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USMID: OUTSTANDING LOCAL GOVERNMENTS NAMED
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SUMMARY: Mubende Municipality has emerged as the best-performing local government in the Uganda Support to Municipal Infrastructure Development (USMID) programme. It achieved the highest overall average score of 79.2%, the best performance under the entire World Bank-funded programme over the past five years.
PRESIDENT MUSEVENI HOSTS EX KENYAN PRESIDENT KENYATTA
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SUMMARY: President Yoweri Museveni on Thursday hosted former Kenyan president Uhuru Kenyatta, who paid a courtesy call on him at State House, Entebbe. Kenyatta had earlier participated in the Annual Guild Leaders’ Summit 2025, held at Makerere University, where he was the keynote speaker.
IGG VOWS TO PUNISH TEAM BEHIND SHODDY WORK ON ISIMBA DAM
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SUMMARY: The Inspectorate Government (IGG) has vowed to hold to account all those responsible for the poor quality of works at the Isimba Hydropower Plant. This was revealed by the Inspector General of Government, Hon. Betty Kamya, during her visit to the 183MW Isimba Dam in Kayunga district on Friday.
URA BANS IMPORTED GROUPAGE CARGO CLEARANCE
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SUMMARY: The Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) has banned the practice of clearing imported groupage or consolidated cargo with immediate effect. This follows URA’S observation of increasing abuse of the process by fraudulent individuals commonly known as container leaders.
SPORTS EDITION [DAILY MONITOR]
HATS OFF KIPLIMO
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SUMMARY: Adecent yet not perfect performance was expected of Jacob Kiplimo from his 42km debut at the London Marathon in the English capital yesterday. However, Kiplimo only showed that his prowess on the road knows no boundaries after he finely fitted into the elite class to powerto a stellar second place at the Abbott World Marathon Major (WMM)
