Due to the overwhelming air traffic expected during the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in 2007, The Civil Aviation Authority has stated the need to expand the passenged terminal to ease airport arrivals and departures. The assistant spokes person Vianney Luggya said that the seven key projects expected to cost sh 35b will be tendered [...]
Uganda has close to 500 tour and travel agents who prepare for over 500,000 tourists estimated to be visiting the country yearly. Some tour firms are authorised to offer gorilla tracking and trekking for chimpanzees by the Uganda Wildlife Authority. I’m happy that we are one of the few.. says Geoffrey Baluku the Manager of [...]
Transport minister John Nasasira has said that the contract to tarmac the Kabale, Kisoro, Bunagana Kyanika road will be signed in September. Nasasira said the delay in tarmacking the road was due to additional costs that were not included by those who evaluated the cost of production. He said after consultation and comparing costs with [...]
A $200,000 (sh370m) modern hockey synthetic pitch will be put up soon. This is after government offered to pay taxes worth sh111m for the turf to be brought in the country. The turf is a donation of the Olympic Solidarity and International Hockey Federation. The development brings an aura of relief to the hockey fraternity, [...]
Serapio Rukundo, State Minister for Tourism has asked the government to fund priority sectors of tourism. The three areas, he said, are Tourism organisation, which currently stands at $260,000 (Shs478 million), Common Market for East and Southern Africa, which they say needs $380,000 (about Shs699 million) and United Nations Industrial Development Organisation that they say [...]
Dr George Bigirwa, a Ugandan scientist, Plant Pathologist and Head of the Cereals Research Programme at the Namulonge Agricultural and Animal Production Research Institute (NAARI)Â has won an award for being Africa’s best paper presenter on rice. This was at a recent Africa Rice Congress in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Bigirwa presented a paper on [...]
Two white rhinos from the USA arrived in the country today at 8. 55p.m aboard a chartered flight, Martin Air. The Executive Director of the Uganda Wildlife Authority, Mr Moses Mapesa said that the two rhinos; male and female, are a donation from Disney Park Zoo in Florida USA. Rhinos became extinct in the 1970s [...]
A delegation of Tourism Uganda and the Uganda tour operators are back after the birding fair in Uk which ran from August 18thto 20th. Speaking about the fair, one of the Tour Operators, Allen Asiimwe of Shoebill Safaris said that sharing information about the endagered species is a great experience which promotes birding safaris in [...]
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