November 08, 2022
East Africa: EAC Summit - Rwanda's Kagame Meets DRC Prime Minister
Rwanda's President Paul Kagame has met face to face with DRC Prime Minister Jean-Michel Sama Lukonde at a special EAC High Level Consultative meeting held Monday in Egypt at the… Read more »
November 04, 2022
Uganda: Parliament Approves U.S.$464 million Loan Request
Members of Parliament have approved a request by the government to borrow $464 million (about Shs1.7 trillion) to finance infrastructure and development needs of the budget despite… Read more »
Uganda: Address - Tshisekedi Says DRC Choosing Peace Over War
President Félix Antoine Tshisekedi Tshilombo has addressed the nation over the unrest in east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), and said despite disagreement… Read more »
November 02, 2022
Uganda: Museveni Must Sign GMO Law
Kenya's neighbours have begun reacting to its recent move to allow cultivation and importation of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) with moves that could lead to a slew of new… Read more »
Uganda: Govt Seeks to Borrow Over U.S.$790 Million to Finance Budget
The Finance State Minister, Henry Musasizi has asked Members of Parliament to approve up to Shs3.5 trillion to finance the Shs48.1 trillion budget. Read more »
October 26, 2022
Uganda: President Museveni Commissions Dei Biopharma Pharmaceutical and Vaccine Plant
The President of Uganda Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, on Friday commissioned the Dei Biopharma manufacturing facility in Matugga, near Kampala. Read more »
October 09, 2022
Uganda: Behind Speaker Among's Moves At EALA Elections
The declared results of the election of Uganda's representatives in the East African Legislative Assembly (EALA) held on Sept.29, show the candidates polled as follows: Rose Akol… Read more »
October 02, 2022
Uganda: NSSF Stuck Over 'Orders From Above'
In September President Museveni launched a new housing estate constructed by the National Social Security Fund (NSSF) in Lubowa, outside Kampala. The $73m estate has 370 housing… Read more »
September 30, 2022
Uganda: Parliament Sets Tough Penalties for Human Organ Trade
Parliament has passed the Uganda Human Organ Donation and Transplant Bill, 2022 setting tough penalties for dealing in human organs for commercial purposes. Read more »
September 28, 2022
Uganda: Govt to Regulate District, City Property Sharing
The Ministry of Local Government is finalizing the preparation of regulations to facilitate sharing of property between new cities and districts from which the cities were created. Read more »
Africa: African Union Launches Push for Universal Ratification of Anti-Graft Convention
The African Union Advisory Board on Corruption (AUABC), established in 2009 to invigorate the fight against corruption, has been lobbying countries to ratify its convention to… Read more »
Uganda: Power Outages in West Nile Irk MPs
Members of Parliament on the Public Accounts Committee (Central) are irked by the power outages in West Nile that have adversely affected the smooth running of Muni University in… Read more »
August 31, 2022
Uganda: Parliament Scraps Excise Duty On Confectionaries
MPs have passed the Excise Duty (Amendment) Bill, 2022 scrapping taxes on sugar confectionaries, sweets, gums, and chocolates. Read more »
August 29, 2022
Uganda: Gen. Elly Tumwine, NRA Historical and Ex-Minister of Security, Dies At 68
RO/00023 Gen. Elly Tumwine who succumbed to cancer on Aug. 25 served the country in many capacities. Tumwine was taken ill in Nairobi weeks ago after his condition deteriorated. Read more »
September 26, 2022
Uganda: Opposition Kicks Off Consultations On Copyright Law
Opposition MPs have started holding stakeholder engagements with a view of improving a draft private Members' Bill that seeks to amend the 2006 Copyright and Neighbouring Rights… Read more »
September 22, 2022
Uganda: Parliament to Budget for Contingency Fund to Curb Supplementaries
Legislators have committed to budget for a contingency fund in the next budget cycle after it was left out in the Financial Year 2022/2023 budget. Read more »
August 30, 2022
Tanzania: Uganda and Tanzania Renew Commitment to Secure Eacop
Senior officials from Uganda's petroleum authority (PAU) and Tanzania's energy and water utilities regulatory authority (EWURA)--the agencies that have regulatory powers over the… Read more »
September 19, 2022
Uganda: Inside Museveni's Private Favours
On August 15th, President Yoweri Museveni wrote the prime minister an instruction titled "Support of Local Companies in the Construction Sector". He said he has met a group of very… Read more »
Uganda: Europe Bias Against EACOP
Days after the European Union passed a resolution condemning ongoing investment in fossil fuels in Uganda, the basis for the censure remains unclear. Read more »
September 15, 2022
Uganda: State of Uganda-Rwanda Border Town Shocks Ministers
Top cabinet ministers have been shocked at the rotting state of Uganda's newly constructed one-stop border post of Katuna while the Rwanda side Gatuna is sparkling and meticulously… Read more »
September 13, 2022
Uganda: Don't Involve Me in Your Internal Issues, Museveni Says After 'Toboa' Chants
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has told Kenyans not to involve him in their internal affairs. Read more »
September 07, 2022
Uganda: Prime Minister - Nyege Nyege Will Go Ahead
The Prime Minister Robinah Nabbanja has overruled Parliament, and given organisers of the Nyege Nyege festival a green light for it to go ahead as planned September 15th to 18th,… Read more »
September 01, 2022
Uganda: MPs Call a Halt to School Fees Increment
Members of Parliament on the Committee on Education and Sports want the line ministry to develop a tuition policy for all schools to ease the pressure of school fees rates on… Read more »
August 30, 2022
Uganda: Nup to Shun Forthcoming EALA Elections
The Leader of the Opposition in Parliament, Mathias Mpuuga, has announced the National Unity Platform-NUP's decision to shun the forthcoming elections of the East African… Read more »
August 24, 2022
Uganda: Govt Alters Pdm Payouts, Eyes Supplementary
The Minister of State for Finance, Planning and Economic Development (Planning), Amos Lugoloobi, has said that government will now pay the Parish Development Model (PDM) monies in… Read more »