Uganda News News Uganda » Government: Uganda sets up research task forces to guide policy and spending
The initiative is part of government efforts to strengthen the use of research and evidence in policy and development planning ...
News Uganda » Government: Uganda: Behind the government’s refinery deal with UAE’s Alpha
In January, the government in Uganda announced that it had entered negotiations with the Alpha MBM Group, a Dubai-based private investment company, which would make it the country’s partner for the ...
News Uganda » Government: Uganda’s Government Rejects Torture Allegations
Uganda's government is rejecting claims that top officials, including President Yoweri Museveni and his son, were responsible for the torture of political opponents. The International Criminal Court ...
News Uganda » Government: Uganda launches Co-convenorship and Roadmap to the second Global Refugee Forum
KAMPALA - The Government of Uganda, through the Office of the Prime Minister, and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the UN refugee agency, launched the Uganda roadmap towards ...
News Uganda » Government: Has Uganda’s gold tax incentive run its course?
For policymakers, the clock is ticking on a choice between continuing an expensive experiment or rewriting the rules of Uganda’s mineral wealth Kampala, Uganda | RONALD MUSOKE | For years, Uganda’s ...
News Uganda » Government: Uganda: Government axes gold tax not wanting to lose central role in trade
“I am going to remove that royalty. You were scared of the tax but now we have removed it. The royalty for those in transit has also been removed,” Museveni had said in February 2017, as he launched ...
News Uganda » Government: Arrests occur during anti-corruption protests in Uganda capital
An ongoing march to parliament organized by young people over corruption in the Uganda government led to the arrests of protestors on Tuesday. Joel Ssenyonyi, the leader of the parliamentary ...
News Uganda » Government: Uganda: Military Seizing Government Critics
Uganda's military is arbitrarily seizing government critics, holding them incommunicado, then handing them over for bogus prosecutions, Human Rights Watch said today. These actions are an apparent ...
News Uganda » Government: Uganda takes ‘Pearl Sweet’ crude to global oil buyers
Uganda has spent years building wells, pipelines and plans for a refinery. Now comes another test: persuading international refiners and traders that its crude oil belongs in the global market. That ...