Uganda’s financial industry risks being blacklisted by international systems for failure to put in place measures that can effectively prevent financial crimes like money laundering. This is a requirement by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), a global inter-governmental organisation on the initiative of the G7countries to develop policies to combat money laundering and terrorism…
Jailed lawyer Male Mabirizi has today failed to continue with the offensive communication case against him before Buganda Road Magistrates Court citing hunger and persecution in prison. This case was instituted against him by lawyer Robert Rutaro Muhairwe as a private prosecutor. The case was instituted a few days after the High Court Civil Division…
Days are numbered for football fans in Uganda to jubilate as the construction of multibillion and multi-purpose Nakivubo War Memorial Stadium, commonly referred to as Nakivubo Stadium, is swiftly progressing with the focus of being the leading stadium on the African continent. The mega arena is being developed by Uganda’s youngest tycoon and city Businessman…
Local investors in the country have continued to express their disappointments over the selective licencing of cannabis business that has been only allowed to be operated by foreign companies. In an investigative study and survey carried out by this website, it is reported and confirmed an Israeli company Together Pharma has already exported over 50 kilograms of…
SP Martial Tumusiime, the Greater Bushenyi Police spokesperson is being hunted on allegations of impregnating a suspect and neglecting a child. Jane Asiimwe Muhindo, the Bushenyi District Resident Commissioner says that SP Tumusiime impregnated Phoebe Katusiime, 31, a resident of Katanda Village, Katanda Sub County in Rubirizi District. Preliminary investigations indicate that Katusiime met Tumusiime…
Attorney General Kiryowa Kiwanuka yesterday revealed that the recommendations contained in the Parliament’s Commissions, Statutory Authorities and State Enterprises (Cosase) report, regarding management of the properties of the departed Asians, cannot be implemented under the current law. “It was very clear, the recommendations by Cosase that they were asking us to do; were not tenable…
Residents in Bugolobi have been advised to relocate to other places of abode instead of blocking development of businesses in the area by complaining about noise pollution from bars. It should be noted that Bugolobi, a very busy Kampala suburb, is lined with several bars, restaurants and other business ventures. We have established that the…
The East African Community (EAC)National Early Warning center in Uganda has been established at the Internal Security Organization (ISO) in Kampala. The Permanent Secretary Ministry of East Africa Community Affairs Ms. Edith Mwanje in her speech read by Assistant Commissioner Economic Affairs Annet Kenganzi at the launch today said the establishment and operationalization of the…
The Speaker of parliament, Anita Among has directed the Ministers for Health and finance to up the construction of Lubowa specialized hospital and procurement of a positron emission tomography (PET) scanner and report to house in two months. A positron emission tomography (PET) scan is an imaging test that can help reveal the metabolic or…
Burkina Faso’s former President Blaise Compaoré has received a life sentence in absentia for his role in the assassination of his charismatic predecessor, Thomas Sankara. Sankara, 37, was gunned down along with 12 others during the 1987 coup d’état that brought Compaoré to power. The pair had been close friends and had jointly seized power…
