Provides the latest RSS feeds for Uganda News. For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Uganda News.net http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/cat/faaba65027d16d8c/ en-us Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:47:38 -0400 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:47:38 -0400 30 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 ... http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/215283675/scat/faaba65027d16d8c Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:22:15 -0400 http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/215283675/scat/faaba65027d16d8c Coffee farming especially in central region has been affected by coffee wilt for the past few years. Many coffee farmers had abandoned the growing of coffee and changed to other crops which were not affected by the wilt disease. However farmers in Mukono, Luwero and Nakaseke have now turned to sprinkling methods in order to fight the coffee wilt disease. Lawrence Zikusooka a farmer in Zirobwe ... http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/215279258/scat/faaba65027d16d8c Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:06:55 -0400 http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/215279258/scat/faaba65027d16d8c There are rumours that you and Ronnie separated, is it true? What makes you think that we separated? Ever since I came back from the Big Brother house, people have not been kind to me. The truth is, Ronnie and I are still in love and if you have doubts, you should call him. I hate it when people think they know more about me than I ... http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/215279257/scat/faaba65027d16d8c Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:06:55 -0400 http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/215279257/scat/faaba65027d16d8c Uganda's foreign minister has warned foreign envoys in the country not to interfere in the East African nation's internal affairs. Henry Okello Oryem says he has told the envoys to use regular diplomatic channels with President Yoweri Museveni's government to resolve their concerns about governance issues. "Ambassadors and other diplomatic missions come with clear terms of ... http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/215278987/scat/faaba65027d16d8c Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:06:50 -0400 http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/215278987/scat/faaba65027d16d8c Renegade Ugandan army General David Sejusa has accused President Yoweri Museveni of creating a "political monarchy" to hang on to power. In his first interview since he fled to the UK last month, the four-star general told the BBC that Mr Museveni's plans should be opposed. Gen Sejusa fled after claiming that Mr Museveni was grooming his son Muhoozi Kainerugaba to succeed him. ... http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/215275294/scat/faaba65027d16d8c Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:57:27 -0400 http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/215275294/scat/faaba65027d16d8c TSETSE flies, the vectors that spread sleeping sickness in humans and nagana in cattle have hit districts in northern Uganda, Bunyoro, Busoga and Kalangala. Speaking at the launch of the desert locust control and crop protection programme at Sanctum Hotel in Entebbe yesterday, Evarist Magara, the country representative of Desert Locust Control Organization for Eastern Africa, said the situation ... http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/215273826/scat/faaba65027d16d8c Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:37:00 -0400 http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/215273826/scat/faaba65027d16d8c Adulterated salt is on sale in Kampala, with stones visible to the naked eye. Sunday Vision bought several packets of salt from different shops and supermarkets across the city and each of them contained stones, some as small as the salt granules. Most of this packed salt is imported from Mombasa, Kenya, Sunday Vision further learnt. While some of this salt is branded, some of it does not have ... http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/215273827/scat/faaba65027d16d8c Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:37:00 -0400 http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/215273827/scat/faaba65027d16d8c Kampala - When the Uganda Communications Commission (UCC) launched the national card registration exercise on March 1, 2013, few expected the programme to fight fraud. However, the exercise has already yielded high dividends. Previously, many Ugandans - including prominent personalities, MPs and institutions such as NSSF - have often been the victims of telephone fraudsters. One such attempt at ... http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/215273828/scat/faaba65027d16d8c Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:36:59 -0400 http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/215273828/scat/faaba65027d16d8c On 15 June, Uganda’s president, Yoweri Museveni, joined the ‘10,000 Club’, a small coterie of world leaders who have held power for over 10,000 days – more than 27 years. In Africa, only Teodoro Obiang of Equatorial Guinea, Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe, and Jose Eduardo Dos Santos of Angola have remained in office longer. Museveni is not in good company: each controls ... http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/215273279/scat/faaba65027d16d8c Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:33:02 -0400 http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/215273279/scat/faaba65027d16d8c By Elias Biryabarema KAMPALA, June 18 | Tue Jun 18, 2013 11:12am EDT KAMPALA, June 18 (Reuters) - Uganda, under pressure to boost tax receipts, plans to amend banking laws to give the state revenue collector greater access to depositors' bank accounts to verify tax compliance. Currently, tax authorities can only gain access to bank accounts of a firm or individual through a court ... http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/215273422/scat/faaba65027d16d8c Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:12:31 -0400 http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/215273422/scat/faaba65027d16d8c Kyenjojo and Kabarole districts in western Uganda have also borne the blunt of the drought that has affected most parts of the country. "I planted maize and beans early last month expecting rainfall, but we were hit by the dry spell. All the crops are stunted and drying up. I am planning to dig them up because I don't expect any harvest," said John Kamara, a farmer in Kyenjojo ... http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/215272256/scat/faaba65027d16d8c Tue, 18 Jun 2013 10:31:25 -0400 http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/215272256/scat/faaba65027d16d8c Uganda loses some US $899 million annually due to the effects of malnutrition. This is the alarming finding of a new study entitled The Cost of Hunger in Africa, which for the first time measures the economic burden of hunger on the continent. Uganda is the first of 12 countries in the region to announce its findings. Widespread malnutrition costs the central African nation of Uganda hundreds ... http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/215272255/scat/faaba65027d16d8c Tue, 18 Jun 2013 10:31:25 -0400 http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/215272255/scat/faaba65027d16d8c Female judges are concerned about the increasing cases of domestic violence despite the existence of the law to support prosecution of such cases. The judges under the National Association of Women Judges-Uganda (NAWJU) blamed the escalating cases of gender-based domestic violence on limited knowledge of the law key players for example, judges, lawyers, victims and police. The president of the ... http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/215271897/scat/faaba65027d16d8c Tue, 18 Jun 2013 10:31:22 -0400 http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/215271897/scat/faaba65027d16d8c SEVERAL parts of Karamoja have been hit by a severe food shortage. According a report by the Office of the Prime Minister (OPM), Kaabong district is the most hard-hit area, where there were reports that 41 people could have died as a result of food insecurity. Another 59 elderly people were saved from starvation by the OPM according to the three page report titled 'Summary assessment report ... http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/215271656/scat/faaba65027d16d8c Tue, 18 Jun 2013 10:31:22 -0400 http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/215271656/scat/faaba65027d16d8c Reporters Without Borders is shocked by last night's murder of Thomas Pere, a reporter for the state-owned New Vision media group in the Ugandan capital of Kampala. His body was found early this morning in an open field a few miles outside the city. "It is clear from the injuries to Pere's body and the way it was found that his death was not accidental, and that in fact he was ... http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/215270896/scat/faaba65027d16d8c Tue, 18 Jun 2013 09:25:21 -0400 http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/215270896/scat/faaba65027d16d8c Kampala - Uganda employers have said the government can go ahead to institute a minimum wage for labour dismissing reports that the legislation has not been put in place because they strongly oppose it. This, in a turn of events, is contrary to what President Yoweri Museveni said at this year's Labour Day celebrations that the country is not yet ready for minimum wage legislation. ... http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/215265427/scat/faaba65027d16d8c Tue, 18 Jun 2013 04:05:12 -0400 http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/215265427/scat/faaba65027d16d8c Jinja - A couple of years ago, Diana Nankwanga Mulwanyi, a social sciences graduate, switched careers from administration to backyard farming or to be precise, agri-business. While that may sound ridiculous to many urbanites, it's becoming the reality for a new generation of young upcoming farmers when the job market is so tight. Like Nankwanga many urban dwellers are increasingly ... http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/215264992/scat/faaba65027d16d8c Tue, 18 Jun 2013 04:05:10 -0400 http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/215264992/scat/faaba65027d16d8c Kampala - A mobile phone-based health programme designed to improve access to sexual health information and boost safe sex in rural central Uganda had the opposite effect, according to the findings of a Yale University study published in May. The programme, designed by Google and the Grameen Foundation's AppLab and provided free of charge by mobile phone firm MTN, allowed users in 60 ... http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/215265161/scat/faaba65027d16d8c Tue, 18 Jun 