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EAC Youth and YouthLead Africa To Host Business and Investment Breakfast Meeting

A group of East African Youth Ambassadors and Youth –Lead Africa called on the Minister of State for East Africa Affairs in Uganda Hon. Ikuya James Magode. The Youth briefed The Minister on the Kampala High-Level Breakfast meeting which is slated to happen on Thursday 21st October2021 at Skyz Hotel. Hon Ikuya accepted invitation from the Youth to be Chief Guest for the breakfast meeting. In presence was the Ministry’s Principle Gender Officer Mrs. Alarango Florence who guided the youth during...

October 19, 20210 CommentsRead more...

Uganda Rejects EAC-Secretariat Recruitment Interviews

See: meaca_letter The 1st Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of East Africa Community Affairs in Uganda Rt. Hon REBECCA Kadaga, rejects ongoing recruitment exercise EAC due to irregularities of the process. and in her letter she underlines the Secretary General of EAC for not following Council issued rules and regulations as provided for in 2006. so far Burundi and Sudan are backing Uganda ‘s request to postpone interviews.  

October 18, 20210 CommentsRead more...

Impact on the East Africa Chamber of Commerce Trade and Investment summit – Texas

The 16th Annual Trade and Investment Conference was held between the 7th and 9th of October, 2021 at the Marriott Hotel-Las Colinas in Irving, Texas (USA) with the aim of facilitating business-to-business linkages and market opportunities by informing the diaspora about the prospects for investment in countries of East Africa. Expos like this one bring good news regarding progress with Uganda, the East African region and the entire African continent with an experience that expedites trade and investment between the outside...

October 14, 20210 CommentsRead more...

WE NEED SAME TAX EXCEPTIONS

The 1st Deputy Prime Minister And Minister of East African Affairs Community in Uganda Rt. Hon. Rebecca Alitwala Kadaga was chief guest at Uganda - Tanzania at Mutukula boarder Rice Agribusinesses Development Foundation signing a trade MOU. The Ugandan agribusiness traders called upon the Minister's attention on the trade imbalances at the boarder which don't favour them at all. For instance,  one of the most unfairness that the  Ugandan traders at the Mutukula boarder pointed out was Tanzanians exports to...

October 1, 20210 CommentsRead more...

Busoga Sugarcane growers sign MOU

The 1st Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for East African Community Affairs in Uganda RT. Hon. Rebecca Kadaga has this afternoon witnessed signing of an M.O.U( Memorandum of Understanding ) of Greater Busoga Sugar Cane Union. The Union was headed by their chairman who noted that all sugar cane farmers had come to an agreement with the arrangements of sugar cane factory as promised by President Museveni during his 2020 campaign tours in a bid for a 5th term...

September 29, 20210 CommentsRead more...