DHL Express, DHL Global Forwarding and DHL Supply Chain, part of the Deutsche Post DHL Group (DPDHL Group),launched a partnership today with Teach For Uganda, a network partner of Teach For All, to eradicate education inequity, raise a nation of true leaders and promote educational opportunities and employability for young
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Equity Bank Uganda is leveraging on technology not only to grow, but also bring more Ugandans into the banking fold. According to Samuel Kirubi, the Managing Director, Equity Bank Uganda, they are increasingly digitizing their products and services to meet customers’ needs. He gave an example of agency banking where
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The police have announced that they have arrested the key suspect in the murder of a boda boda cyclist. According to a statement issued by Patrick Onyango, the Kampala Metropolitan Police (KMP) spokesperson, John Bosco Mugisha aka Mukiga was arrested on Tuesday in Nsiike I, Ndeeba Rubaga Division in the
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Countries in African Great Lakes region on Tuesday pledged to boost transparency in the electoral process in order to foster peace, stability, inclusivity and sustainable development. Senior policymakers and experts from the Great Lakes region said at a forum in Nairobi that improved management of elections is key to preventing
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Uganda's Minister of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries(MAAIF), Hon. Vincent Bamulangaki Ssempijja on Wednesday met with the Katikkiro of Buganda, Owek. Charles Peter Mayiga to have an agreed position on the Coffee Bill 2018. Their meeting comes days after Mayiga criticized a proposal for the registration and licensing of coffee
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Seventeen people who worked for the gambling industry in Kenya are being deported by the authorities. The government is clamping down on online sports betting which it says is a curse on the country's youth. Gambling has become a multi-million dollar industry in Kenya, where mobile phone technology has made
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A fishmonger vomited at Mpondwe market in Uganda on July 11 before dying of Ebola in Democratic Republic of Congo, an incident that could spread the disease in Uganda, the World Health Organization reported on Wednesday. WHO said in a report that about 590 fishmongers at the market could be
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MPs on the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) on Tuesday quizzed officials from Uganda Police Force on the whereabouts of the Shs1.28bn collected as exhibits in Non Tax Revenue (NTR). The Police team had appeared before PAC to respond to queries raised by the Auditor General in the 2017/2019 audit report.
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The Speaker of Parliament, Rebecca Kadga, has urged government to increase efforts in promoting cultural tourism as a way of marketing Uganda to the Diaspora. Kadaga said this during her visit to the Republic of Morocco on the invitation of the Speaker of the House of Representatives of Morocco, Habib
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Sub-Saharan Africa will remain the world’s fastest-growing mobile region over the coming years as millions of young African consumers become mobile users for the first time, according to a new GSMA study. It reveals that more than 160 million new unique mobile subscribers will be added across the region by 2025,
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