The holder of the office of Lord Mayor, Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA), may soon shake off the ceremonial label as more powers are being accorded to the office in the Kampala Capital City Authority (Amendment Bill), 2015. The Bill, now being considered by the Committee of the Whole House,
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The border between the city of Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo and the Rwandan city of Gisenyi has been closed to stop the spread of Ebola, witnesses have told the BBC. It comes a day after a second person died of the virus in Goma, which is home
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The Central Banks in the East African Community shall be exploring ways of transforming the East African Payment System (EAPS) and linking it with other payment solutions on the African continent to enable the seamless transfer of monetary value across the continent at both retail and wholesale levels, Dr. Louis
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City lawyers have chipped in on the ongoing discussion of the National Coffee bill 2018, saying it hampers the socio-economic rights of Ugandans once enacted in its current form, URN reports. The National Coffee bill 2018 seeks among others things to provide for the registration of commercial coffee farmers and
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Merck, a leading science and technology company, is collaborating with the BioRescue Project to save the Northern White Rhinoceros (Rhino) by making its state-of-the-art fertility technologies and extensive knowledge on the subject available. Only two females of this species remain - a captive-born mother and daughter named Najin (40) and
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The son of al-Qaeda founder Osama Bin Laden, Hamza (in featured photo), has died, according to US intelligence officials. Details of Hamza Bin Laden's place or date of death remain unclear in the anonymously-sourced reports. In February, the US government offered $1m for information leading to his whereabouts. Hamza Bin
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