London, United Kingdom | AFP | Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Friday hailed a political “earthquake” in Britain after a thumping election victory which clears the way for the country to finally leave the EU next month after years of paralysing deadlock. With all but one result declared for the …
Read More »Uganda-Rwanda talks back on track
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT & AFP | Rwanda’s Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Olivier Nduhungirehe will lead a high level delegation to Uganda today for a second meeting to discuss the implementation of the Memorandum of Understanding signed in Angola in August. This second meeting that aims at easing …
Read More »Cipla sinks into Shs14.5bn loss
Pharmaceutical firm hopes to recover in second half of the year Kampala, Uganda | ISAAC KHISA | Cipla Quality Chemicals Industries Ltd has recorded a decline in profit since it was listed on the Uganda Securities Exchange a year ago but its managers are now pinning its growth prospects on …
Read More »China unlocks Uganda agriculture
US$2.4m to finance third phase of the FAO-China South-South cooperation Kampala, Uganda | RONALD MUSOKE | Loyda Twinomujuni is a successful dairy farmer from Mbarara in south-western Uganda with 200 cows. She says about 110 of these are milked and each gives about 16 litres daily. But it was not …
Read More »THIRTY YEARS: Museveni vs Besigye
Besigye, Museveni – Their 30 year fight ahead of 2021 Kampala, Uganda | IAN KATUSIIME | “Winnie, would you accept to be our candidate for President?” Col. Kizza Besigye posed that question sometime in early October 2000. His wife, Winnie Byanyima was surprised. “You as who? Who are `we?” she asked …
Read More »BOU: Tourism grew slower in Uganda in 2019
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Tourism earnings are estimated to have grown slower in the first ten months of 2019, according to to the Central Bank. The government had planned to attract more than one million tourists this year on top of the 1.8 million people received in 2018, …
Read More »‘Unconsumed electricity will hit Uganda’s budget hard’
MUHAKANIZI: Unconsumed electricity will hit Uganda’s budget hard; capacity to rise to 1200MW, yet Ugandans can only consume 600MW Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda must now reserve money to pay for generated but unconsumed power for the next five years, Secretary to the Treasury Keith Muhakanizi has said. …
Read More »Floods kill 12 people in Bundibugyo
Kampala, Uganda | AFP | Twelve people have been swept to their deaths by floods in western Uganda, the Red Cross said on Saturday, as the East African country is battered by torrential rain. “We have recovered 12 bodies from the water and one person has been rushed to …
Read More »US conducts joint knowledge exchange with UPDF in Somalia
Mogadishu, Somalia | BRENNEN LEGE | U.S. service members in Somalia end of last month conducted a joint Tactical Casualty Combat Care information exchange and mass casualty exercise with neighboring Ugandan African Union Mission in Somalia soldiers. The operation enhanced partner force interoperability and communication, and instilled enduring procedures for mass …
Read More »EAC’s bad year
Cancellation of Heads of State summit was the anti-climax of the bloc’s 20th anniversary Kampala, Uganda | IAN KATUSIIME | On November 30, the East African Community (EAC) marks twenty years. A scheduled Heads of State Summit for the six EAC countries; Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi and South Sudan …
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