Legal
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PWDs seek approval to form separate SACCOs to benefit from PDM
NEBBI, November 15, 2024 – Persons Living with Disabilities [ PWDs ] in Nebbi district are calling on the government to allow them to form their own separate Parish Development Model Savings…
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Minister Magyezi orders arrest of PDM extortionists
MASINDI, November 14, 2024 – The Minister of Local Government, Raphael Magyezi, has instructed security officials in Masindi, led by the Masindi Resident District Commissioner [RDC] Darius Nandinda, to arrest individuals extorting…
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UCDA tasked to address delays in coffee farmer registration in Southwestern Uganda
MBARARA CITY, November 11, 2024 – Officials and farmers in Southwestern Uganda have expressed concerns over the delayed registration of coffee farmers by the Uganda Coffee Development Authority [ UCDA ], which…
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Pakwach: Lake Albert floods submerge homes and commercial buildings
PAKWACH, November 11, 2024 — Flooding caused by rising water levels in Lake Albert has submerged homes and commercial buildings in Panyimur Town Council, Pakwach district, leaving residents and business owners in…
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Ateker border community leaders sign resolutions to enhance peaceful co-existence
MOROTO, November 5, 2024 — The Leaders of the Ateker border communities comprising Kenya’s Turkana, Uganda’s Karimojong, and South Sudan’s Toposa and Didinga, recently signed a joint report resolving to foster peaceful…
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Trade ministry official implicated in misappropriation of over Shs 9.6bln for Rwampara cooperative
RWAMPARA, November 5, 2024 – A new investigative report has implicated the Registrar of Cooperatives, Bob Barigye Bariyo, for conspiring with the cooperative’s board members to embezzle over Shs 9.6 billion that…
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Bunyoro Kitara Kingdom urges gov’t not to abolish UCDA
HOIMA, November 4, 2024 — Bunyoro Kitara Kingdom [BKK] Prime Minister Andrew Byakutaga has called on the government to withdraw the bill proposing the phasing out of the Uganda Coffee Development Authority…
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“We are working for the socio-economic transformation of Ugandans”- Museveni assures NRM MPs
GOMBA, November 3, 2024 — President Yoweri Museveni has assured the National Resistance Movement [NRM] Parliamentary Caucus that since coming to power in 1986, his government has been working for the socio-economic…
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Dissolving UCDA is a strategic blunder for gov’t & political suicide for MPs
BUHWEJU, October 31, 2024 — For the second time this year, the Ugandan Parliament has been forced to deliberate on the Uganda Coffee Development Bill 2024 — the Bill that seeks to…
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Don’t dissolve UCDA, strengthen it
KAMPALA, October 30, 2024 — There are indeed many things we do not understand about rationalisation. My understanding of “Rationalisation” of government agencies is to cut costs. Yet when we proposed Uganda…
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