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PRESIDENT MUSEVENI ASSUMES CHAIR OF THE 19TH NAM SUMMIT

Bishop Samuel The 19th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) is held in the Ugandan capital of Kampala under the theme: Deepening Cooperation for Shared Global Affluence. Featuring 50 heads of state and government as well as regional agencies who will deliberate on re-balancing international relations. President Yoweri Museveni in his address said that the emergence of the NAM was a necessary antidote to the irrational polarization of the world of that time between the Capitalist Western countries and the Communist, mainly...

Permanent Secretaries and Senior Technical Officers of Kenya And Uganda In a Biletral a Meeting.

Permanent Secretary, Ministry for East African Community Uganda, Mrs Edith Mwanje. The long-awaited bilateral engagement between the Republic of Kenya and the Republic of Uganda finally got to its arrival dates of happening. The engagement is hosted in the Republic of Kenya at Winston Hotel, Nairobi, with the Permanent Secretaries and senior technical officers of both countries convening in Lenana one hall. The session began in the morning, and its discussion was based on policy frameworks, trade, and investment. Later this...

Performance Of EAC Protocols in Uganda

Members of the East Africa Legislative Assembly committee of Laws, Rules and Privileges chaired by Hon. Mukasa F. Mbidde came in to access the status of the axle load control act, ratification of protocols and implementation of East Africa Community laws at Ministry of East African Community in Uganda Main Boardroom. During the meeting, ministries of : Gender, Justice, UNRA, Works were represented respectively. The EAC - Legislatures were informed that Uganda has ratified the ICT protocol and the protocol to...

Open Up Saccos

World over, the fight against poverty has no documented formula, but its the duty of government to ensure that its citizens can live an affordable life. that’s why diagnostics based on real economics are done and programs to eradicate poverty are developed. The Government of Uganda embarked on a Parish Development Model sensitization exercise a bottom-up approach to budgeting, aimed at moving national development planning to the grassroots. Article 176 of Uganda’s constitution provides for decentralisation “to ensure people’s participation and democratic control in...