Exim Bank has donated over 110 hospital mattresses, sanitary towels, diapers, milk, sugar, clothes and other essential items to the Female Ward in Butabika Hospital. The Bank also painted the waiting room at the Female Convalescent Ward. This was on the Bank’s recent visit to the hospital where they were
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The Annual Headline (total) Inflation for the year ending November 2017 lowered to 4.0% compared to the 4.8% recorded in October 2017, says Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS). Releasing the Consumer Price Index (CPI) for November 2017 at Statistics House on Thursday, Paul Mungyereza, the UBOS Executive Director revealed that
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The Federation of Uganda Football Associations (FUFA) has revealed plans to professionalise and commercialise Express FC. In a statement on his official facebook page on Thursday, Moses Magogo, the FUFA President said they have embarked on a five year strategic plan to make Express better. “At the end of the
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On the eve of World AIDS Day (December 1) Johnson & Johnson announced that its Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies together with a consortium of global partners have initiated the first efficacy study for an investigational mosaic HIV-1 preventive vaccine. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and National Institutes of Health are
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Mityana Municipality lawmaker Francis Zaake has vowed to begin from where he stopped when he returns from the United States of America (USA) where he has been undergoing treatment for injuries he suffered in a parliamentary scuffle. Zaake who says he has been given glasses to aid his vision warned
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By Peter Abaanabasazi He is 75 years old, but he goes about his farming activities with ease. Sedrach Mwijakubi Munyema, 75, is one of the leading model farmers in Kigorobya and neighboring Sub-Counties-for he is earning over Shs20m annually from mixed farming. In summary, he is already living President Museveni’s
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A tribal militia killed at least 43 people in South Sudan’s Jonglei state, local officials said on Wednesday, extending a spate of tit-for-tat revenge killings. Raiders from the Murle ethnic group killed 20 men, 22 women and one child, and injured 19 people in the village of Duk Payel on
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Israel will pay the Rwandan government $5,000 for every African asylum seeker it accepts from Israel, Channel 10 reported Sunday. A senior government official confirmed the report to Haaretz. The Israeli government will additionally continue to pay asylum seekers who voluntarily leave the country a grant of $3,500, as well
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Shocking details have emerged why Israeli Premier Benjamin Netanyahu met with Uganda President and other African leaders on the day Kenya President Uhuru Kenyatta took oath for a second term in office. Netanyahu flew to Kenya on Tuesday morning for a lightning visit that included meetings with 11 African leaders.
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Employers have welcomed President Uhuru Kenyatta’s Tuesday announcement that Kenya is opening its borders to Africans, arguing it is a step in the right direction, reports the Daily Nation. Kenyatta announced, shortly after he was sworn in for a second term, that any African wishing to visit Kenya will be
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