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Ugandan MPs have rejected the projected budget cuts in the tourism sector, saying it is a key contributor to foreign revenue and a remedy to debt burden.
The Joint Chief of Staff of the Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF), Maj Gen Leopold Kyanda has said the number of detained persons circulated by activists is an exaggeration.
It was the country’s first Sudan ebolavirus outbreak in a decade and its fifth overall for this kind of Ebola.
Although Uganda’s Finance ministry released the wage component for the last quarter, its officials continue to receive factual complaints of some civil servants who have not yet received their salaries.
Ugandan MPs want the Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development to explain the recent shift from sector-based to programme-based budgeting.
Three Ugandan peacekeepers in Somalia have died after their colleague turned his gun on them while on a shooting rampage, APA has learnt.
The minority leader of the Ugandan parliament Mathias Mpuuga, has rallied the church to support efforts by the opposition to amend the constitution.
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has said that the government of DR Congo should go to the negotiating table with the M23 rebel movement to stop hostilities in the east of the country.
Ugandan health officials say they have noticed a drop in the number of Ebola infections in the country, where no new cases have been reported for at least two weeks.
There seems to be a growing gulf between Uganda’s veteran leader Yoweri Museveni and his abrasive twitter-loving son who is openly defiant over his use of the social media platform.