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Directors Face Jail as Uganda Government Investigates 20 Gold Companies: Police & Energy Ministry Inquiring into Alleged Fraud

Directors Face Jail as Uganda Government Investigates 20 Gold Companies: Police & Energy Ministry Inquiring into Alleged Fraud

The chief police publicist Kituma Rusoke has corroborated the Energy Ministry’s Geology & Mining Commissioner Agnes Alaba’s information indicating that a total of not less than 20 private companies involved in gold deals in Uganda are currently being investigated.That the companies

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Parliament Rejects UGX300 Billion Request For Rural Electrification

Parliament Rejects UGX300 Billion Request For Rural Electrification

Parliament has rejected a proposal by the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Development to allocate an additional 300 billion Shillings for rural electrification in the 2026/27 financial year.Presenting the report of the Committee on Natural Resources, Soroti East MP Herbert Ariko urged the g

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MPs Push to Reinstate Rural Electrification Agency Amid Power Access Concerns

MPs Push to Reinstate Rural Electrification Agency Amid Power Access Concerns

Lawmakers are demanding the revival of the Rural Electrification Agency, arguing that electricity access in rural Uganda has slowed since its dissolution, even as government insists restructuring would delay progress and worsen existing funding constraints.Members of Parliament have called

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Iranian Supreme Leader mocks 'arrogant and humiliated' US in fiery new threat

Iranian Supreme Leader mocks 'arrogant and humiliated' US in fiery new threat

Iran's Supreme Leader has taken aim at Donald Trump and US forces in a fiery new statement.Mojtaba Khamenei praised his forces for standing up to American and Israeli "arrogance" before threatening to bring about "new defeats". He also said his opponents have had their "weakness and humili

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Finance Ministry Strengthens Oversight of Public Investments With New Technical Committee

Finance Ministry Strengthens Oversight of Public Investments With New Technical Committee

The government has taken a major step toward tightening oversight and improving the efficiency of public investments through the inauguration of a multi-agency technical committee under its broader public finance reform agenda.The Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development has

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79% of Cases Unfinished: Inside the Financial Intelligence Authority’s Fragile Fight Against Money Laundering

79% of Cases Unfinished: Inside the Financial Intelligence Authority’s Fragile Fight Against Money Laundering

FIA Executive Director Samuel Were Wandera and Justice Bonny Isaac Teko stand at the center of Uganda’s evolving anti-money laundering landscape, where assertive enforcement meets judicial insistence on due process, highlighting a system striving to balance swift intervention with evidence, ove

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Uganda appoints Citibank to mobilise funds for 2.7 billion euro railway project

Uganda appoints Citibank to mobilise funds for 2.7 billion euro railway project

Uganda said on Thursday it had appointed Citibank to mobilise financing needed to fund the country's planned 2.7 billion ‌euro ($3.19 billion) Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) project.In a post, opens new tab on the X platform, the East African country's finance ministry said Uganda is "in t

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The geography of power and the price of ignorance

The geography of power and the price of ignorance

When commenting on the 1980–1988 Iraq–Iran war, Henry Kissinger once remarked that it was “a pity both sides can’t lose”. It was a chilling distillation of a worldview in which distant conflicts are not tragedies to be resolved, but instruments to be managed. Alongside Zbigniew Brzezins

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KCCA road works lag as Parliament raises alarm over funding gaps, flood risk ‎

KCCA road works lag as Parliament raises alarm over funding gaps, flood risk ‎

The Committee is also concerned that disbursement is performance-linked, meaning that continued slow progress will directly reduce KCCA's access to programme funds and jeopardise the broader metropolitan development objectives‎Parliament’s Committee on Physical Infrastructure has raise

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NEMA Seizes Trucks, Destroys Boats in Lwera Sand Mining Crackdown

NEMA Seizes Trucks, Destroys Boats in Lwera Sand Mining Crackdown

The National Environment Management Authority has intensified enforcement against illegal sand mining in the Lwera wetlands, impounding trucks, destroying boats and arresting suspects in a coordinated multi-agency operation.The two-day crackdown, which ended on April 15, targeted Gwanira V

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