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Farmers registered with the National Agricultural Advisory Services (NAADS) programme and entrepreneurs investing in the tractor service businesses will be facilitated to purchase tractors.
A SH50.9b agricultural project, which was supposed to change the livelihood of farmers in the West Nile region, has closed with little impact registered.
OVER 2,000 wheat and barley farmers in the Agoro hills in Kitgum district have said local traders offer low prices for their produce.
THE Gulu-Atiak road is to be upgraded to paved bitumen standard, Dan Alinange, the spokesman of the Uganda National Roads Authority, has said. Currently, the 74km-road located in Gulu and Amuru districts in northern Uganda, is a gravel road.
THE Public Procurement and Disposal of Public Assets Authority (PPDA) is to develop a new audit strategy, the public relations officer, Dorah Egunyu, has said She said the new system, once approved, would streamline follow-up mechanisms on audit reports issued to entities and address the implementation gap on audit recommendations made by PPDA.
THE Public Procurement and Disposal of Public Assets Authority (PPDA) has established an online data bank that will avail details of local and foreign firms doing or willing to do business with the Government.
A total of 516,890 pupils sat Primary Leaving Examinations (PLE) this year. This is the first time such a number has been recorded since Universal Primary Education was introduced 12 years ago.
I have read recent media praises for mobile money transfers and congratulate Safaricom, MTN and Zain for implementing the service in the East African region. Safaricom has taken it to a higher level by handling international money transfers.
THE Governor Bank of Uganda, Tumusiime Mutebile, has urged commercial banks to guard against fraud and forgeries by instituting effective risk management systems.
THE National Agricultural Advisory Services (NAADS) has been asked to design special programmes for people with physical and mental disabilities.
MPS on the public accounts committee yesterday warned that the Attorney General and the permanent secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs must answer for the loss of over $4.5m (sh8b) in advance payments to CHOGM hotels.
The Security Council today called on United Nations missions in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Central African Republic (CAR) and Sudan to coordinate strategies to protect civilians from the rebel Ugandan Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), which has killed, kidnapped and displaced thousands of people.
With northern Uganda at relative peace following years of war wreaked by Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army, LRA, activists are now worried about rising outbreaks of domestic violence.
Courts have trouble convicting corrupt bureaucrats because colleagues help destroy incriminating evidence in a "scratch my back, I will scratch yours" syndicate, a minister has said.
PARLIAMENT yesterday embarked on the long-awaited debate of the Land Amendment Bill with the House divided along party lines.
Human rights activists are calling on the International Criminal Court, ICC, to charge the Lord's Resistance Army leaders with a series of brutal crimes they are accused of perpetrating in the Democratic Republic of Congo, DRC.
Few incidences erode public faith in the country's law enforcement mechanisms than that of a law enforcer - an official in the judiciary at that - being caught bypassing the very laws he/she is mandated to uphold.
For decades, public universities have complained of insufficient funding and low tuition fees that compromise the quality of education. Even after the introduction of the private scheme, strikes sparked off by students or lecturers have become a trademark of most universities.
AFRICA faces a surge in cancer deaths unless action is taken in the next decade to stem the rising smoking levels. The American Cancer Society (ACS) estimates that the continent will double its tobacco use within 12 years if current trends continue.
Today, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted unanimously to approve the LRA Disarmament and Northern Uganda Recovery Act of 2009, bringing the legislation a step closer to reaching President Obama's desk. The bill is now eligible to be voted on by the full United States Senate, and has already picked up the support from a bipartisan set of 29 cosponsors.
The Board of Directors of the African Development Fund (ADF) approved on Tuesday, November 17, 2009 in Tunis, a UA 10.21 million (US$ 16.23 million) loan to finance a Rural Income and Employment Enhancement Project (RIEEP) in Uganda.
Sara Lee Limited has introduced special codes in Uganda to help track counterfeit Kiwi shoe polish in the country.
Parliament's ongoing debate on the Land (Amendment) Bill 2008 turned theatrical yesterday as several MPs pitched their thoughts on the controversial law through tribal, divisive and derogatory statements.
Two ministers yesterday clashed in Parliament over how to deal with local gin (waragi) packed in sachets, cited as the cause of over 50 deaths across the country.
The local council chairman of Wabigalo Project Zone who was arrested last week following the death of former army commander, Maj. Gen. James Kazini, has been released.
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