A delegation of European Union Ambassadors in Uganda led by Mr. Jan Sadek and his deputy Ralph Pine attended the joint press conference that was organised by the National Unity Platform (NUP) at Makerere-Kavule on Bombo Road on Friday, May 5th. 2023 On Friday 5th May 2023, a Delegation of the European Union (EU) to […]
The government of Uganda will give both private and government-aided secondary schools free student textbooks and teachers’ manuals beginning on Monday, May 29, 2023, continuing through Friday, August 25, 2023, according to the education ministry, for the new O’level curriculum. According to the plan, seven million textbooks and teacher aides for Senior Three and Senior […]
Boda Boda cyclists now pose by far the biggest security danger not just to the ordinary folks on the streets of Kampala but even to the mighty and the powerful key figures in the country. It is difficult to see how much this runaway boda boda industry, which now permeates every rural and urban corner […]
Real Stars Awards nominees of April 2023 have been released, the awards ceremony will be held at Lazio Restaurant in Naguru on Tuesday, May 9, 2023. These monthly awards are sponsored by Jude Colour Solutions and the betting company Fortebet. On Tuesday, May 9, 2023, the Fortebet Real Stars monthly awards presentation will honour the […]
Investors in developing countries are faced with political sovereign risks that can jeopardize the viability of their projects through policy changes, civil unrest, or asset expropriation. To mitigate these risks, investors negotiate project implementation agreements or equivalent with host states that include stabilization clauses, providing guarantees and protections. Additionally, investors may invest from countries with […]
A total of 10 more Ugandans were received by Uganda’s ambassador to Sudan H.E Ambassador Rashid Yahya Ssemuddu and his deputy Dickson Ogwang at Entebbe airport on Thursday evening 4th May 2023. H.E Rashid Yahaya, who is an Ambassador of Uganda to Sudan said this at Entebbe International Airport as he received a group of […]
The Ugandan government has proposed to borrow Shs852 billion to rehabilitate the Kampala-Malaba meter gauge railway, with the loan offer from the African Development Bank (ADB) and the Corporate Internationalisation Fund of Spain including a Shs221 billion grant. In a letter to Speaker Anita Among, Acting Minister of Finance, Planning and Economic Development Hon. Henry […]
The Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (Control) Act, 2015, which among other things forbade the sale and use of various narcotic drugs in the nation, has been abolished by the Constitutional Court in Kampala. “In the premises, I would declare the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (Control) Act, 2015 null and void for lack of […]
Senior medical officers in Uganda have threatened to lay down their tools to push for a pay rise and an acceleration in their promotion process to senior consultant level. The move follows a similar industrial action by Senior House Officers (SHO) and Medical Interns, who are seeking better salaries and deployment to different medical centres. […]
In the past few weeks, torrential downpours have left a path of devastation in their wake, breaking riverbanks and triggering devastating landslides, particularly in the western Ugandan region of Kisoro. Six people have died in the most recent landslides in Kisoro, according to the Uganda Red Cross Society, whose teams are performing relief work alongside […]
