The bank will preserve animal genetic resources germplasm for 12 Countries including Uganda, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, Djibouti, Eritrea, Somalia, Republic of Comoros, South Sudan and Sudan. It is one of the six established under the Global Plan of Action to conserve the world’s heritage of animal genetic resources for food and agriculture. Other banks exist in Burkina Faso, Botswana and Cameroon.
Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) Commissioner General Doris Akol said the tax body only collected 49.5 billion out of the targeted 284 billion Shillings. This means URA was unable to collect 234 billion from this tax measure, a shortfall of 83 per cent from the estimates.
The tax heads or sectors that show the health of the income, including corporation tax (levy on company profits), Pay as You Earn (PAYE), which is levied on employees’ earnings performed above target. This means that companies made money and hired more staff.
In message read on his behalf by the Vice President Edward Kiwanuka Ssekandi, Museveni said Amirali was one of those people who filled the goods shortage gap when they captured government in 1986.
The Speaker of Parliament Rebecca Kadaga has described Amirali Karmali, the proprietor of Mukwano Industries Uganda Limited as a great entrepreneur who executed acts of courage and love for Uganda.
Samasource trains the AI data analysts. These are linked to technology companies around the world although they work from here. The companies pay Samasource which in turn pays the workers.
Michael Tokoma, a business man at Elegu Town council in Amuru District says hundreds of people from especially Adjumani district have camped at Elegu Town council fearing to cross into South Sudan.
Alykhan Karmali, the Managing Director of Mukwano group, who took from his father in 1995 when he retired from active work, says on the group website, that the name symbolizes the fact that Mukwano products had become a friend to millions of people not just in Uganda but in the region.
Dr Louis Kasekende, the Bank of Uganda Deputy Governor, says that the Central Bank has not been monitoring loans transactions on mobile money platforms because the Telecoms had also not been given licenses to offer products to clients.
He was one of the few Asians who stayed on in Uganda during Idi Amin Dada's military regime. Nonetheless, the uncertainty during the time could not allow many businesses, including Mukwano, achieve their potential.
When the farmers have produced, they feed information into the platform which can be seen by the market buyer who would ultimately contact them. The agents offer a price and if a farmer accepts, they transfer funds through mobile money and bank transfers, before they can pick the produce.
Rashmi Pillai, the Executive Director of the Financial Sector Deepening Uganda (FSDU), told a meeting at Kampala Serena on Wednesday that it was not enough for all people to have just bank accounts, access to mobile money and other financial services. Financial inclusion must reflect a positive change in their lives.
Paul Higiro, the Managing Director Universal Freight, who attended the Niamey summit, hailed the agreement, saying Uganda shouldn’t sit back and wait but start preparations in earnest.
Kiddedde said the fragmentation of the industry creates significant difficulties in the quantification of those involved in the industry, the services these small companies can provide and the skills required to grow the industry
Government has said that the proposed registration of coffee farmers will cut off middle men and also ensure development of the coffee sector in the country.
This means in areas where households were food-stressed, they got funds from peers and family members quickly via mobile money. They used the money to buy food and didn’t reduce on meals they had to take for the day
In a press statement issued on Monday by the Secretary to Treasury, Keith Muhakanizi, all Ugandans who supplied services and goods to South Sudan are required to submit their claims and supporting documents to the Ministry of finance.
In a letter to Bemanya dated June 27, 2019, Justice and Constitutional Affairs Minister Kahinda Otafiire said he was acting on the recommendation by the URSB’s board of directors on June 19, 2019, asking the contract be renewed.
