Google, Convergence Partners, International Finance Corporation (“IFC”), and Mitsui & Co., Ltd. (“Mitsui”) have signed an agreement to invest in CSquared, a broadband infrastructure company focused on building wholesale metro fibre optic networks and enabling...
Uganda's urban poor will access clean water at a more affordable rate after the Ministry of Water proposed revised water tariffs. National Water and Sewerage Corporation boss Eng. Silver Mugisha told members of a parliamentary committee...
Authorities in Mitooma District are ready to prosecute three young men who were recently nabbed with stolen cattle. Pretazio Kasimiire, the Officer in Charge of Criminal Investigations Department Mitooma District, identified the suspects as Turyahabwe...
From a humble beginning in Jinja district in 1992, FINCA Uganda is this year celebrating 25 years of existence under the category of microfinance deposit taking (MDI). The bank's founders and staff will be a time...
Outgoing Saudi Arabian ambassador, Dr. Jamal bin Abdulaziz Raffa, has been informed by President Yoweri Museveni that the government will support an investor to build a tea factory in Luwero District, State House said on...
Completion of the 51km Kampala–Entebbe Expressway is to be delayed for another one year due to unresolved compensation issues. The four-lane toll highway was meant to be completed by November 2017. Following the tour of...
A creditors meeting that will decide the fate of Uganda’s oldest telecom company - Uganda Telecom (UTL) is ongoing in Kampala. TheUgandan reported about the how top managers of UTL, CEO Mark Shoebridge, board chair...
A new war is brewing between local telecommunications firms, MTN and Africell Uganda after the former switched off connection with their rival. The incident happened on Tuesday an social media was awash with rants as...
Uganda Telecom Managing Director Mark Shoebridge and Corporation Secretary David Nambale have reportedly been fired over exorbitantly high salaries and refused to take pay cuts. Mr Shoebridge was receiving Shs.150m per month as gross pay...
The body which manages public land, Uganda Land Commission says it’s facing a number of challenges which hinders it from carrying out its work effectively. Appearing before the land inquiry committee chaired by Justice Catherine...
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