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FDC Trashes DP’s Single Opposition Candidate Strategy To Defeat Museveni

The Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) party has dismissed, as wishful thinking, a one-to-one strategy broached by Democratic Party (DP) ahead of the 2021 presidential elections. The strategy that would see all opposition parties' field a single candidate against National Resistance Movement (NRM) candidates across the country was presented by

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We Are In A Race With Time To Unlock Africa’s Full Potential – AfDB Boss

2019 Sunhak Peace Prize Laureate Akinwumi  Adesina has pledged to do more to advance Africa’s fight against hunger, poverty and youth underemployment. The President of the African Development Bank (AfDB), and co-Laureate Waris Dirie, a global champion against Female Genital Mutilation, shared the prestigious US $1million dollar prize at an

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Kadaga Wants Executive To Respect Parliament’s Independence

Speaker of Uganda’s Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga has stressed the need for the Executive to respect the independence of Parliament, saying it is an inevitable balance required in strengthening democratic governance. Kadaga said issues relating to the independence of Parliament; its responsiveness in addressing service delivery needs of citizens should top

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Raxio Signs Hamilton Cloud Services As First Customer, Announces 25% Discount

By Our Reporter Hamilton Cloud Services (HCS), Uganda’s first local cloud service provider and a subsidiary of Hamilton Telecom, on Thursday, February 7th 2019, finalised an agreement to colocate their  servers in Raxio Data Centre’s state-of-the-art, always-on data centre at the Kampala Industrial and Business Park, Namanve. Raxio announced its

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Uganda Fails Test To Host UN Global Base As Kenya Wins Lucrative Bid

Kenya has beaten 14 African countries including Uganda to host the lucrative United Nationals Global Shared Service Centre. This is according to the Report of the UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres titled ‘Global service delivery model for the United Nations Secretariat’ dated 8 January 2019. The report will soon be

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Kenya’s Deputy President Backs Africa’s Borrowing Spree From West, China

Deputy President William Ruto has called on African countries to continue accepting financial help from the West or China as long as it boosts infrastructure on the continent but doesn’t lead to re-colonisation, Daily Nation reports. In a lecture delivered at the UK’s Warwick University on Saturday, Dr Ruto said

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