Internal Affairs Ministry

Government to start issuing electronic passports in January

Government to start issuing electronic passports in January

According to the Internal Affairs ministry’s Permanent Secretary,Dr Benon Mutambi‘s tweet on Friday, the Ugandan government is to start issuing electronic (biometric) passports beginning January 2019. “Uganda is ready to migrate from the current machine-readable passports to e-passports in January 2019,” Dr Benon Mutambi tweeted. Dr. Mutambi stressed that the already stored data in the […]

Agago residents clash with Balalo herdsmen in their area

Agago residents clash with Balalo herdsmen in their area

Agago District Woman MP Judith Franc Akello says that tension is growing after the invasion of Balalo herdsmen who are ferrying thousands of cattle in the area. Akello says that Balalo herdsmen are hiring small pieces of land which cannot accommodate their animals and ending up  encroaching on people’s land for cultivation. She said that as […]