Daily Monitor
Thursday February 11 2021
Containers. President Museveni accompanied by senior Kenyan and Ugandan government officials tour parts of Mombasa port in 2019 as containers await clearing. PHOTO/FILE
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From Naivasha to Kampala costs $1,700 (Shs6.2m) - $1,850 (Shs6.8m) both based on round trip (with empty container return). For an empty container return via Naivasha to Mombasa, there is an additional last mile cost in Mombasa to teack the empty container from the SGR to the nominated depot.
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Government of Kenya allocated Uganda 20 hectares of land to build an inland container port at Naivasha.
This ICD was aimed at bringing Mombasa port closer to Uganda as Kenya’s standard gauge railway will be used to bring the containers from Mombasa port to Naivasha where they will be cleared from by Ugandan traders.
Daily Monitor
Tuesday January 19 2021
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In an earlier interview last week, Mr Peter Kawumi, the chairperson of Financial Technology and Service Providers Association, told Daily Monitor that on a daily basis 300 million transactions are carried out by means of Fintech system alone in the country.
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The Internet shutdown that started on January 13 has caused huge losses as businesses, government agencies, organisations and web-based operations such as e-tax payments were disrupted for five days.
The State action has been described as inconsiderate due to the modern ways of conducting business through e-commerce.
On the eve of the election, government shut down Internet citing security reasons during the elections for President and Members of Parliament.
Daily Monitor
Thursday January 14 2021
Ugandan police officers and members of Local Defence Units, a paramilitary force composed of civilians, on curfew patrol in Kamapla in April 2020.
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The government will deploy security personnel on all rooftops of Kampala’s arcades and tall buildings to ensure security in the capital as Ugandans go to the polls today.
Kampala Metropolitan Police spokesperson Patrick Onyango said the security decision was informed by violent protests in and around Kampala in November.
He said police intelligence and CCTV footage analysis indicated that people who were leading the rioters operated on rooftops of arcades to give instructions to the protesters.
According to the Kampala metropolitan police spokesperson, Patrick Onyango, following CCTV footage analysis in recent days, security personnel on ground have been targeted by unscrupulous people at arcade rooftops.
Onyango says in such incidents, a one Elijah Mukiibi has succumbed to gunshot wounds inflicted on him by security officers.
He maintains the move is NOT aimed at intimidating Ugandans in anyway.
Onyango has also singled out an incident that happened along Nabukeera Auto parts arcade where officers on ground were allegedly pelted with stones.
Meanwhile, the chairperson Kampala City Traders Association (KACITA) Everest Kayondo says they are okay with the development as it’s intended to strengthen security.
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