The accident involving a Fuso lorry registration number UAN 443J occurred around 8:30 pm on Wednesday as traders were returning from Kotido district in Karamoja sub region. The vehicle was carrying 19 cattle traded from Karamoja.
While addressing journalists at the Uganda Media Centre in Kampala on Wednesday, Uganda's Ambassador to the Emirates Wanume Zaake Kibedi, said that the UAE government granted a three months’ amnesty effective August to all illegal Ugandan migrants to surrender and be deported.
EU Ambassador to Uganda, Jan Sadek warned that the job-creation rate in Uganda is too low compared to the expansion of the working age group, which could have far-reaching effects on the future of the country.
Henry Muguzi, the Executive Director, of ACFIM, says that while the private sector in many countries sponsors candidates and parties for elections, some countries have regulations while others have abused this due to the absence of or inadequacy of the regulations.
Most people who work in the city didn't even know how this disease is spread, how one contracts it, or even how to prevent it. Paul Tumwesigye a Boda Boda rider, says that this disease is spread through eating on dirty utensils, especially from the downtown restaurants in which many people converge, adding that he devised other ways of having his lunch.
The University produced 12 tons of mango pulp in a pilot project last year which was aimed at mitigating post-harvest losses in fresh mangoes in Acholi Sub-region. But close to nine tons of mango pulp remain unutilised in the Agribusiness lab.
Dr. Nickson said they discovered that 11 out of the 16 sub-counties in Agago district had not submitted accountability for the money disbursed to them for the training.
John Bosco Sebabi, the Deputy Executive Director of PAPSS at Afrexim Bank, says this delay by some central banks to get connected is still a challenge because then, it is hard to trade under the system with a county which is not yet on the system.
The funding is part of a 600 million euros allocation from the EU to support the most vulnerable African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries to cope with the unjust consequences of Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine, notably the current food crisis and related economic shocks.
