The Petroleum Authority over the weekend concluded Public Hearings for the Kingfisher Development Project Environmental Social Impact Assessment(ESIA) in Kikube and Hoima districts.
CNOOC Uganda Limited presented its Environmental Social Impact Report https://pau.go.ug/about-us/resources/publications/ for comments by the residents in the project area, civil society and environmental groups.
It was the second Public Hearings into Environmental Social Impact Assessments in the oil sector. The first hearing into Tielnga Project operated by Total E&P was held last year. We captured some of the moments on camera.
The first two air crafts for the revived Uganda National Airlines arrived today at the Entebbe International Airport where they were received by President Yoweri Museveni.
Queen Elizabeth National Park has been described as a medley of nature” you can never get that feeling until you visited this National. This sneak peek gives images of some of the flora and fauna in this park. We also found a number of foreign tourists
The rain started a few minutes after 6:00 am and took the better part of Tuesday morning. Road users, business, school children, among others, were affected in a downpour that preceded almost two hours of inactivity.
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.
Mwerasandu tin site is located 27km from Ntungamo town and just 15km to the Uganda- Rwanda border. This hill is a lifeline to more than 1,000 artisanal miners. Tin mining at this site started in 1930s. Zarnack Holdings U currently has a 30 year licence for the site. The licence was awarded in 2011 and will run up to 2031. The company has not been active. The company allows artisanal miners to mine but sell the tin to the company. Uganda Radio Network visited the 202.2 hectares site and brings you photo moments of artisanal miners.
At the reopening, government put in place guidelines including requirements that only allowed Ugandan citizens to access and mine, a ban on the use of mercury in the mines as well as reduction in the mining time from 8:00am to 6:30pm.
The function in Hoima was a follow up to the earlier foundation stone laid President Museveni and his Tanzania counterpart at Luzinga in Rakai district.
The two leaders held rallies at the Ugandan and Tanzanian side of the border and later laid a foundation stone at one of the proposed corridors for the proposed East African Crude oil Pipeline EACOP.
Drama ensued at Kubbiri round about in Makerere zone I Kawempe Division as a group coffin dealers carried coffins into the Synagogue Church. They were protesting a move by the Church owner Apostle Samuel Kakande to block a water drainage channel to construct a parking yard.
Vendors abandoned the market that is found in Ndiova village Rhino-camp trading center in Rhino-Camp Sub County four years ago citing high market dues and vehicle parking fees.
