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Parliament’s Budget Committee has rejected a request for Shs10 billion to construct the National Planning Authority House, urging government to first utilise the former Bwebajja Hotel it acquired to house its entities renting private premises. While scrutinising the budget allocations to the Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development for the 2024/2025 financial year, MPs expressed concern that money was allocated to refurbish the Bwebajja facility along Entebbe Road to […]

The African Energy Chamber (https://EnergyChamber.org) is happy to announce the appointment of Tony B. Moyo as a Director within its ranks. Tony brings a wealth of experience and a proven track record in senior roles, servicing clients over many decades in the oil and gas industry, strengthening the team at the African Energy Chamber for an exciting era of growth and innovation. Tony will be leading several initiatives at the […]

The Committee on Defence and Internal Affairs has indicated that the Uganda Prisons Service (UPS) requires Shs79.973 billion to cater for outstanding arrears for prisoners’ feeding accrued by Financial Year 2023/2024. Committee chairperson Hon. Wilson Kajwengye, said this while presenting a report on the National Budget Framework Paper for Financial Year 2024/2025, before the Budget Committee of Parliament on Wednesday, 17 January 2024. According to the committee report, the daily […]

The Belarusian delegation headed by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sergei Aleinik, will take part in the XIX Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) in Kampala (Uganda) on 18-20 January 2024. Uganda will be the sixth African country to host this high profile NAM event.   The main objective of the current summit is to bring together leaders from around the world to address pressing global issues and promote cooperation […]

The Government is deliberately implementing programmes and policies that will create jobs for the youth. President William Ruto said there is need for urgent, intentional and strategic measures to address unemployment in the country. He said the Government has identified the Affordable Housing Programme, digital jobs and export of labour as some of the programmes that will be exploited to create jobs. “Unless we intentionally work on programmes that create […]

The President of the Republic of Seychelles, Mr. Wavel Ramkalawan, sent a message of condolence to the Prime Minister of Mauritius, Hon. Pravind Kumar Jugnauth following the recent flooding and loss of lives resulting from Cyclone Belal. In his message, President Ramkalawan, stated that: “We have been following, with a heavy heart, events and the challenging circumstances in Mauritius as they unfold, brought about by Cyclone Belal. We stand in […]

The Global Black Impact Summit (GBIS) is pleased to confirm Alexia Hefti, CEO of eGovern, as a distinguished speaker at its upcoming event on February 27 in Dubai. A dynamic leader in the fields of blockchain and cryptocurrency, Hefti unites legal acumen with geopolitical insights to provide strategic advisory to governments and leverage technology for effective governance. With the aim of digitizing and connecting governments, eGovern works with governments and […]

Fourteen States will have their human rights records examined during the 45th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Working Group to be held in Geneva from 22 January to 2 February 2024. The UPR is a unique mechanism of the Human Rights Council that calls for each UN Member State to undergo a peer review of its human rights records every four-and-a-half years. The UPR Working […]

HE Minister of State for International Cooperation at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Lolwah bint Rashid Al Khater met on Wednesday with HE Minister of Trade, Industry and Competition of the Republic of South Africa, Ebrahim Patel, on the sidelines of the activities of the World Economic Forum Davos 2024. During the meeting, they discussed cooperation relations between the two countries, in addition to a number of topics of mutual […]