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Politics
MPs agree with Museveni, scrap tax on confectionaries
MPs have passed the Excise Duty [Amendment] Bill, 2022 scrapping taxes on sugar confectionaries, sweets, gums, and chocolates. The Bill was earlier passed in March 2022 but returned to Parliament for reconsideration…
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News
Uganda’s debt distress stresses MPs
KAMPALA– Parliament has asked government to develop mechanisms that will ensure the country returns to a low risk of debt distress. During plenary on Tuesday, MPs approved two reports of the Committee…
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Finance & Banking
Standard Chartered Bank launches Shs 970mln Youth in Agribusiness Project in Lira
LIRA-Standard Chartered Bank and Cordaid, in partnership with Youth Business International [YBI], have launched ‘Youth in Agribusiness Project’ funded by Standard Chartered Foundation to support young entrepreneurs to revive, strengthen, and build…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Divisive VINCI coffee deal: Court to deliver ruling in December
KAMPALA-The High Court in Kampala has set December 15, 2022, to deliver a ruling in a case filed by two Kampala lawyers who dragged government to court over the controversial coffee deal…
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News
Preparations in high gear for 2nd East African Regional Tourism Expo in Burundi
The East African Community [EAC] will hold the 2nd EAC Regional Tourism EXPO [EARTE’22] in Bujumbura, Burundi from September 23-30, 2022. According to the organisers, the main objective of the EXPO is…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Egypt ready to host 13th Africa Ministerial Cooperative Conference
KAMPALA-Egypt is ready to host the 13th Africa Ministerial Cooperative Conference [AMCOO] in Cairo, according to International Cooperative Alliance- Africa [ICA-Africa]. Some of the invitations to delegates are being sent online for…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Best of the Pearl Competition to raise profile of Uganda Coffee globally
KAMPALA– The Uganda Coffee Development [UCDA] is receiving final samples for the second edition of the Best of the Pearl Robusta competition 2022. The deadline for submission is August 19, 2022. The…
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Development
MPs ask gov’t to cut age of SAGE beneficiaries
KAMPALA-Members of Parliament want government to reduce the age of beneficiaries of the Social Assistance Grant Empowerment [SAGE] from 80 years to 70 years. This was contained in the report of the…
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Agriculture
Ugandan Okori appointed new RUFORUM Executive Secretary
Professor Theresia Nkuo-Akenji, the Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture [RUFORUM] Board Chair and Vice Chancellor University of Bamenda in Cameroon, has announced the appointment of Dr. Patrick Okori as…
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Finance & Banking
Absa Africa Financial Markets Index Launch 2022 set for October
LONDON- The launch of Absa Africa Financial Markets Index 2022 is slated for October 13, 2022, according to the Official Monetary Financial Institution Forum [OMFIF], the producers of the index. Since its…
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