It is first time Uganda is attending the meeting after cabinet agreed that Uganda should join the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative EITI. It is expected that Ugandas membership to EITI will enhance transparency and accountability and lasting value as it prepares for Oil and Gas production.
Unlike National Social Security Fund, Enwealth says it will target Small and Medium Enterprise market in Uganda.The firm has targeted the SME market in 12 other countries in Africa.
The government has been banking on the Joint Venture Partners, Tullow, China National Offshore Oil Corporation-CNOOC and Total to make a Final Investment Decision with regard to the project, to unlock value in the countrys oil and gas sector.
Uganda Bankers Association Chairperson, Patrick Mweheire says Agency Banking is delivering financial services to the underserved and unbanked population in the country.
Winnie Ngabirwe, the coordinator of Publish What You Pay PYP Uganda, says the move is welcome because it opens the oil and gas sector in Uganda to citizen scrutiny. She says dealing in the oil and gas sector will no longer remain secretive as they have been in the past.
The register comes as Uganda prepares to begin construction of infrastructure to have first oil out of the ground. The Infrastructure developments estimated at USD 20 billion and expected create jobs.
The idea is that all the final investment decisions for the pipeline, refinery and general developments should have been concluded by end of June for first oil 2021/2022.
inisters from United Republic of Tanzania are already in Uganda for Ministerial meeting to be held at Kampala Serena Hotel. The team includes, Dr. Adelardus Kilangi, Tanzanias Attorney General.
The gangs are reportedly backed by a number of politicians and Community leaders determined to counter the law against Female Genital Mutilation. Over one hundred girls have been forced into FGM in Kween District.
Kamuntu was the chief guest at dinner at Serena Hotel in Kampala where Kenyans converged ahead of Kenyas 55th Independence day also known as Jamuhuri day.
Kenyans in Uganda had colorful fete held at Kampala Sereana hotel on Tuesday as they prepared to join the rest of Kenyans to mark the 55th Jamhuri Day celebrations to be held on Wednesday. Jamuhuri day is the day when Kenyans celebrate the day Kenya became a republic on December 12, 1964, and when she gained her independence from Britain a year earlier on December 12, 1963.In Kampala, the even was hosted by the new Kenyan High Commissioner to Uganda Kiama Kilonzo. Ugandas Tourism Minister , Professor Ephraim Kamuntu was graced the occasion together with members of Uganda business, diplomats, military attaches, and Kenyans living in Ugandan.This years theme isTwende Mbele Pamoja.
Ambassador Pacifici says such claims have come up with in the government questioning the EU support to civil society actors in areas of human rights and governance.
The petition was filed by six civil society groups including Center for Constitutional Governance after President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni assented to the law. The petitioners cited several grounds seeking the annulment of the Public Order Management Act which they said contradicts several articles of the Constitution.
It was originally an only invite party by Prince David Wasajja and his friend David Freeman Kiyimba.. Tashobya Nsubuga believes more than one hundred revelers were on board.. The boats engine was switched off when the waves intensified which she thinks could have been a mistake .. No passenger manifest was recorded before takeoff. She says the organisers nearly called off the trip few hours before takeoff.
Tullow Plc the parent company to Tullow Operations Uganda says the conclusion of the farm-down will contribute 200m to its expected 700 million cash flow by end of the year.
The report said trade in illicit alcohol generates US5.1 billion in annual sales revenue for illicit players, and represents a combined annual fiscal loss of more than US1.8 billion for the governments involved.
