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There has been a new upsurge of piracy off Somalia, reports an agency associated with the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato).
UGANDA is to benefit from the World Bank's $2b (sh3,960b) facility for speeding up grants and long-term interest-free loans to help the world's poorest countries cope with the global financial crisis. Uganda is among the world's 78 poorest countries.
A BLEAK market for organic cotton is making it hard to pay farmers high prices as promised, an official of the International Cotton Advisory Committee (ICAC) has said.
THE Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) has frozen Kamwenge district local government accounts.
The Inspectorate of Government (IG) has suspended the appointment of Assoc. Prof. Jockey Nyakaana as Director of Quality Assurance, Makerere University, following reports that he plagiarised material from his former student, and complaints that he was irregularly selected for the post.
THE National Agricultural and Advisory Services (NAADS) has shifted focus from rural to urban farmers, the executive director, Dr. Silim Nandy, has said.
LOCAL governments have been cautioned to observe regulations concerning the annual budget.
THE parliamentary local government accounts committee has queried the extra sh2.56b spent by Pallisa district in the 2000/2001 financial year.
Three regional economic blocs have made a giant step towards the long-conceived goal of an African Economic Community, approving the expeditious establishment of an enlarged Free Trade Area (FTA) encompassing 26 Member States in three sub-regions.
Kenya and Uganda have announced new plans to build another railway line from Mombasa to the interior to cope with increased regional trade.
THE ministry of Energy's Ernest Rubondo, who is the commissioner for Petroleum Exploration and Production Department, says oil exploration and production activities will continue as planned despite the on-going global financial crisis.
THE price of petrol at filling stations in the city continues to remain high.
MORE than a year after Pioneer Easy Bus, the first company to operate a city bus service in Kampala, launched operations, the bus transport plan meant to decongest the city is yet to make any meaningful impact.
THE Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) has dismissed claims by a man who said its officials tortured him on suspicion that he had smuggled goods.
A bridge connecting Bisun-Juba slum to Tororo Municipality, that had become a death trap, has been repaired.
Ugandan flower export earnings have been sapped by the spills of the global financial crisis which has lead to the cancellation of contracts and prices nose diving.
Uganda's annual inflation eased to 14.2% in December from 14.6% in November due to slightly lower food prices, the government said recently.
More than a year after Pioneer Easy Bus, the first company to operate a city bus service in Kampala, launched operations, the bus transport plan meant to decongest the city is yet to make any meaningful impact.
KER Alur has organised a revenue collection course for Alur chiefs and clan heads. Alur prime minister (Jadipu) Prince Angala Opar Jalumvor Jalsonge, said the training would start soon.
THE National Roads Authority has withheld sh2b for two construction companies, which were hired to do repair works on the Kampala-Jinja highyway. The authority said the companies did substandard work.
THE year started with subdued activity on the Uganda Securities Exchange. On Monday (January 5), the first day of trading, only sh31.9m was traded and the trend continued on Tuesday with sh21.3m worth of shares changing hands.
FOUR soldiers were yesterday morning injured in a motor accident in Mabira Forest on the Kampala-Jinja highway. They were part of a security team returning to Kampala from Jinja where they had escorted a bullion car.
The Ethiopian sugar exporting sector is set to consolidate its share of the European sugar market following the revision of its quota to the market under a new initiative that encourages the increased importation of non-war materials from developing countries (LDCs).
The youngest commercial bank in Ethiopia, Oromia International Bank S.C (OIB) appointed Abe Sanu, the first youngest and short lived ex-President of Commercial Bank of Ethiopia (CBE) as its board advisor.
Fadumo Mohamed Hassan and her seven children are among the few families left in Yaaqshid district of north Mogadishu, after worsening conflict forced most residents to flee the capital.
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