Tanzania's government has ordered a US aid organisation to cease advertising family planning services in the country's media "with immediate effect", news agency Reuters reports. Health Permanent Secretary Mpoki Ulisubisya told the organisation, FHI 360, to implement the order immediately. "I request you to stop with immediate effect airing and
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More than 100 bodies have been retrieved after a ferry sank on Lake Victoria, Tanzanian state radio reported on Friday, and hundreds more were still feared missing as rescuers searched for survivors from daybreak on the morning after the disaster, Reuters reports. Radio TBC Taifa reported the latest toll from
Read MoreMr. Pedro argued if all of these resources were to be properly monetized they could be used as financial assets in the pursuit of resource-driven Industrialisation N’DJAMENA, Chad, September 20, 2018,-/African Media Agency (AMA)/- “Financing industrialization is not only about chasing money,” said Antonio Pedro, Director of the ECA Subregional
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The Tanzanian authorities have confirmed that the MV Nyerere ferry has sunk in Lake Victoria, but they are not yet talking about casualty figures, BBC reports. Hundreds of passengers were believed to have been on board. Regional Commissioner Adam Malima told journalists that the navy and police were travelling to
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Huawei, a leading global Information and Communications Technology solutions provider (“ICT”) has today registered 800 plus I.T students from Universities all over Uganda to take part in the global Huawei ICT competition. This is the first round of registration that happened between 17th and 18th September 2018 at Makerere, Kyambogo,
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The National Forest Authority-NFA has launched a campaign of planting 10 million trees to restore the country's lost forest cover. Reports by NFA indicate that Uganda's forest cover across the country tremendously declined from 24 percent (4,933,271 hectares) of land area in the 1990 to less than the current 9
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If you want to become a qualified lawyer in Uganda, you will need to undergo a two-year Bar Course (Post Graduate Diploma in Law) Law Development Centre (LDC) if government’s plan is implemented. Previously, the Course was for 9 months. The move to extend the duration to two years will
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MTN Uganda in partnership with Mastercard and United Bank for Africa (UBA) have announced a new service that will enable quicker, safer and more convenient online payments globally. Through this partnership, MTN MoMo customers will use a virtual card to shop or make payments at the vast network of global
Read MoreApesar de uma desaceleração económica, a maioria dos países Africanos têm uma perspectiva económica positiva. Isto de acordo com o último relatório do ICAEW (Instituto dos Revisores Oficiais de Contas de Inglaterra e do País de Gales). Numa visão económica: África Q3 2018 lançado hoje, o corpo contabilístico prevê o
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The Speaker of Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga, has called for public involvement in the law making process instead of stampeding the legislature at implementation stage. Citing the United Kingdom where the public is consulted before Bills are presented before Parliament, Kadaga said that in Uganda public participation remains limited and called
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