Sudan’s public prosecutor on Thursday ordered ousted President Omar al-Bashir to be interrogated on charges of money laundering and financing terrorism, as hundreds of thousands of protesters joined a sit-in to demand the army give way to civilian rule. Bashir was removed by the military on April 11 after months
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Leading Pan-African Bank, United Bank for Africa (UBA) PLC in partnership with leading global payments and technology company, MasterCard, have announced they are giving away all-expenses paid trips to the Semi-Finals and Finals of the 2019 UEFA Champions League to 12 lucky UBA Mastercard holders and their plus ones. Open to all
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Agribusiness has been touted as a sector that will produce the next generation of billionaires across the world given the increasing global population amidst fixed land and climate change menace. In Uganda, a number of people are increasingly taking on commercial farming. However, some have jumped on this lucrative business
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Government has refused to succumb to the growing pressure calling its agency, Uganda Communications Commission (UCC) to rescind its directive to 13 media houses to suspend their staff for reportedly breaching minimum broadcasting standards. In a statement issued this afternoon during the plenary sitting by Chris Baryomunsi, State Minister for
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Government has revealed that recent joint operations carried out by Ministry of Health, National Drug Authority, Uganda Police and Health Monitoring Unit have resulted into the impounding of 981 boxes of assorted medical items valued at Shs490.5m of which 165 boxes had medicines intended for public health facilities. The revelation
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Kenya’s betting control board has dealt a blow to the flourishing gambling business with a raft of new measures it says are meant to protect the public from addiction, Daily Nation reports. In a directive issued on April 30, the board banned many forms of advertising that have been helping
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Liberia's President and former international football star George Weah, has resumed working from his official office, exactly two weeks after he abandoned it because two snakes were found in the building where it is located, BBC reports. The building had to be thoroughly fumigated before the president was advised to
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Ugandan musician-turned-MP Bobi Wine has testified at his bail hearing via video link from the prison where he is currently being held, after being charged with "disobedience of statutory duty". He had been arrested on Monday for organising a protest against a tax on the use of social media. Bobi
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Tanzanian self-made media magnate and philanthropist Reginald Mengi has died in Dubai at the age of 75. Mr Mengi, through his manufacturing, mining and media conglomerate IPP Group, owned newspapers and radio and TV stations. In 2014, Forbes estimated his wealth at $560m (£430m). He was born into a poor
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This is an open counsel to Pastor Bujingo, wife Teddy and other Christians. Know you all that marriage is both a gold mine and a land mine at the same time. It (marriage) is meant to fulfill Godly arithmetic of one plus oneequalsone and I am sure the Bujingos have
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