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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.

WE ARE GOING TO CLOSE SHOP – RICE MILLERS.

The Rice Millers Council of Uganda has  this afternoon held a meeting with the Rt. Hon Rebecca Kadaga the 1st Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of East African Community Affairs in Uganda at the Ministry offices on kingdom Kampala building -Nile Avenue to discuss the ongoing imbalance of rice produce and trade between Uganda and Tanzania. The meeting which was attended by representatives from Ministry of Finance and Economics Planning. Ministry of Trade, Investment and Cooperatives, Ministry of Agriculture,...

We Need Easy Access And Movement Across EAC-Member States -UNSA

A delegation from the Uganda National Students’ Association –UNSA led by Mr. Welunga Yusuf have this afternoon held a meeting with The First deputy Prime Minister and Minister of East African Community Affairs in Uganda Rt. Hon. Dr. Alitwala Rebecca Kadaga -MP at the Ministry's head offices in Kampala. The students’ executive raised quit a number of issues to the emeritus of the 9th and 10th Parliament of Uganda of which among them include: • Their working relationship between Government and...

We Need More Capacity Building

The Permanent Secretary of Ministry for East Africa Community Affairs Uganda Mrs. Edith Mwanje (third left) this morning chaired a FrameWise brainstorming meeting to see how women can be involved in peace and security matters so they can be mediators, they can capacity build and can as well mobilize resources. a meeting that was held at the Ministry's main board was well attended and among the notables was former EALA -MP Hon. Dora Byamukama, Dr. Wandera Kazibwe is also a...

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...