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URA Miss April Target
With just less than two months to the end of the financial year, the tax body is thinking of how it will collect money to bridge the Shs 157.08bn cumulative deficit for a period spanning between July last year and April 2013. Presenting URA's tax performance for the month of April at their headquarters this week, Paul Kyeyune, the acting commissioner for Corporate Affairs, said URA was ...
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Parliamentary Debate Poor - MP Katwiremu
Sheema South MP Yorokamu Katwiremu has said the level of debate in Uganda's Parliament today is embarrassing compared to that of the 1960s. Katwiremu, who is yet to make a substantial contribution in the current session, told The Observer on Saturday that he is shocked at the current of level of debate. "When you assess our current debates and those parliaments in the past, you feel ...
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Hilton-Smith in Uganda On Fifa Assignment
World governing soccer body (FIFA) has assigned SAFA's Acting Technical Director Fran Hilton-Smith to conduct a five-day coaching course in Kampala, Uganda in grassroots development. The FIFA coaching course which started on Monday, 20 May, is meant for development coaches; both men and women. The course which entails taking part in theoretical and practical work will conclude on ...
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Repressing Rights While Talking Law in Uganda
forced two newspapers and two radio stations to shut down while they conducted a search – and kept them shut. After years of documenting human rights abuses in Uganda, including threats to free expression, I was not impressed by her words. Her claim that the day’s events were grounded in law only further illustrated the government’s emerging practice of citing laws to justify ...
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Kenya Family demands return of terror suspect detained in Uganda
NAIROBI, KENYA : Watching news clips of the shooting of terror suspect Felix Nyangaga Otuko and his expectant wife earlier this week, Ms Zainab Suleiman had every reason to be ...
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Uganda - Ugandan police defy court order occupy publication premises
premises) was operationalized after the police obtained two search warrants from the Nakawa Magistrates Court and a letter from the Uganda Communications Commission, ordering the stations to cease operations pending the police search.The Nakawa Grade One Magistrate, Rosemary Bareebe, in issuing the Wednesday evening's vacation order, wrote that "in the process of execution of the said ...
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Continuing push for Great Lakes peace UN chief in Uganda after visit to Rwanda
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today thanked the Government of Uganda for its contribution to peace and security in Africa, travelling alongside World Bank President Jim Yong Kim on a first-of-its-kind visit to support a recent peace accord and promote economic development in the Great Lakes region. Earlier in the day, Mr. Ban spoke at ...
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Turkish Cargo Expands Freighter Trucking Services
will also boost its weekly operation to Tashkent, Uzbekistan, to two weekly flights, as of June 8.In the past few months, the division of Turkish Airlines ...
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Uganda Activists arrested as disturbing crackdown on media continues
The Ugandan authorities must end an attack on freedom of expression that has left several media outlets shut by security forces for a fifth day, Amnesty International said today after several activists were arrested for protesting against the crackdown.Armed police closed two newspapers and two radio stations on 20 May, after they reported on an alleged government plot to assassinate politicians ...
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