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UEDCL records Shs1.71t revenue in first year of power distribution takeover

UEDCL records Shs1.71t revenue in first year of power distribution takeover

Uganda Electricity Distribution Company Limited has registered a strong operational and financial rebound in its first year of managing the country’s electricity distribution network, posting Shs1.71 trillion in revenue as it stabilised a system inherited from private operators.The perfo

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Masaka City Mayor Pledges Protection for Vendors in Designated Trading Areas

Masaka City Mayor Pledges Protection for Vendors in Designated Trading Areas

Masaka City Mayor Florence Namayanja has reaffirmed her commitment to maintaining order in the city’s business environment, vowing not to allow the eviction of vendors and traders who have been officially allocated designated working spaces by city authorities.Her remarks come amid ongoi

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Meet Hannah Karema Tumukunde: The Miss Uganda Baddie Who Has Traded The Runway For Makerere’s Most Fiercely Contested Political Stage

Meet Hannah Karema Tumukunde: The Miss Uganda Baddie Who Has Traded The Runway For Makerere’s Most Fiercely Contested Political Stage

Of the thirteen candidates cleared to contest for the 92nd Makerere University Guild Presidency, Hannah Karema Tumukunde has announced her candidature under one of the most striking campaign slogans in recent guild election memory: Reboot The Ivory Tower.The metaphor is deliberate and poin

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Inside Uganda’s Boda Boda Road Safety Crisis

Inside Uganda’s Boda Boda Road Safety Crisis

They are on the road before dawn and still riding long after dark, threading through Kampala’s gridlocked streets for fares that rarely exceed a few thousand shillings. For Uganda’s boda boda riders, the pressure to earn is relentless and increasingly, it is deadly.Motorcycles are at t

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Supreme Court Set to Decide If Life Imprisonment Means 20 Years or Forever

Supreme Court Set to Decide If Life Imprisonment Means 20 Years or Forever

Uganda’s upreme Court is set to determine whether life imprisonment in Uganda means 20 years or a convict’s entire life, during a planned two-day constitutional session from Tuesday, March 31 to April 1 of 2026.The case stems from a December 2nd 2022 ruling by the Constitutional Court

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EACOP Is Offering Paid Internships To Ugandan University Students — Here Is Everything You Need To Apply Before April 13

EACOP Is Offering Paid Internships To Ugandan University Students — Here Is Everything You Need To Apply Before April 13

If you are a second, third, or fourth year university student looking for a high-profile internship that will add serious weight to your CV, the East African Crude Oil Pipeline project has just opened applications — and the deadline is April 13, 2025.The East African Crude Oil Pipeline (

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Iran Opens War Volunteer Scheme To Children As Young As 12 –Report

Iran Opens War Volunteer Scheme To Children As Young As 12 –Report

The report stated that individuals aged 12 and above are eligible to enlist in the scheme.Authorities in Iran have come under scrutiny after reportedly launching a controversial volunteer mobilization campaign that allows children as young as 12 to participate in activities tied to nationa

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Uganda’s impeding debt crisis

Uganda’s impeding debt crisis

In a recent podcast of Bad Natives, I argued that there is a real risk of Uganda defaulting on her domestic bonds in two to three years. It makes little sense to judge a country’s debt sustainability using the debt-to-GDP ratio. GDP is not a resource of government which it can use to pay credit

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Here’s why AI is Uganda’s fastest route to a $500 billion economy

Here’s why AI is Uganda’s fastest route to a $500 billion economy

It is a bold call to embrace the one laptop per child policy and digitize education to achieve Uganda’s $500 billion Gross Domestic Product (GDP) dream and accelerate East African economic integrationA HISTORIC MANDATE DEMANDS A HISTORIC RESPONSEPlease accept my warmest, most sinc

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King’s College Budo marks 120-years with colourful celebration on Palm Sunday

King’s College Budo marks 120-years with colourful celebration on Palm Sunday

WAKISO: POMP and excitement filled Budo Hill in Wakiso district as alumni, students, teachers and government officials gathered to celebrate the remarkable 120-years of King’s College Budo.The celebrations, characterized by music, dance and drama performances, begun with prayers led by t

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