Ministry of Finance, Planning & Economic Development. The Ministry is headed by the Minister assisted by five Ministers of State namely: Planning Investment Privatization Micro Finance and Enterprise Development The Permanent Secretary/Secretary to the Treasury (PS/ST) is the Chief Executive. He is assisted by the Deputy Secretary to the Treasury. The Ministry has three Directorates Read more…
Gumutindo Coffee Cooperative – Mbale – Uganda
Gumutindo Coffee Cooperative. are a cooperative of 10,122 small holder expert coffee farmers. We live and farm on the misty ridges and in the lush upland valleys of Africa’s largest, extinct volcano: the majestic Mt. Elgon in Eastern Uganda. We will strive to bring benefits to our communities by working together across the supply chain Read more…
White Nile River – Uganda
The White Nile is a river of Africa, one of the two main tributaries of the Nile; the other is the Blue Nile. In the strict meaning, “White Nile” refers to the river formed at Lake Victoria, at the confluence of the Bahr al Jabal and Bahr el Ghazal Rivers. In the wider sense, “White Read more…
Mbarara University of Science and Technology (MUST) – Mbarara – Uganda
Mbarara University of Science and Technology also known as MUST lies on the banks of the scenic meandering Rwizi River a tributary of Lake Victoria in Mbarara Municipality along the Kabale highway, 286 kilometers, southwest of Kampala, the capital city of Uganda. As one of the main Rivers in the region, the Rwizi is a Read more…
Kibale National Park – Uganda
Kibale National Park contains one of the loveliest and most varied tracts of tropical forest in Uganda. Forest cover, interspersed with patches of grassland and swamp, dominates the northern and central parts of the park on an elevated plateau. The park is home to a total of 70 mammal species, most famously 13 species of Read more…
Uganda Coffee Development Authority (UCDA) – Kampala – Uganda
The Uganda Coffee Development Authority (UCDA) came in existence with the passing of the UCDA Bill by the National Resistance Council of 1991 and the Presidential assent to the UCDA Statute of July 12, 1991 (amended in 1994) with the mandate to oversee the coffee subsector. The authority works under the Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Read more…
Semuliki National Park – Uganda
Semuliki National Park sprawls across the floor of the Semliki Valley on the remote, western side of the Rwenzori. The park is dominated by the easternmost extension of the great Ituri Forest of the Congo Basin. This is one of Africa’s most ancient and bio-diverse forests; one of the few to survive the last ice Read more…
Kidepo Valley National Park – Uganda
Kidepo Valley National Park lies in the rugged, semi arid valleys between Uganda’s borders with Sudan and Kenya, some 700km from Kampala. Gazetted as a national park in 1962, it has a profusion of big game and hosts over 77 mammal species as well as around 475 bird species. Kidepo is Uganda’s most isolated national Read more…
iSimangaliso Wetland Park – South Africa
iSimangaliso Wetland Park (previously known as the Greater St. Lucia Wetland Park) is situated on the east coast of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, about 275 kilometres north of Durban. It is South Africa’s third-largest protected area, spanning 280 km of coastline, from the Mozambican border in the north to Mapelane south of the Lake St. Lucia Read more…
Rwenzori Mountains National Park – Uganda
The Rwenzoris – the fabled Mountains of the Moon – lie in western Uganda along the Uganda-Congo border. The equatorial snow peaks include the third highest point in Africa, while the lower slopes are blanketed in moorland, bamboo and rich, moist montane forest. Huge tree-heathers and colorful mosses are draped across the mountainside with giant Read more…
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