The World Cup fever has gripped Uganda’s Capital City Kampala. The 2010 world cup to be held in South Africa – the first time such an international event is held in the African continent starts today at 5:00pm with the opening march between South Africa and Mexico. In some areas of Kampala today, shopkeepers temporarily […]
The government of Uganda is planning to set up a special fund targeting the youth in a bid to curb unemployment in Uganda. The Minister of Uganda for Finance, Hajjati Syda Bbumba said this during the budget reading on Thursday this week. Bumba says that the government of Uganda in its effort to create more […]
The Electoral Commission (EC) has clarified anomalies involved in ongoing national voter registration exercise. The chairperson of EC, Eng. Badru Kiggundu says the commission kicked off the exercise on May 3rd to June 14th, 2010. The ongoing national voters’ registration exercise conducted in different parts of Uganda is intended to accommodate new eligible voters and […]
The presidential advisor on Northern Uganda, Richard Todwong has appealed to the International Criminal Court (ICC) to consider reconciliation as the only way of punishing members of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) rebels to avoid further conflicts in future. He says reconciliation mostly practiced in Africa helps reconcile the victim with the culprit and therefore, […]
The Northern Uganda Transitional Justice Working Group has urged the government of Uganda to promote transitional justice in its efforts of peace rebuilding in Northern Uganda. This comes at a time when Northern Uganda is steadily recovering from the Kony insurgency that it suffered from for over 20 years and the government has come up […]
Members of Parliament have expressed mixed reactions over the budget read by the Minister of Finance Planning and Economic Development Syda Bbumba with other viewing it as a substantially well thought out budget while other viewed it as one failed to address certain fundamental concerns of Uganda. Bbumba has just read the budget which reveals […]
In the next financial year 2010/2011 Uganda will be able to fund 75% of it annual budget from its own resources and only 25% of the budget will be funded by donors or Uganda’s development partners. In the budget which the Minister of Finance, Planning and Economic Development, Syda Bbumba, under the theme “Strategic priorities […]
The president of Uganda Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has indicated that the government will set up a uniform education structure in the country to help reduce the problem of unemployment, improve the literacy levels in the country and improve access to education. While reacting to the budget speech read by Uganda Finance minister Syda Bbumba […]
Minister Syda Bbumba The Minister of Finance Planning and Economic development, Syda Bbumba has said that the government has already budgeted for the increment of salaries of civil servants in key strategic areas. He says the salaries of scientists, teachers, health workers and low cadre staff in the security service will be increased by […]
Uganda finance minister says Uganda oil going to be a blessing The Uganda minister of finance Hon. Syda Bbumba has indicated that the recent discovery of oil in the Albertaine region of western Uganda will be a blessing to the country’s economy because of the good oil management systems the government is putting in place. […]