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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...

Government of Uganda tasks its counterpart South Sudan to scrap off the waiver fees

Government of Uganda has Tasked its counterpart South Sudan to scrap off the waiver fees that are normally imposed against the Ugandan Traders.According to the Minister for East African Community Affairs Rt. Hon Alitwala Rebecca Kadaga in her press briefing held in Kampala, revealed that Uganda is ready to begin charging waiver fees against Sudan with effect from November 2021 if South Sudan does not stop waiver charges within one month.

September 23, 20210 CommentsRead more...

Sugarcane Farmers Demand Factory

The 1st Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of East African Affairs in Uganda and Woman Member of Parliament for Kamuli district  Rt. Hon. Rebecca Kadaga held a consultative meeting with the Busoga Sugarcane Growers Association in a bid to finalise discussions on setting up sugar factories in the region. A meeting that saw the Minister of Finance and economic development in attendance, Hon. Matia Kasaija , unanimously agreed that two sugar cane factories be setup with the first one in Luuka...

September 20, 20210 CommentsRead more...