2013 04:05:10 -0400 http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/215265161/scat/faaba65027d16d8c Kampala - The bourse experienced a slump last week as investors anticipated the outcome of the national budget. The total turnover at the Uganda Securities Exchange (USE) fell by 76% from the previous week recording a turnover of Ush2777.7m ($107,000). Umeme dominated the market during the week posting a turnover of Ush161m ($62,000) realized from trading over 460,000 shares. The counter's ... http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/215264501/scat/faaba65027d16d8c Tue, 18 Jun 2013 03:02:02 -0400 http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/215264501/scat/faaba65027d16d8c Kampala - In 2008, Bridget Nabukalu was born normal like most other children. Her woes started when she turned two months old. Instead of gaining weight, Bridget was losing it at an alarming rate. The parents were referred for a screening test at the Heart Institute in the Mulago Hospital complex. Cardiologists soon detected a huge hole on the infant's heart. To the parents' despair, ... http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/215264500/scat/faaba65027d16d8c Tue, 18 Jun 2013 03:02:02 -0400 http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/215264500/scat/faaba65027d16d8c Kampala - Lack of local flower breeders, coupled with high borrowing costs and a government that seems to have turned its back on them, is demoralizing Ugandan flower growers. At one time in the late 1990s, the Uganda horticulture and floriculture industry was touted as one of the most exciting non-traditional export sectors. But since then, several flower firms have steadily fallen off by the ... http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/215264499/scat/faaba65027d16d8c Tue, 18 Jun 2013 03:02:02 -0400 http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/215264499/scat/faaba65027d16d8c Kampala - Accountants say government should ensure that a law regulating the auditing of financial statements to tax returns is instituted in a move to create transparency within Uganda's taxation system. This is according to Mr. Derrick Nkajja, the chief executive officer of the Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Uganda. Nkajja was speaking during the International Federation of ... http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/215264504/scat/faaba65027d16d8c Tue, 18 Jun 2013 03:02:01 -0400 http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/215264504/scat/faaba65027d16d8c I greet you and thank you for all the positive things you have been doing since I last addressed you on the 13th December 2012, at the Special sitting of Parliament when I was talking about the Oil Industry. My main concerns, as you may by now know, apart from peace, are socio-economic transformation of our society and economy and the integration (both economic and political) of the African ... http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/215264502/scat/faaba65027d16d8c Tue, 18 Jun 2013 03:02:01 -0400 http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/215264502/scat/faaba65027d16d8c Resty Nekuze, a cattle farmer in the Kawempe suburbs, located about seven kilometres north of Kampala, is not happy with this year's budget. At one stroke the finance minister, Maria Kiwanuka eliminated VAT exemption on the supply of water for domestic use. However, while reading the budget last week, Kiwanuka reassured people that the measure should not affect the prices paid by the ... http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/215264498/scat/faaba65027d16d8c Tue, 18 Jun 2013 03:02:01 -0400 http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/215264498/scat/faaba65027d16d8c The Uganda communication Commission has launched the computer Emergency response team aimed at tracking cyber crimes in the country. Speaking during the inauguration of the response team at the commissions Headquarters in Kampala the permanent secretary in the Ministry of Information and Communication Technology Dr Jimmy Samanya said the project team will help the Government to monitor cyber ... http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/215264497/scat/faaba65027d16d8c Tue, 18 Jun 2013 03:02:01 -0400 http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/215264497/scat/faaba65027d16d8c Kampala - Environmentalists in Uganda have warned international Banks against funding projects in Uganda that are depleting the national forest cover and supporting land grabbing According to the new study carried out by the Friends of the Earth, an environmental organization advocating for the protection of nature, European banks and pension funds are funding palm oil giant Wilmar ... http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/215264496/scat/faaba65027d16d8c Tue, 18 Jun 2013 03:02:01 -0400 http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/215264496/scat/faaba65027d16d8c Kampala - Failure by the Government to fully implement policies aimed at transforming the Agriculture sector has hurt Uganda's goods at the international market. Experts say that although Uganda developed comprehensive policies, the oblectives are rarely achieved. Dr Lawrence Bategeka the deputy Executive Director of the Economic Policy Research Center (EPRC)said during the First National ... http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/215264495/scat/faaba65027d16d8c Tue, 18 Jun 2013 03:02:01 -0400 