s rangers will return to the Wildlife Ranger Challenge this month with a target on their backs. The team has won Uganda’s annual 21-kilometre “Race for Wildlife” for three consecutive years. On 19 September, it will attempt to make it four — this time …
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Kampala, Uganda | URN | Uganda’s long-awaited first commercial oil production is now expected by June 2027, after the government again revised its production timeline, raising fresh questions about a project whose delivery dates have shifted repeatedly over the past two decades. The latest indication was given when Finance Minister …
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NEWS ANALYSIS | URN | The decision by the government to name its crude oil “Pearl Sweet” has generated debate, with some questioning why the crude oil to be produced from the Albertine Graben needs a name as the country approaches first oil. The debate has gained traction on social …
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