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Budama West North MP asks government to investigate delay by Kenya to extend SGR to Malaba

Budama West North MP asks government to investigate delay by Kenya to extend SGR to Malaba

Okoth said that the delay could be the intention to sabotage Uganda to join the SGR in Kenya quickly when the Uganda’s SGR reaches malaba after  the Exim bank gets the funds for this project. Kenya’s standard gauge Railway was built from Mombasa to Nairobi and its second phase is to stop at Kisumu leaving […]

MPs on foreign affairs committee say State house officials are frustrating their work

MPs on foreign affairs committee say State house officials are frustrating their work

Members of Parliament on the Parliamentary Committee on Foreign Affairs are bitter with State house over blocking them from meeting the President. While  meeting the Minister of State for International Affairs Okello Oryem the chairperson of the foreign Affairs committee Rose Mutonyi said that they tried to reach the president through state house to voice […]

MPs ask government to look for alternative markets away from South Sudan

MPs ask government to look for alternative markets away from South Sudan

Members of Parliament have asked government to  consolidate its  expansion of markets into countries like the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) as a way of increasing the country’s declining exports due to the on-going war in South Sudan where most traders would send their goods. The executive director of Uganda export promotion Board, Elly Twineyo […]