The President expresses his sincere condolences to the families and friends for the loss of their loved ones and wishes a speedy recovery to the injured PRETORIA, South Africa, June 25, 2018,-/African Media Agency (AMA)/- H.E. President Cyril Ramaphosa has, on behalf of the Government and people of South Africa,
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Photo cred: Fall Armyworm Nigeria 2017. G. Goergen, IITA. KAMPALA, Uganda, 25 June 2018,-/African Media Agency (AMA) /- The Fall Armyworm Tech Prize seeks digital tools and approaches that provide timely, context-specific information enabling smallholder farmers and those who support them to identify, treat, and track incidence of fall armyworm
Read MoreWe can now say it with total certainty: England are going to win the World Cup! Okay, perhaps we're getting a touch carried away. Let's downgrade slightly and say instead that if England can win their group they stand a far better chance of going further in the tournament. Not
Read MoreAnalysts at the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) have revealed Africa’s most indebted countries based on their debt to GDP ratio. In its latest Economic Insight Report for Africa released on June19, 2018, ICAEW placed Mozambique as the number one most indebted country in Africa after
Read MoreChief executives of publicly traded Kenyan banks are paid nearly 50 times what the median bank employee earns, the latest executive pay data shows, offering insight into the extent of wage inequalities in Kenya’s private sector, reports Business Daily. This remuneration structure means a typical bank employee in Kenya will
Read MoreUganda's National Agricultural Research Organisation (NARO) has launched mobile Apps to ease access to information on agricultural research. The NARO digital platforms were launched on Saturday morning by Dr. Imelda N. Kashaija, the Agricultural Technology Promotion's Deputy Director General at the Uganda Media Center. The platforms launched include: NARO SMS
Read MoreSouth Sudan offered to allow a rebel representative to join its government on Friday, but ruled out Riek Machar, saying they had “had enough” of the rebel leader after five years of civil war. “Machar cannot be part of government. We have had enough of him,” Information Minister Michael Makuei
Read MoreBy Aloysious Kasoma Orient Bank Uganda has marked 25 years of banking business under the guardianship of a successful family. The bank which has since hit 23 branches and 25 ATMs across the country held its celebrations at Serena Hotel on the Tuesday. Speaking during the event, the founder and
Read MoreEthiopia’s new Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed escaped a grenade attack on Saturday at a rally in the capital that killed one person and left scores wounded, officials and witnesses said. The attack was launched by an unidentified assailant moments after 41-year-old prime minister, a former soldier who took office in
Read MoreAn explosion rocked a stadium in Zimbabwe where President Emmerson Mnangagwa was addressing a political rally on Saturday, his spokesman said, adding the head of state was unhurt and taken to safety. "There has been an incident at Bulawayo (White City Stadium) where the president was addressing a rally. This
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