http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/215264495/scat/faaba65027d16d8c On Monday morning, Vision Group media company woke to the news of the death of one of its employees, Thomas Pere, who was a freelance journalist for New Vision paper. Police reports indicated that Pere's end Sunday late night was an act of brutality by unknown people who dumped his body in a different location. Still drowned in the shock of the loss of their own, work colleagues have ... http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/215264506/scat/faaba65027d16d8c Tue, 18 Jun 2013 03:02:00 -0400 http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/215264506/scat/faaba65027d16d8c Teachers of Mukono Senior Secondary School fled for dear life following a students' strike over poor living conditions. The Monday afternoon strike that was steadily spiraling out of control required the intervention of police officers from the nearby Mukono Police who arrived to contain the students. A teacher (in jacket) is caught up in a scuffle during the strike Students hurled ... http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/215264505/scat/faaba65027d16d8c Tue, 18 Jun 2013 03:02:00 -0400 http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/215264505/scat/faaba65027d16d8c Kampala - Trademark East Africa signed the MoU as a contribution to the World Bank's East Africa Trade and Transport Facilitation Project (EATTFP) and additional financing of One Stop Border Posts under East Africa Transit Improvement Programme and Trademark Uganda country programme. Trademark and the World Bank will finance the construction of Busia, Mirama Hills, Elegu and Mutukula border ... http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/215264503/scat/faaba65027d16d8c Tue, 18 Jun 2013 03:02:00 -0400 http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/215264503/scat/faaba65027d16d8c Kampala - Centum Investment Company more than doubled its profits before tax from the previous financial year, posting Ksh 3.2 billion ($38m) translating to earnings per share of Ksh3.77 for reporting period ending March 31st 2013. In 2012, the firm reported profit before tax of $16m which was a Ksh1.79 in earnings per share. Income tripled to Ksh3.9 billion from the previous year's 1.3 ... http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/215264239/scat/faaba65027d16d8c Tue, 18 Jun 2013 03:01:56 -0400 http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/215264239/scat/faaba65027d16d8c Kampala - Fund managers STANLIB Uganda has trained over 80 trustees as the company carefully positions its self for the upcoming liberalization of the pension sector. The South Africa-based firm that has already established a presence in Namibia, Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland, Kenya and Uganda, made its intentions known after successfully acquiring a provisional license to operate fund ... http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/215264236/scat/faaba65027d16d8c Tue, 18 Jun 2013 03:01:56 -0400 http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/215264236/scat/faaba65027d16d8c In last week's reading of Uganda's National Budget 2013/2014, Finance minister Maria Kiwanuka fronted bold steps to widen the country's tax base. Ana Lucia Coronel, Uganda's IMF senior resident representative has offered a piece of advice in this regard; abandon tax incentives. Tax incentives are exemptions from paying tax, offered to woo players into a specified activity or ... http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/215263592/scat/faaba65027d16d8c Tue, 18 Jun 2013 01:59:23 -0400 http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/215263592/scat/faaba65027d16d8c Kampala - Manufacturers who have excelled in producing quality products will be recognized and be presented with awards recognising their performance during the past year. The awards that were started four years ago, were introduced by the Kampala City Traders Association (KACITA) to promote quality goods and service delivery for the consumer. Everest Kayondo, the KACITA Chairman was addressing ... http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/215263593/scat/faaba65027d16d8c Tue, 18 Jun 2013 01:59:23 -0400 http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/215263593/scat/faaba65027d16d8c Farmers are set to reap much from their toils with the improved technology in post harvest handling that is expected to reduce wastes, thanks to Cimbria East Africa Peter Wanjohi, technical Sales Assistant at Cimbria East Africa Ltd says that the value chain has been frustrated by lack of improved post harvest machines which has lead to poor quality of most produce thus lowering the price. ... http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/215263273/scat/faaba65027d16d8c Tue, 18 Jun 2013 01:59:19 -0400 http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/215263273/scat/faaba65027d16d8c Kampala - The Insurance sector in Uganda has reported an 18.48% growth. This was after its annual premiums collections leaped from Ush296.8bn ($111.6m) in 2011 to Ush351.2bn ($$132m) in 2012 according to Insurance Regulatory Authority (IRA). Non Life Insurance premium written continued to be the leading contributor to the coffers of insurance companies after it brought in a total of Ush312.9bn ... http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/215263286/scat/faaba65027d16d8c Tue, 18 Jun 2013 01:59:18 -0400 http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/215263286/scat/faaba65027d16d8c