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Energy & Mining
Museveni’s input included in Minerals Bill, licenses to be based on capital investment
KAMPALA– The Members of Parliament have reconsidered and passed the Mining and Minerals Bill 2022 with amendments to protect artisan miners and to elaborate the licensing requirement for mining in Uganda. The…
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News
EPRC researcher wins Analyst Forecast of the Year 2021 Award
KAMPALA– Corti Paul Lakuma, the Economic Policy Research Centre [ EPRC ] research fellow and Head of Macro Department, is the overall best Uganda economics analyst forecaster of the year 2021. The…
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UCDA and PSFU partner to boost coffee subsector
KAMPALA – Uganda Coffee Development Authority [UCDA] and the Private Sector Foundation Uganda [ PSFU ] have signed a memorandum of cooperation aimed at growing the country’s coffee sector. Dr. Emmanuel Iyamulemye,…
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Africa
Global animal welfare charity commends Nigeria’s proposed ban on donkey slaughter
LAGOS– The world’s largest equine charity, The Donkey Sanctuary, has welcomed moves by the Nigerian government toward an outright ban on the slaughter of donkeys as well as the export of their…
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Cooperatives & Communities
FSD Africa, Rabobank to fund African small-scale farmers with loans for carbon credits
NAIROBI– Financial Sector Deepening Africa [FSD Africa] and Rabobank ACORN / Rabo Foundation have launched their collaboration in helping 3,000-5, 000 small-scale farmers with their transition to agroforestry, a sustainable and climate…
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International tourism consolidates strong recovery amidst growing challenges
MADRID-International tourism continues to show signs of a strong and steady recovery from the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic despite significant mounting economic and geopolitical challenges. According to the latest United Nations…
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Finance & Banking
Standard Chartered reports record US$ 581mln operating profits in Africa and Middle East
DUBAI-Standard Chartered PLC [the Group], with operations in Uganda, has released its financial results for the first half of the year ending 30 June 2022, earning good profits. In the Africa and…
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MPs quiz Masaka hospital boss over Shs 2.5bln inflated contract
KAMPALA-Legislators on Parliament’s Committee on Public Accounts-Central Government have tasked the former director of Masaka Regional Referral Hospital, Dr Nathan Onyachi to explain why he spent an extra Shs Shs2.5 billion not…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Legislators want prisoners to get better pay for labour
KAMPALA– Members of Parliament on the Committee on Human Rights are not happy with the little money paid to the prisoners after they have offered hard labour outside the correctional centres. The…
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Africa
AEO 2022: AfDB and IMF experts stress urgency for climate financing for Africa
African Development Bank [AfDB] and International Monetary Fund [IMF] experts have stressed the urgency of mobilising climate financing for Africa during a panel discussion on the African Development Bank’s 2022 African Economic…
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