Kenya Airways (KQ) has announced that it anticipates 25 per cent or more lower earnings for the period ending December 31, 2019 when compared to 2018, pointing to wider losses this year despite several cost cutting measures by the carrier. In a notice signed by Kenya Airways Board Chair Michael
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President Yoweri Museveni has said that he values the East African Community and the integration process. Speaking after watching a ladies volleyball match between national parliaments of Uganda and Tanzania at the ongoing EAC inter-parliamentary games in Lugogo, Museveni said that the Community is critical for the survival of the
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The third edition of the Mastercard Index of Women Entrepreneurs (MIWE) has listed three African countries as global leaders in terms of women-owned businesses. Uganda, Ghana and Botswana are ranked as the top three countries with the highest percentages of women-owned businesses across the 58 markets evaluated around the world.
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Mityana Municipality MP, Francis Zaake has denied accusations that he threatened to beat up Makerere University Vice Chancellor, Prof. Barnabas Nawangwe within Parliament premises. He instead says it’s his life that was threatened for fighting for the rights of students. “As far as I remember I behaved in a very
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Imagine living in prison for 19 years and declining a rare opportunity for freedom. That was the case recently when a man surprisingly refused to match to freedom after Tanzania President John Magufuli pardoned him. The Tanzanian, Merad Abraham (pictured), instead chose to harm himself. President Magufuli set free 5,533
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The Danish Ambassador to Uganda, Nicolaj Hejberg Pedersen and Uganda’s Minister of Finance, Matia Kasaija Tuesday signed a grant agreement worth Shs19 billion that will contribute to the Government of Uganda’s efforts in ensuring more effective, efficient and accountable use of resources. For close to three decades, Denmark has partnered
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President Yoweri Museveni has ordered the new Minister of ICT and National Guidance, Judith Nabakooba to ensure that government buys locally developed Information Communication Technology (ICT) solutions as a way of promoting Buy Uganda, Build Uganda (BUBU) policy. The President made the directive Tuesday while officially launching the inaugural National
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The army of the Democratic Republic of Congo has captured 291 Rwandan rebels and handed them over to the Rwandan army, a Congolese spokesman has said. They were captured in the Kalehe region in South Kivu province, which borders Rwanda in the east of DR Congo, army spokesman Maj Jean
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On December 16, 2019, the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) approved a disbursement to the Democratic Republic of Congo under the Rapid Credit Facility (RCF) in the amount equivalent to SDR266.5 million (about US$368.4 million, 25 percent of quota) to enable the authorities to meet their urgent
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The AFP news agency is now reporting that South Sudan's President Salva Kiir and his rival Riek Machar have agreed to form a unity government, backing up an earlier report from Reuters. "We... have said that after the 100 days we have to form the government", AFP quotes President Kiir
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