City Businesswoman Charged in Major Agro-Chemical Counterfeit Crackdown.

City businesswoman dealing in Agro-Chemicals has been charged for alleged counterfeiting of a trade mark to sell substandard products. Evlyn Kunahimbire, 35, a resident of Matugga was arraigned before the Magistrates Court at Buganda Road and denied the offences of forging trade mark, selling of goods with false marks,...

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Who will eat the contaminated maize rejected by Kenya?

The past few days have left some Ugandans who know in a spot of bother because of the story of Kenya banning export of Ugandan maize contaminated with aflatoxins. The Daily Monitor online delivered another headline on the 8th March 2021 titled, “Kenya adds Maize, Chicken and Eggs on...

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Election Violence: Uganda should learn from the Kenyan experience of 2007.

Political violence also known as Electoral violence has unfortunately already played and is anticipated to play a major role in determining the feel and outcome of the upcoming 2021 general elections.Whereas competitive elections are by their very nature conflictual processes intended to mobilize divergent views and stimulate political competition...

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Blame fake COVID-19 results on Counterfeit Culture.

While responding to the reading of Uganda’s 2020/2021 national budget on the 11/6/2020, President Museveni revealed that some of the 697 people tested recently, had been erroneously classified as having tested positive for COVID19 whereas they were negative. I don’t know why the President was surprised by this phenomenon...

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The 1st CEO Structured Dialogue on Counterfeits

The Anti-Counterfeit Network (ACN) convened its first-ever CEO Structured Dialogue, bringing together industry leaders to address the growing prevalence of counterfeit products, services, and the broader counterfeit subculture in Uganda and the region. The dialogue highlighted the significant threat counterfeits pose to legitimate businesses, foreign direct investment, employment, and...

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