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Members of Parliament are not satisfied with the Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development. This is because the ministry failed to implement the House’s resolution to allow local governments to spend local revenue at the source. The parliament passed a resolution in September 2021. This urged the government to reverse a directive requiring local governments to remit consolidated funds. ...

A fresh crackdown on illegal taxi touts is about to create hard times for those in Kampala after Kampala Minister, Minsa Kabanda announced tough action. With immediate effect, the minister for Kampala Capital City and Metropolitan Affairs has ordered all taxi and bus touts to leave the city. Those that fail to do so are to be hit with a ...

UPDF soldiers have been in Somalia since 2007 fighting off Al Shabaab insurgents. They are however happy after members of parliament on the Defence and Internal Affairs Committee went there for a five-day visit. The MPs are there together with the State Minister for Defence in charge of Veterans Affairs, Oleru Gudu Abason. They are in Mogadishu to evaluate the ...

Former spy intelligence officer and currently working as a political analyst, Charles Rwomushana, has revealed that the first son, Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba, is a result of violence. According to Rwomushana, Muhoozi was built like a machine. Therefore, his type of politics is based on violence and how to keep power once he seizes it. For those that are not on ...

The media has been challenged to put an end to gender-based violence by unifying and speaking with one voice. This will help amplify the role media plays in preventing and ending this vice in the country. Dr. Patricia Litho, the Uganda Media Women’s Association (UMWA) chairperson made this call. It came as Uganda together with the rest of the world ...