Daily Monitor
Friday January 22 2021
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Ms Sophie Njuba says: While experiencing an ongoing pandemic, shutting down the Internet was not a wise move.
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As Ugandans prepared to head to the polls to vote their presidential and Parliament leaders on January 14, the government had different plans for them. With tensions high on how the elections would go, the Uganda Communications Commission (UCC), working with the Ministry of Information and Communication Technology, shut down Internet connection in the country on January 13. For the first time in a digital economy, the country was without Internet connectivity for five days, even with Access to Information Act in place.
Daily Monitor
Thursday December 24 2020
Tourism will be a key focus area as government seeks to change focus on creating employment. PHOTO | FILE
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Government will in the next financial year anchor its planning on maximising job creation through tourism, travel, manufacturing, construction, services, and trade.
However, agriculture will continue to be a key area as government seeks to turn it from subsistence to a cash-based sector.
The details are contained in the 2020/21 National Budget Framework Paper drawn by Ministry of Finance.
According to the Ministry of Finance, out of the 9.1 million Ugandans employed outside subsistence agriculture in 2017, which makes up 60 per cent of the working population), majority were in agriculture (3,257,800k, representing 35.8 per cent) followed by the services sector outside trade (2,639,000, representing 29 per cent), trade (2,065,700, translating into 22.7 per cent) and construction (1,137,500; which represent
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