Category: Uganda

  • Two Ugandan traders killed in South Sudan

    Two Ugandan traders killed in South Sudan

    Two Ugandan traders working in South Sudan were abducted and later killed by unidentified South Sudanese armed assailants. The third Ugandan escaped narrowly. The deceased have been identified as Kamaadi Mayende and Hamed Ssebagala. The duo, alongside a one Peter Tusiime who managed to escape, were abducted at 8:00pm on Sunday, near the South Sudan…

  • Uganda records 146 new COVID-19 cases, two new deaths

    Uganda records 146 new COVID-19 cases, two new deaths

    Uganda’s Ministry of Health on Sunday reported 146 new coronavirus cases raising the national total to 8,808. Majority of the new cases (83) were reported from contacts and alerts with Masaka district accounting for most of them (61 or about 74 percent) followed by the capital Kampala which had 11 (about 13 percent). The remaining…

  • Uganda: Dr Kizza Besigye discredited homeschooling program

    Uganda: Dr Kizza Besigye discredited homeschooling program

    Kampala:  Former presidential candidate Dr Kizza Besigye has discredited the idea of asking parents to conduct a homeschooling program with their children saying that such policymakers are totally detached from the reality about the status of Uganda’s homesteads. Schools across the country were closed in March 2020 as a measure to reduce concentration centres and…

  • Uganda: Race ahead to forge a single stock market

    Uganda: Race ahead to forge a single stock market

    Three East African countries have joined forces to implement a World Bank-funded financial project that aims to connect regional stock markets electronically. This means they can operate as a single market with a view of reducing the cost and time of trading in shares of companies listed on markets across the borders. Uganda, Rwanda and…

  • Uganda’s elite crisis

    Uganda’s elite crisis

    THE LAST WORD | ANDREW M. MWENDA | Opposition leader Dr. Kizza Besigye has argued that elites in Uganda are the most useless group in the country. Let us test this thesis and seek to prove what it reveals. The beginning point is poverty statistics from our Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS) 2018. We know that…

  • Ebola response bolsters Uganda’s COVID-19 fight

    Ebola response bolsters Uganda’s COVID-19 fight

    When much of the world was waking up to the enormous implications of a global pandemic, Uganda was already a step ahead thanks to Ebola. While COVID-19 has its unique challenges, such as quick spread, dealing with it requires the type of response Uganda has been practising over the years with the Ebola threat, “Uganda…

  • Uganda Embassy Land in Addis Ababa Grabbed

    Uganda Embassy Land in Addis Ababa Grabbed

    The Uganda Embassy land in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia has been encroached on, according to an internal audit by the ministry of Finance. Uganda was supposed to build its Embassy house and a chancery on the land to reduce expenditure on the rent. Hussein Isingoma, the acting director forensic and risk advisory services at the ministry,…

  • Bobi Wine Vs. Uganda’s ‘Dictator’: It’s ‘Dangerous To Sit Down And Resign To Fate’

    Bobi Wine Vs. Uganda’s ‘Dictator’: It’s ‘Dangerous To Sit Down And Resign To Fate’

    Bobi Wine, Uganda’s pop singer-turned-politician, is one of the most vocal challengers of his country’s longtime president, Yoweri Museveni. Last summer, Wine was arrested and says he was beaten and tortured by presidential guards after clashes between opposition supporters and supporters of Uganda’s ruling party. “I’m supposed to be a dead man,” he told NPR in September of…

  • Museveni gets key party nod to seek re-election in 2021

    Museveni gets key party nod to seek re-election in 2021

    Uganda’s ruling party’s top most organ, the Central Executive Committee (CEC), has endorsed President Yoweri Museveni as its presidential candidate for the 2021 polls. The decision, which in theory is still subject to approval by other National Resistance Movement (NRM) organs, jumpstarts an internal flagbearer selection process and gives the incumbent a political shot in…

  • UGANDA TO RAISE FUNDS BY BONDS THROUGH MOBILE PHONES

    UGANDA TO RAISE FUNDS BY BONDS THROUGH MOBILE PHONES

    Ugandans can now purchase government securities through a mobile money platform. This was approved during a cabinet meeting on Monday. The rationale is to reduce over-dependence on commercial banks and institutional investors for funding. The government believes that this would increase savings and investment which would, in turn, increase economic growth. Government security is a bond…

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