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We need single currency in the region – women traders from cross boarder

Rt. Hon. 1st Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of East African Community Affairs in Uganda today held a meeting with the Uganda Women Cross Boarder Traders-(UWCBT) at the Ministry's head offices located on Nile Avenue on Kingdom Kampala Building. The women were led by their chairperson and accompanied by the chairman of Cross Boarder Members of Parliament Hon. Macho Godfrey MP Busia Municipality. Among the key bottle necks that hinder smooth transaction of business at the boarder that the women tabled...

September 17, 20210 CommentsRead more...

1st Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of East African Community Affairs in Uganda RT. Hon Rebecca Alitwala Kadaga met with the youth from Africa Kwetu Students Organisation led by their group leader Kiiza Eric

1st Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of East African Community Affairs in Uganda RT. Hon Rebecca Alitwala Kadaga met with the youth from Africa Kwetu Students Organisation led by their group leader Kiiza Eric who called on her at the Ministry’s offices on Kingdom Kampala building located on Nile Avenue with a Certificate of Appreciation. The Africa Kwetu youths are so passionate about youth participation in promoting and marketing of Uganda’s involvement in the East African Community. The RT. Hon Minister...

September 16, 20210 CommentsRead more...

Mrs. Asiimwe Caroline a lecturer at Makerere University met the 1st Deputy Prime Minister and minister of East African Community Affairs Rt. Hon. Rebecca Alitwala Kadaga

This afternoon , Mrs. Asiimwe Caroline a lecturer at Makerere University met the 1st Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of East African Community Affairs - Rt. Hon. Rebecca Alitwala Kadaga at the Ministry’s offices located on Plot 31A-35A & 37A-39A Nile Avenue, 2nd floor Kingdom Kampala Building. One of Mrs. Asiimwe’s concerns was mainstreaming Kiswahili in Uganda’s National Agenda for regional Integration and sustainable development. She said “this is a project funded by the Government of Uganda through Makerere University Research...

September 15, 20210 CommentsRead more...

Courtesy visit by the delegation of the East African Community Parliamentary committee on East African Affairs

A delegation of the East African Community Parliamentary committee on East African Affairs this morning,  paid a courtesy visit to the 1st Deputy Premier and Cabinet Minister of East African Community Affairs RT. Hon. Rebecca Alitwala Kadaga. The Minister made remarks on one of the broad functions of the Parliamentary committee on East African Community Affairs which hinge on Free Movement of Persons, Labor, Services, Right of Establishment and Residence. the delegation was headed by the Chairperson of Parliamentary committee on...

September 15, 20210 CommentsRead more...

Ugandans with Old Passports are left with 6 months to renew travel documents

Ugandans with old passports are left with less than six months to be able to renew their travel documents or else they will not be able to fly or travel out of the country , the Ministry of Internal Affairs has said. Following the introduction of the new East African E-passport, Government of Uganda has mulled plans to have the old machine-readable passports phased out for the new ones.

September 14, 20210 CommentsRead more...