Month: July 2024

By Catherine Ageno The Uganda Tourism Board (UTB) has embarked on an aggressive campaign to promote Uganda as a destination choice for medical tourism, not only within the East African region but with eyes on the entire global market. During a recent engagement with media practitioners at Queen Elizabeth National […]

Government has promised that in FY2024/25, it will further support the Emyooga poverty alleviation projects to reach their full potential as there has been strong recognition for the need to prioritize scaling up, promising occupational groups/enterprises through various interventions. According to the Ministry of Finance records, as of June, 2023, government […]

The Japanese Ambassador to Uganda,Sasayama Takuya has said young people in Uganda should be guided to appreciate agriculture as a business that would empower them economically. Sasayama who had accompanied Yohei Sasakawa, the visiting Chairman of Nippon Foundation, Tokyo Japan, during his visit to Zimbabwe Agaliawamu Agri-Business Training Association acknowledged […]

A new report by United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) has revealed that domestically, there has been an uptick in Household Final Consumption Expenditure as a percentage of Gross Domestic Product (GDP), rising from 67.2percent in FY2022/23 to 67.6percent in FY2023/24. The report shows that total household spending […]

Ministry of Health officials, have commended the outgoing World Health Organisation (WHO) Country Representative to Uganda, Dr Yonas Tegegn Woldemariam for not losing guard, during his term of office that was dominated by a fatal combination of new and old epidemics. Speaking at the farewell dinner organized for him by […]