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The first Ugandan shilling (UGS) replaced the East African shilling in 1966 at par. Following high inflation, a new shilling (UGX) was introduced in 1987 worth 100 old shillings. The shilling is usually a stable currency and predominates in most financial transactions in Uganda, which has a very efficient foreign exchange market with
Uganda: Ugandan shilling: Sh or Shs (pl.) UGX (none) (none) Ukraine: Ukrainian hryvnia ₴ UAH Kopeck: 100 United Arab Emirates: United Arab Emirates dirham: Dh or Dhs (pl.) AED Fils: 100 United Kingdom: Sterling £ GBP Penny: 100 United States: United States dollar $ USD Cent [A] 100 Uruguay: Uruguayan peso $ UYU Centésimo: 100 Uzbekistan ...
Some countries have not changed their currency despite being post-colonial, for example Uganda retains the Ugandan shilling. Many African countries change their currency's appearance when a new government takes power (often the new head of state will appear on bank notes), though the notional value remains the same.
Ugandan military prosecutors on Monday added a charge of "treachery" - which carries the death penalty - to the list of violations of military law they say were committed by a prominent opposition ...
20 shillings 1 pound: P22 Blue-black on yellow and orange underprinting, back brown 100 shillings 5 pounds: P23 Blue-black on lilac underprinting, back red-brown 200 shillings 10 pounds: P24 Blue-black on gray-blue underprinting 1000 shillings 50 pounds: P25 Blue-black on light brown underprinting 10,000 shillings 500 pounds: P26 Blue-black on ...
KAMPALA (Reuters) - Uganda's Constitutional Court on Monday took a first step toward hearing a challenge to an anti-gay law that rights activists and Western governments have denounced as draconian.
Unlike elsewhere in the possessions of the British Empire that used the sterling, in British East Africa the shilling instead of the pound was the primary unit of account, with the pound being a superunit mainly used for recording government and business transactions whose totals would be needlessly large if quoted solely in shillings.
A Ugandan court on Tuesday dismissed a petition by an LGBT advocacy group seeking to compel the government to register it, a lawyer for the petitioner said. Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG) first ...