By Isaac Senabulya on June 27, 2018
Kampala Serena Hotel, Lawrence Biyika Songa, Moses Ali, parliamentary forum on climate change, Sam Cheptoris, UN bodies, Water and Environment, World Bank
Environment issues, Featured, Latest Uganda News, WeInformers Blogs
Uganda today has registered a milestone in the environment sphere as being the first African nation to sign the nationally determined contribution towards addressing climate change impacts as a way to fulfill the 2015 Paris agreement. The nationally determined contribution plans is part of the national strategies the country will implement to see that it combats […]
By Benard Kabwijukya on January 10, 2018
Kampala Institutional and Infrastructure Development Project, Report, World Bank
Latest Uganda News, Politics
According to a report released in December 2017 by the World Bank, about ninety percent of Kampala residents are satisfied with KCCA’S improved roads, signalized junctions, street lights and walkways. Results from the two studies show that KCCA’s Infrastructure project is on track towards achieving set project objectives. The studies were carried out ahead of […]
By Isaac Senabulya on July 6, 2017
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State minister of health in charge of general duties, Sarah Opendi, has said that government did not lose any funds following the rejection of medical equipment and furniture which failed to meet the specifications provided by the Ministry of Health. The equipment was procured under the financed by 13.7 million dollars out of 130 million […]
By Gerald Businge on January 19, 2017
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The Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) has said the major challenge, that has delayed starting construction of some roads and drainage in the city is compensation for right-of-way to have these done. Addressing journalists at the Uganda media center recently, the Director Engineering and Technical Services at KCCA, Justus Akankwasa, said that some of the […]
By Gerald Businge on December 14, 2016
Arua districts, borrow an additional US$ 11.32million (Kuwait Dinars 3.5m), Bushenyi, Committee on National Economy, communication infrastructure and road reserves, electricity transmission, Grid Expansion and Reinforcement Project, gulu, Hon. Helen Kahunde (Kiryandondo), Hon. Mbabali Muyanja (Bukoto South), Hon. Nabilah Naggayi (Kampala), infrastructure projects to accommodate power lines, International Development Association (IDA), Karuma and Isimba hydro power stations, Kasese and Rukungiri, Kibaale, Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development to finance the construction of the 33KV and 11KV distribution project in six districts of; Kiryandongo, Ministry of Energy and Mineral Development, Nebbi, Parliament, rural electrification projects, so as to reduce on repeated compensation whenever projects are implemented., UMEME, water pipes, World Bank
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Parliament has approved two motions authorizing government to borrow up to US$102.88million intended for rural electrification projects. Government is set to borrow US$91.5million from the International Development Association (IDA)of the World Bank to finance the Grid Expansion and Reinforcement Project. The project is intended to increase availability and efficiency of bulk electricity supply in Gulu, […]
By Emma Laura N. Kisa on October 6, 2016
Africa, economy, sub saharan africa, World Bank
Africa, Agriculture, Agriculture, Business & Economics, Business & Finance, Business news, Featured, Finance, Regional
In their October 2016 report: Africa’s pulse, An analysis of issues shaping Africa’s economic future, the World Bank Group notes that after slowing to 3 percent in 2015, economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa is projected to fall to 1.6 percent in 2016. That is half of what it was last year and the lowest level […]
By Isaac Senabulya on August 17, 2016
Alhaji Momodou Jallow, and the need to strengthen agricultural extension and advisory services countrywide., Deparrtment for International Development (DFID), Development partners who support the Agricultural sector in Uganda are unhappy with the way government pampers companies supplying fake seeds to farmers, especially those with big chunks of land, European Union (EU), FAO, French Embassy and Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) among others expressed their disappointment while meeting with the minister of Agriculture, government to put in place laws that punish those companies which supply fake seeds to farmers, government to start distributing free farm inputs to farmers, International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA), ministry of agriculture to bring private sector on board, Netherlands Cooperation, the strategies for strengthening certification and regulation of the agricultural inputs market (fake seeds), Uganda Country representative, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP, United Sates Agency for International Development (USAID), Vincent Bamulangaki Ssempijja at FAO offices in Kampala, ways on how to finalize the formulation and approval of the irrigation policy, World Bank, World Food Programme (WFP)
Agriculture, Latest Uganda News
Development partners who support the Agricultural sector in Uganda are unhappy with the way government pampers companies supplying fake seeds to farmers. Representatives from International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), United Sates Agency for International Development (USAID), Netherlands Cooperation, World Bank, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), European Union (EU), Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA), Deparrtment […]
By Gerald Businge on August 12, 2016
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Uganda’s Youth Members of Parliament are slated to attend the International Young Leaders Assembly in Washington DC, in United States later this year. According to a notice about the Assembly, the meetings organized by the Global Peace Foundation will bring together over one thousand young leaders from around the world to be held at the World […]
By Samuel Wamuttu on July 31, 2016
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Latest Uganda News, Politics & Governance
During the Capital Gang on 91.3 Capital FM Radio of July 30, 2016, the hot topic of debate was is bailout! Many opinions on this is divided-some say it’s wrong to bailout irresponsible tycoons when no one else has been assisted in the past apart from Basajjabalaba. However, bailouts have happened before like in the […]
By Emma Laura N. Kisa on July 3, 2015
GNI per capita, income, Kenya, Kenyan Economy, Lower middle income status, World Bank
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Kenya becomes the first East African country to be granted lower-middle income status, joining the African countries of Morocco, Nigeria, Cameroon, Congo, Cote d’Ivoire, Egypt, Senegal, Ghana, Sudan, Swaziland, Lesotho and Zambia. The World Bank has confirmed Kenya’s status following the change in the way the size of its economy is calculated, showing it was […]
