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House passes Public Service Pension Fund Bill, 2024
KAMPALA, February 26, 2025 –– Parliament has passed the Public Service Pension Fund Bill, 2024. The Bill, if signed into law by President Yoweri Museveni, will make public servants in the country…
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Parliament queries last minute loan request for UMEME buyout
KAMPALA, February 26, 2025 – Members of Parliament [MPs] on the Committee of National Economy have queried government’s ‘last minute’ request for a US$ 190 million loan to finance the UMEME buyout…
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OWC to donate 2.5mln coffee seedlings to creative artists
GULU CITY, February 26, 2025 – The WALK Creative Arts Foundation is set to receive 2.5 million coffee seedlings from Operation Wealth Creation [OWC] to be distributed to creative artists in Northern…
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AfDB and Standard Bank unite to support SMMEs and boost trade
JOHANNESBURG, February 26, 2025 — The African Development Bank Group [AfDB] and Standard Bank Group [SBG] on Monday signed a landmark financial agreement to enhance funding for small, medium, and micro enterprises…
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Interview: ILO’s Simel Esim on the power of cooperatives to drive social justice
BRUSSELS, February 25, 2025: Ahead of World Social Justice Day that was celebrated on February 2025, officials from the International Cooperative Alliance [ICA] spoke with Simel Esim, Head of the International Labour…
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National IDs recovered from money lenders in Mbarara City
MBARARA CITY, February 25, 2025 – Mbarara City Resident City Commissioner [RCC], Catherine Helen Kamwine has recovered around 10 national identity cards that had been confiscated by money lenders operating in the…
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Masindi sugarcane farmers oppose closure of weighbridges
MASINDI, February 25, 2025 –– The Ugandan government has closed sugarcane weighbridges in Masindi following allegations of poaching by some sugar millers in the district. The directive was issued days ago by…
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Agriculturalist pushes for clonal Robusta coffee growing in Lango Subregion
LIRA City, February 25, 2025 – Andrew Okello Awany, the former Coordinator of the now-defunct Uganda Coffee Development Authority [UCDA] for the Lango Subregion, is advocating for the phasing out of Robusta…
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Buliisa district decries shortage of teachers
BULIISA, February 25, 2025 –– Authorities in Buliisa district have called on government to lift a ban recruitment of more teachers, saying it would address the ongoing shortage in the district. The…
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Denmark donates solar-powered irrigation facility to Buganda Kingdom
SEMBABULE, February 24, 2025 – The Danish Government, through the DANIDA Green Business Partnership Programme, has constructed a solar-powered irrigation facility to help smallholder farmers in Buganda Kingdom to mitigate the effects…
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