Category: Uganda
Geeska Afrika Year End Analysis
December 29, 2015 – Public Diplomacy and Regional Stability Initiatives News. Geeska Afrika year end analysis revealed topics that our readers cared about the most over the past year. Clear trends can be traced in what have been the most important stories like trade finance in the Horn of African countries; Somalia, Ethiopia, Eritrea, and…
Uganda: Record 500,000 Refugees and Asylum-Seekers
KAMPALA (HAN) December 21, 2015 – Public Diplomacy and Regional Stability Initiatives News. More than half a million people fleeing violence and human rights abuses, mostly from South Sudan, Burundi and the Democratic Republic of Congo, have now found protection and safety in Uganda. By early December, Uganda had become home to almost 511,000 refugees and…
Uganda: Key Policy Rate Maintained at 17%
KAMPALA (HAN) December 16, 2015 – Public Diplomacy and Regional Stability Initiatives News. Uganda has maintained its policy rate at 17 per cent in a bid to control spending by households and businesses, rein in inflation and stabilise the forex market. The Bank of Uganda (BoU) said the increase in its benchmark lending rate to commercial…
Uganda: Global Meeting on River Blindness
KAMPALA (HAN) December 15, 2015 – Public Diplomacy and Regional Stability Initiatives News. Uganda has hosted the 21st session of the Joint Action Forum (JAF) on Onchocerciasis (river blindness) to deliberate on the progress made by African Countries in the road to elimination of the disease on the continent. The conference is taking place at Speke…
Ugandan Court Penalises MTN for Malicious Business Conduct
KAMPALA (HAN) November 20, 2015. Public Diplomacy & regional Security. Malicious, egregious, vindictive, oppressive and high-handedness. These are some of the words used by High Court Judge Henry Peter Adonyo to describe the conduct of MTN Uganda towards EzeeMoney. On November 6, MTN Uganda, the largest telecom company in Uganda, was found guilty of aggressively adopting…
Uganda’s Pearl Dairy to Build Plant in Kenya
KAMPALA (HAN) November 16, 2015. Public Diplomacy & regional Security. Uganda-based Pearl Dairy Farms Limited is set to build a production and repackaging plant in Nairobi’s Industrial Area as it moves to grow its market share in Kenya. The company, the agricultural arm of the Midland Group, currently serves the local market with ghee, butter and…
Uganda Amends Law to Sanction Return of Supplementary Budgets
KAMPALA (HAN) November 14, 2015. Public Diplomacy & regional Security. Uganda’s parliament has finally amended the Public Finance Management Act (PFMA), sanctioning a return of supplementary budgets. Passed just over seven months ago, the PFMA was seen as a progressive piece of legislation that would ensure financial discipline and safeguard resources allocated to key sectors such as…
Uganda's President Museveni Begins Campaigning (VIDEO)
Kampala (HAN) November 11, 2015. Public Diplomacy & regional Security. Campaigning has gotten under way in Uganda ahead of next year’s presidential elections. Incumbent President Yoweri Museveni is on the first leg of his campaign -starting with a rally where he began a war that brought him into power in 1986. Many of the region’s veterans…
Israeli Court Clears Way to Force Asylum Seekers to Resettle
Kampala (HAN) November 10, 2015. Public Diplomacy & regional Security. An Israeli court has denied a petition challenging the detention of asylum seekers who do not wish to be resettled in Uganda or Rwanda. The government has ordered the migrants to be resettled there or be detained in Israel indefinitely. Still, the Be’er Sheva District Court…
New Treatment Slows an Epidemic of Sleeping Sickness
KAMPALA (HAN) November 10, 2015. Public Diplomacy & regional Security. By: DONALD G. McNEIL Jr. Cases of human sleeping sickness have fallen greatly in parts of rural Uganda where cattle were given an experimental dual treatment that killed both the parasites that cause the disease and the flies that carry them, researchers in Scotland said Monday. British…
