The move by Tororo district to deposit US $71,110 (about Shs268m) on the account number of Bank of Uganda Deputy Governor, Dr. Louis Kasekende has irked a section of district leaders. They are wondering the type of business Kasekende transacted with the district and want establish purpose of the said
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Chinese President Xi Jinping has officially opened the world's longest sea crossing bridge, nine years after construction first began, BBC reports. Including its access roads, the bridge spans 55km (34 miles) and connects Hong Kong to Macau and the mainland Chinese city of Zhuhai. The bridge cost about $20bn (£15.3bn)
Read MoreADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, 22 October 2018/African Media Agency/- The Chairperson of the African Union (AU) Commission, Moussa Faki Mahamat, will undertake a visit to West Africa that will take him to Benin, from 22 to 23 October; the Republic of Guinea, from 23 to 24; and Nigeria, on 25 and
Read MoreHARARE, Zimbabué, 22 outubro de 2018 -/African Media Agency (AMA)/- O Presidente e CEO da Mastercard, Ajay Banga, visitou esta semana o Zimbabué para mostrar o forte apoio que a Mastercard dá aos esforços do país para criar uma nova vaga de pagamentos digitais e crescimento inclusivo. Ajay Banga frisou de
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African legislators have converged in Kigali, Rwanda to discuss among others contemporary issues affecting the continent such as natural resources management and corruption, labour migration and the need to develop model laws. The First Ordinary Session of the Fifth Pan African Parliament sitting, which is premised on the African Union
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President Yoweri Museveni launched a new Presidential Fast-Tracking Initiative on the Elimination of HIV/AIDS that targets total elimination of the scourge from the Uganda by 2030. He used the occasion to remind Ugandans in general and those devoted to the fight against the scourge that the struggle to eliminate HIV/AIDS
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Kyadondo East MP, Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine has warned his followers against boycotting Uganda Cranes games. This is after Federation of Uganda Football Association (FUFA) wrote to Mandela National Stadium protesting the venue for Bobi’s Kyarenga concert ahead of Cranes Afcon 2019 qualifier encounter with Cape Verde. Using his
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The Mityana Municipality Member of Parliament, Francis Butebi Zaake says he can clearly remember and identify security operatives who attacked and tortured him during campaigns on August 13th ahead of the Arua Municipality by election. Zaake shares that besides the faces, he can also vividly remember some of the name
Read MoreCorporate Council on Africa (CCA), the leading U.S. business association focused solely on connecting business interests in Africa, will host its 8th U.S.-Africa Infrastructure Conference November 5-6, 2018 in Johannesburg, South Africa. CCA is expecting over 300 U.S. and African participants, including innovative businesses and service providers, financiers, investors, private
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General David Sejusa, the Former Coordinator of Military Intelligence has mocked President Yoweri Museveni, saying that if the recently commissioned CCTV Command Centre is effective, let them show faces of men who were captured on video manhandling and later kidnapping a man last week. A video recording last week went
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