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Go & Make Money: Gender Ministry Approves Premier Recruitment To Export Over 200 Workers

The Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development has approved Premier Recruitment Limited’s request to export labour hence providing employment opportunities to Ugandans who want to work abroad. According to a letter from Lawrence Egulu, on behalf of the ministry’s permanent secretary,

January 29, 2021

Business

Shame As Govt Asks External Labour Recruitment Companies to Fund Uganda Embassy in Saudi to Handle Distressed Migrant Workers

Anger is boiling up among the external recruitment agencies in Uganda after the government asked them to help fund the cash trapped Uganda Embassy in Saudi Arabia to help handle the distressed migrant workers. According to Uganda Association of External Recruitment Agencies

January 27, 2021

Crime·Politics

‘We Will Crush You’- Museveni Warns Against Post-Election Violence

The newly elected President of Uganda Yoweri Tibuhaburwa Kaguta Museveni has warned Ugandans against engaging in violence, as discontent continues over the country’s electoral process. There has been agitation in Uganda and elsewhere about the outcome of the election which gave Museveni,

January 27, 2021

Business

Parliament Suspicious Of Continuous BoU Recapitalization

The chairperson of Finance Committee of Parliament Hon. Henry Musasizi is suspicious that the government could be siphoning funds meant for the recapitalization of the Central Bank. He disclosed his suspicions during a meeting between legislators on the Budget Committee, officials from

January 27, 2021

Politics

A Pleasant Welcome Of Shs 300m Awaits Each Freshly Elected & Re-elected Member Of Uganda’s Parliament Amidst Covid-19 Economic Hardship

The Minister of Finance Matia Kasaija is hunting for sh165bn to avail Parliament a budget for MPs motor vehicle allowances in the 11th Parliament. Divided by about 520 MPs, each is expected to pocket closet to sh320million in vehicle allowances. Minister Kasaija said

January 27, 2021

Trending·Uganda

Uganda Plans To Borrow Over Shs10.3 Trillion From External Lenders As Debt Nears Crisis Level

The Government of Uganda is planning to borrow over Shs10.3trillion from external lenders in the FY2021/22 that starts in July. This website can confirm that according to the latest Budget Framework Paper, maintaining the country’s momentum towards the debt crisis level, the

January 26, 2021

Politics

EU, US Call For Probe Into Uganda Election Violence As Bobi Wine Remains Under House Arrest

The European Union has joined a growing number of international voices calling for a probe into Ugandan election abuses and violence that left more than 40 people dead in the lead up to the polls. Opposition candidates were harassed by security forces,

January 21, 2021

Politics

Minister Kutesa-Internet Shutdown Prevented Violence

The Uganda Foreign Affairs Minister Sam Kutesa has revealed that internet shutdown by the government during the just concluded presidential and parliamentary elections helped to prevent the incitement of violence and use of malicious language. The minister made remarks while presenting a

January 21, 2021

Crime

Grief As Missing NUP Supporter Is Found Dead

Rogers Ssemakula, one of the National Unity Platform (NUP) supporters and resident of Kabembe in Kyampisi Sub County in Mukono district who went missing on the eve of the presidential and parliamentary elections, has been found dead. His body was recovered from

January 21, 2021

Hot Take

Amnesty International Joins Push To Free Presidential Runner Robert Kyagulanyi

The Ugandan authorities must immediately lift the police and military siege of opposition leader Robert Kyagulanyi’s home and release him and his wife Barbara Itungo Amnesty International said as the post-election blockade entered its 7th day. Robert Kyagulanyi, also known as Bobi

January 21, 2021

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