Politics & Goverment

Ugandan Parliament approves UGX49.98 trillion 2023/24 budget proposals

Jeff WintersNews & AnalysisPolitics & GovermentThe Big StoryFebruary 3, 2023February 3, 2023

The Ugandan Parliament on 31 January 2023 passed the Budget Framework Paper with proposals of to spend UGX49.98 trillion (USD13.6 billion) for the financial year 2023/2024. The passing of the…

OPINION: The Role of RDCs, MPs in Countering Theft of Government Medicines in Public Health Facilities

theceomaPolitics & GovermentThought LeadershipJanuary 17, 2023January 17, 2023

By Mike Ssegawa While President Museveni was launching the National Medical Stores (NMS) pharmaceutical warehouse in Kajjansi, off Entebbe road, in November 2022, he made a statement on drug theft…

Uganda: Finance minister presents UGX49.9 trillion (USD13.7 billion) national budget framework

Muhereza KyamuteteraPolitics & GovermentThe Big StoryDecember 25, 2022December 25, 2022

The Ugandan government has tabled the National Budget Framework Paper totalling UGX49.9 trillion for the Financial Year 2023/2024. The document, which paves way for the budget approval process by Parliament,…

Parliament gives nod to UGX1.2 trillion government loan for electricity access approved

CEO ReporterNews & AnalysisPolitics & GovermentNovember 23, 2022November 23, 2022

Parliament of Uganda has approved a request for government to borrow up to US$331.5 million (UGX1.23 trillion), from the International Development Association of the World Bank Group, upon which it…

The rise and death of Uganda Telecom and the birth of the new UTCL, a new 100% state-owned telco. But has Gov’t really learnt or forgotten anything?

The CEO Magazine TeamBusiness & MarketsCompany NewsPolitics & GovermentThe Big StoryNovember 6, 2022March 23, 2023

In the period leading to the 2011 fall and subsequent death of Libyan Leader, Col Muammar Muhammad al-Gaddafi in October 2011, Uganda Telecom was a promising company. The previously state-owned…

EXCLUSIVE: Uganda Telecom dissolved; newly formed Gov’t owned telco buys assets at USD 81.3 million

Muhereza KyamuteteraBusiness & MarketsPolitics & GovermentThe Big StoryOctober 30, 2022April 9, 2024

Uganda Telecom, the troubled former Libyan and Ugandan governments-owned telco has been sold to a newly formed Uganda government telco at UGX316.4 billion, CEO East Africa Magazine can exclusively reveal….

Q&A: Two years of Dorothy Kisaka at KCCA— the wins, the misses, revitalizing a Covid-19 shaken Smart City strategy and why winning the trust of Kampala’s political leadership is key

Muhereza KyamuteteraCEO PerspectivesNews & AnalysisPolitics & GovermentThe Big StoryWomen In LeadershipOctober 8, 2022October 8, 2022

For starters, what are your overall comments on the results of the snap poll versus what in your view, the Authority has been able to implement and or achieve in…

Uganda’s Ministries, Departments & Agencies with a huge Twitter following

CEO East Africa MagazineNews & AnalysisPolitics & GovermentJune 27, 2022June 28, 2022

Twitter is one of the major social media platforms that managed to attract various Uganda government agencies to publicize and promote their daily activities. Below is a compilation of some…

PROFILE: Anita Among – Uganda’s second female speaker of Parliament since independence

CEO ReporterNews & AnalysisPolitics & GovermentWomen In LeadershipMarch 31, 2022April 1, 2022

On March 20, 2022, Uganda was saddened by the death news of Speaker of Parliament, Jacob Oulanyah who succumbed to cancer in Seattle, USA. Hardly a week after, in respect…

All you need to know about Thomas Tayebwa, Uganda’s New Deputy Speaker

Nelson NambooleNews & AnalysisPolitics & GovermentMarch 29, 2022March 29, 2022

On Friday March 25, 2022, the House sitting at Kololo ceremonial grounds elected Thomas Tayebwa as the Deputy Speaker of Uganda’s 11th Parliament, taking over from Among Anita Annet who…