Members of Parliament on the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) have expressed concerns about the fraud in the Uganda Cancer Institute (UCI), describing the practice as another form of cancer eating up patients visiting the facility. The MPs raised the concerns today while meeting officials from UCI that had been summoned
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Pope Francis has sent message to Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni assuring him (Museveni) and Ugandans of his prayers for peace and harmony. “As I overfly Uganda, on my way to Mozambique, Madagascar and Mauritius, I send greetings to your Excellency and your fellow citizens the assurance of my prayers for
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The hashtag #ShameOnTheChurches is trending in Kenya after a Sunday service at a Catholic Church descended into chaos when two MPs started fighting. They had both addressed the congregation in the town of Kiharu, in Central Murang’a County when the argument broke out. People on Twitter have been sharing footage
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Food security is a critical concern as the global population expands and natural resources dwindle. Smart solutions for more efficient farming, hardier crops, alternative sources of nutrition, and safer food packaging and storage are essential. No other single country – certainly not one as young and as tiny as Israel
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Equity Group Holdings is set to acquire a controlling equity stake in Commercial Bank of Congo (BCDC) with the aim of merging the business with its existing subsidiary in DRC, Business Daily reports. The proposed deal will give new impetus to Equity's Pan-Africa expansion strategy coming just after similar transactions
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The second edition of the Economic Mkutano for which the focus is the role of Science, Technology and innovation in Economic Development is scheduled forThursday 12, September 2019 at Sheraton Kampala Hotel. Reprising the spirit borne out of the inaugural 2018 edition, the Mkutano serves to facilitate open debate in
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Makerere University through the Academic Registrar has invited applications from Ugandan, East African, S. Sudan and International applicants for the Bachelor of Chinese and Asian Studies under the private sponsorship scheme for the 2019/2020 academic year. Alfred Masikye Namoah, the Academic Registrar says the duration of the programme is 3
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Barclays Bank of Uganda Limited is preparing to change to Absa Bank Uganda Limited. “As part of our preparation, we are taking a sequenced approach to our change plans. Some branches will start to reflect several elements of the new brand before others,” the bank said in a statement. It
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Sudan's first cabinet since the overthrow of President Omar al-Bashir in April has been sworn in. The 18 members of the cabinet, which include four women and the country's first female Foreign Minister, Asmaa Abdallah, took their oaths of office at the presidential palace in the capital, Khartoum, on Sunday.
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The world could be free of malaria - one of the oldest and deadliest diseases to affect humanity - within a generation, a major report says. Each year there are still more than 200 million cases of the disease, which mostly kills young children. The report says eradicating malaria is
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