Busein Samilu

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The government is in the final stages of starting the licensing process for more than one million artisanal miners currently operating illegally, according to Ms Agnes Alaba, the Commissioner for Geological Survey and Mines at the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Development. The licensing process falls under the new Mining and Minerals Act, 2022, which introduced small-scale and artisanal mining licenses to formalize and regulate a sector that has long remained informal and largely unmonitored.

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What you need to know:Mr Kasaija told a sparsely populated House that the money was needed to fund the current budget. With less than two months to the end of the current 2024/2025 Financial Year, the Parliament yesterday gave the government a go-ahead to borrow up to €500 million (Shs2.066 trillion) to finance the current Shs72.1 trillion budget.

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The administrator of the Namugongo Muslim site has criticised the government over what he called the continuous sidelining of the Muslims in developing the site. Mr Musa Nsubuga, the administrator of Namugongo Muslim Martyrs Site, told Daily Monitor that despite more than 100 Muslim martyrs being killed between 1874 and 1876, the government has never taken an initiative to develop the site as it did at the Catholic shrine and the Anglican site.

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“…My name is Luyimbazi Nalukoola, a Member of Parliament for Kawempe North, who was elected after great violence. My election Mr Speaker was decorated by brutality from the members of the armed forces and indeed the Electoral Commission every time we could report, it could lament helplessly…” These were some of the words of Mr Elias Luyimbazi Nalukoola as he delivered his maiden speech on the floor of Parliament, 13 days after he was sworn in as the MP of Kawempe North Constituency.

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A combined team of students from Gulu and Cavendish universities has emerged as first runner-up in the Cloud Track category at the prestigious Huawei Global ICT Competition (2024–2025), showcasing Uganda’s growing strength in digital innovation and tech skills. The announcement was made on May 24 during the closing awards gala in Shenzhen, China, marking the culmination of the competition’s 9th edition.