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There was chaos at Wakiso Town council offices when councillors attempted to evict the Town Clerk, Livingstone Kasibante for alleged failure to implement lawful council decisions. During a council sitting yesterday the councillors turned violent, saying that ever since they were sworn in, they have never received the instrument of power to execute their mandate. [...]
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The Ministry of Foreign Affairs says the government has no workable solution as yet for Ugandans stuck in Ukraine. The number of Ugandans stuck in Ukraine remains unknown. In a statement dated February 28, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs says it is "closely following the evolving situation in Ukraine and specifically the conditions of Ugandan [...]
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More than 6000 Congolese nationals have so far crossed into Uganda since Uganda People's Defence Forces-UPDF and the Congolese army launched an offensive against the rebel Allied Democratic Forces. Hedwig Arinitwe, the acting commandant of Bubukwanga refugee transit centre in Bundibugyo district says the asylum seekers are from North Kivu in the DRC. The asylum [...]
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Kampala Capital City Authority-KCCA made over 1 billion shillings worth of irregular payments in the year ending June 2021. According to the Auditor General's report, KCCA spent more than 1.3 billion Shillings in overpayments and other irregular payments on different construction projects mostly roads funded under the Kampala Institutional Infrastructure Development Project II (KIIDP II). [...]
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Accounting officers in Central and Local Governments face sanctions for failure to utilize funds earmarked for staff recruitment. The Permanent Secretary of Ministry of Finance Ramathan Ggoobi, says that he has continuously observed that funds earmarked for staff recruitment are returned to the consolidated fund at end of the financial year resulting from delayed staff [...]
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The State Minister for Higher Education John Chrysostom Muyingo has cautioned parents against keeping school-going children at home. Muyingo says that those who fail to heed, risk arrest - Muyingo says he has received reports of many parents who are still failing to return children to school reportedly due to lack of school fees and [...]
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The Auditor-General has observed the unsatisfactory utilisation of the Kalule Uganda Women Entrepreneurship Programme-UWEP following a value for money audit. The Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development is implementing UWEP. It is an initiative of the Government aimed at empowering women to improve their income levels and contribution to economic development. In the past [...]
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Opposition MPs have resolved to develop a framework to improve their performance in parliament. The 109 legislators have been clustered in different sector-based groups where each MP can build capacity and debate from an informed point of view. This was part of the resolutions at the three-day retreat of Opposition MPs held at Imperial Botanical [...]
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Today the Court of Appeal will commence the conferencing for the hearing of 81 election appeals. Conferencing is where lawyers of both parties agree on issues to be determined by court before the case file is forwarded to a panel of three justices for hearing. The Court of Appeal Registrar, Susan Kanyange will lead a [...]
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The government has commissioned road projects connecting Kasese District to Katunguru, an area on the southern banks of the Kazinga Channel, which links Lake George with Lake Edward. The road projects include the 58 kilometres of a stretch that starts at Hima Town and traverses through Kasese Municipality, Queen Elizabeth National Park and ends at [...]
