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UWA Ranger Agaba Promoted,Gets A Medal For Saving Lives In Bundibugyo Floods
Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA) ranger whose photos went viral as he saved a number of women and children from Bundibugyo floods has been awarded with a medal at the 34th NRM Liberation Day celebrations in Ibanda District. Hannington Agaba was among the 95 people rewarded in honor of their heroic acts towards the development, peace…
UWA Boss Reshuffles Over 100 Staff, Suspends 6 Over Fraud, Money Swindling
Over 6 employees of Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA)’s reservation and booking section have been suspended over alleged fraudulent practices. TheCapitaltimes has established that majority of the culprits, ironically, are ladies and according to a credible source inside UWA insiders, the alledged culprits will be investigated (while on suspension) for conniving with private tour operators to…
UWA Boss Mugisa Grilled For Causing Loss Of 180M In Contracting Firm
Members of Parliament sitting on the Committee on Commissions, Statutory Authorities and State Enterprises (COSASE) have interrogated Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA) officials regarding a loss of Shs180 million incurred in a contract related to the gorilla permit system. The inquiry was prompted by revelations from the December 2023 Auditor General’s report, highlighting discrepancies in a…
UWA Backs Africa Kwetu Fuel Economy Tour 2020
Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA) has authorized the organisers of the Africa Kwetu Fuel Economy Tour in the western districts of Uganda due November 20-22, 2020 ago ahead. Uganda Wildlife Authority official Steven Masaba confirmed the development at a press briefing held on Tuesday 17, 2020 at Hotel Triangle on Buganda Road in Kampala. “We shall…
UTB Unveils Covid-19 Digital Led Domestic Tourism Recovery Campaign
Uganda Tourism Board has launched a domestic tourism campaign dubbed ‘Take on the Pearl’ as a mechanism to revamp sector growth that has been battered by COVID-19 lockdown. “The pandemic has created an opportunity for us to look inwards and therefore travel our country. It is a delight to launch this domestic tourism campaign today…
Use Of Pesticides On Locusts Worries MPs
The use of pesticides in bid to fight the growing swarm of locusts in the eastern part of the country has been questioned by parliamentarians. This followed presentation of an update on efforts to combat the desert locusts. The update was presented by the Minister of State for Agriculture, Hon Aggrey Bagiire on Wednesday, 26…
USA Will Continue Active Security Dialogue With Uganda Govt– Ambassador Brown
On 15th December 2021, according to our media source, Natalie E. Brown the Ambassador of the United States (US) Mission in Uganda, while addressing journalists on the Embassy’s 2021 report to the Ugandans that explains the U.S partnership and assistance for the past one year in areas of health, education, democratic values among others. She…
USA Cuts Aid To Uganda Govt Officials
The US Embassy in Uganda has announced a blackout on per diem allowances to Ugandan government officials who attend events it has organized or US agencies. In a November 12 letter to the Prime Minister Ruhakana Rugunda, Deborah Malac, the US Ambassador to Uganda, said starting January 2020 the Uganda government should ensure that it…
USA Constructs Medical Stores For Dying UPDF Soldiers
The Ambassador of the United States of America to Uganda Her Excellence Deborah Malac, has handed over the prefabricated medicine stores to the UPDF 1infantry Division headquarters at Kakiri Wakiso district. In a colorful ceremony, spiced by the UPDF brass band, keys to 13 other stores were handed over to Chief Administration Officers of the…
USA Amb.Malac Applauds M7,Gen.Muhoozi For Creating Peace And Security
While bidding farewell to different Government agencies, the out going USA Ambassador to Uganda H.E Ambassador Deborah Malac has applauded the able leadership of president Yoweri Kaguta Museveni ,who is the commander in chief alongside chief of defence forces Gen.David Muhoozi and entire Uganda Peoples Defence Forces (UPDF) family for the different roles that are…