Fuel
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Cooperatives & Communities
High fuel prices threaten Kasese fishing communities
KASESE – As fuel prices continue to soar, fishermen at Kahendero landing site in Kasese district, western Uganda are being hit hard as some have been forced out of the business. According…
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News
High fuel prices: Ssewungu insists ministers Kasaija, Nankabirwa must appear before MPs
KAMPALA– Kalungu East Legislator, Joseph Ssewungu Gonzaga has criticised Finance Minister Matia Kasaija and his counterpart of Energy and Mineral Development, Ruth Nankabirwa for failure to appear before the committee and explain…
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Development
Legislators mesmerised by factory extracting fuel from cassava
NWOYA– Members of the Parliamentary Committee on Trade, Tourism and Industry have commended Bukona Agro Processors Ltd, a local factory in Nwoya district that is manufacturing cooking fuel out of cassava. The…
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Cooperatives & Communities
DR Congo and Uganda security officials meet over cross-border smuggling
NEBBI- Ugandan security officials in Nebbi district and their counterparts from DR-Congo’s Mahagi Territory, in Eastern Ituri Province met on Tuesday to discuss the rise in the smuggling of goods between the…
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Cooperatives & Communities
High fuel prices hit Gulu farmers hard as some fail to open up farmlands
GULU– High prices of fuel have forced farmers in Gulu district to stop the use of tractors in the opening of their farmlands as they prepare for the new planting season. Currently,…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Businessman Arrested For Oil Roads Fuel Theft
KIKUUBE – Ronald Amanya, a spare parts dealer in Hoima town, has been arrested with 40 jerry cans of fuel in a sweeping police crackdown on a gang for fuel theft from…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Fuel Theft Derails Oil Roads Construction
KIKUUBE – A steep rise in the theft of cement and hundreds of litres of fuel from Chinese road contractor; China Railway Seventh Group (CRSG) threatens to derail completion of the on-going…
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