Uganda can own feet without aid, says minister

Uganda can stand on her own and fully fund its budget even if all Western countries decided to withdraw financial support over the anti-gay law, the Finance minister has said.

TheCitizen

Habari Zinazoendana

10 years ago

TheCitizen

18 Mar

Belgium threatens to cut $12m aid to Uganda

Kampala. Uganda on Monday stood by plans to send more than 240 of its health workers to the Caribbean despite a Belgian threat to cut 11 million euros in aid. Last week Belgium’s cooperation minister, Alexander De Croo, said his country was suspending a transfer of development money destined for the east African nation’s health sector.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

27 Apr

Sh34bn aid to Uganda still frozen over doctors export

>Belgium deputy Prime Minister Alexander De Croo has said his country’s €uro 11 million (about sh34 billion) aid to Uganda remains frozen as a sign of discontent over government adamancy to export at least 263 medical specialists, 90 per cent from public hospitals, to the Caribbean island of Trinidad and Tobago.

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

07 Mar

US: We may shift Uganda aid to alternative needy country

>US Ambassador Scott H. DeLisi has come out to explain why he kept away from the launch of an HIV-prevention campaign organised by First Lady Janet Museveni.

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

22 Mar

US not cutting aid in response to Uganda anti-homosexuality law

The United States has not cut any aid to Uganda in response to the recently enacted anti-homosexuality law, the State Department said on Wednesday.

 

10 years ago

BBC

Uganda's prime minister sacked

Uganda's president sacks his prime minister, a former close ally now seen as a potential rival for 2016 elections.

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

24 Jan

Minister survives lynching over land dispute in Uganda

>Chaos ensued as a minister and district officials fled in different directions from a charged crowd that claimed the officials had come to grab their land.

 

9 years ago

TheCitizen

14 Sep

Uganda, envoys mourn death of Internal Affairs minister

By press time tributes continued to flow for Gen Aronda Nyakairima who served as army commander from 2003 to 2013. He was both Minister for Internal Affairs and an Army representative in Parliament.

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

16 Jul

Tazara must stand on own feet

The Tanzania-Zambia Railway Authority (Tazara) has been thrown a lifeline after the two partner nations agreed to inject $80 million (Sh136 billion) into the struggling firm in the next 12 months.

 

11 years ago

BBC

From bare feet to Barca and beyond

From playing in bare feet to Barca and beyond

 

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