DHL-Ethiopian Airlines agree to build leading cargo logistics provider in Africa: DHL Global Forwarding and Ethiopian Airlines have signed a new agreement to form a joint venture company – DHL-Ethiopian Airlines Logistics Services Ltd to build the Leading Cargo Logistics provider JV company in Africa. The company will be based in Ethiopia and will do […]
The United States government and the Government of Uganda have launched a new five year, $32.8 million program that will provide better health services to nine districts in the Lango sub region of Northern Uganda. The USAID Regional Health Integration to Enhance Services in Northern Uganda program is projected to cover the region’s estimated population […]
BY SAMSON OKWAKOL KAMPALA, Uganda—The MTN Uganda has said it wants to government investigate the recent break-in to the telecoms data center by alleged security operatives. “MTN (U) takes this criminal incident seriously and is working with the government of Uganda to establish the identity and motive of the perpetrators and bring them to account,” […]
BY SAMSON OKWAKOL KAMPALA, Uganda–Ford Motor Company has said as part of its 19th annual Sustainability Report it has met its goal to reduce manufacturing emissions – eight years ahead of schedule. In 2010, Ford’s Environmental Quality Office announced a goal – to reduce the company’s carbon dioxide emissions from manufacturing operations by 30 percent […]
BY SAMUEL NABWIISO KAMPALA, Uganda–Infinix one of the leading manufacture of smart phones in the world has today unveiled its new smartphone device Note 5 on the Ugandan market. The new Note 5 is powered by Android one; “Beyond Intelligence” the smartphone is part of the Android one program designed to deliver software experienced by Google. […]
BY SAMSON OKWAKOL KAMPALA, Uganda—Uganda Dairy Development Authority has indicated that milk production in Uganda has increased from 2.08 billion litres in 2015 to about 2.5 billion litres in 2017/18. According to a press statement sent to this publication by Uganda Dairy Development Authority , about 80% of the total national milk produced is marketed […]
BY SAMSON OKWAKOL Kampala, Uganda–Airtel Uganda has launched a partnership with Kwesé iflix a mobile platform offering cutting edge programming, live sports, video on demand and download to watch later entertainment to deliver mobile TV services in Uganda. This partnership comes just a few weeks after Airtel Uganda announced countrywide 3G broadband connectivity in a […]
BY SAMSON OKWAKOL SEETA, Mukono–The Speaker of Parliament of Uganda, Rebecca Kadaga, has called for the review of the decentralisation policy and increase in funding for Local Governments if they are to be effective. Kadaga said that the decentralisation policy in its current state promotes individualism. She said that whilst decentralisation has created jobs, Ugandans […]
BY SAMSON OKWAKOL KAMPALA, Uganda—the performance of the economy report for May 2018 released by the Ministry of Finance has indicated continued improvement in Uganda’s economic activity. The report indicates that Composite Index of Economic Activity (CIEA) increased by 0.2% from 212.5 in March 2018 to 212.9 in April 2018, reflecting continued improvement in economic […]
BY SAMSON OKWAKOL KAMPALA, Uganda–The Members of Parliament from Lang Sub-region under their umbrella association the Lango Parliamentary Group have asked government to develop a structured and concerted national strategy to curb road incidents. This follows a tragic accident which happened on the night of Friday May 25th, 2018, in which twenty-two (22) people lost […]