Cipla’s chairman Dr. Yusuf Hamied Kampala and Uganda are honouring Cipla’s chairman Dr. Yusuf Hamied by renaming the road in which the CiplaQCIL facility is based after him specifically for his ground-breaking humanitarian approach in providing access to quality, affordable healthcare. Considered a visionary for over 60 years in the
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Wedding planners having quality time As one way of maintaining its top niche in the hotel business, Speke Group of hotels Wednesday hosted Kampala’s top brass wedding planners for a cocktail at Forest Cottages Bukoto. According to the managing Director, Speke group of hotels, Sheena Ruparelia, the event will be
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Businessman Abid Alam and D/SP Wanyama Wilber Osteen attached to Wamala Regional Police Headquarters have asked Buganda road court to dismiss the case in which the duo are alleged to have conspired to defeat the course of justice, by unlawfully sharing information in a case file where Alam was the
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By Pedro Guerreiro, Managing Director for Central Africa at SAP The 21st century is widely touted as the 'African Century', a period promising unprecedented economic and technological growth for the continent. Africa's future looks bright.The continent features five of the ten fastest-growing economies in the world. Its population is the
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East Africa heads of state should re-open borders to facilitate cross border trade between regional citizens, trade advocates have said. The Civil society bodies including The Eastern African Sub-Regional Support Initiative for the Advancement of Women (EASSI) in partnership with SEATIN, Urgent Action fund Africa among others note that
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Emmanuel Mwaka, the Chief Executive Officer of ICEA Life Assurance Company Limited (Left) & Nicholas Lutakome, Acting Chief Executive Officer of Sanlam Life Insurance Uganda Limited (Right) Although the insurance sector in Uganda continues to register impressive growth, it is widely agreed that a lot still needs to be done
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The NRM National Chairman who is also the President of the Republic of Uganda, H.E Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has today launched the motorcycle scheme at the party headquarters in Kampala. The motorcycles are to be distributed to Sub-county chairpersons to ease their work of Mobilization in the various villages throughout
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With three of the eight candidates to become the next leader of the World Trade Organization (WTO) coming from Africa, BBC Africa business editor Zawadi Mudibo looks at what difference having one of them at the helm would make for the continent. There is a growing feeling among African diplomats
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The relationship shared by the peoples, governments and parties of Cuba and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) has lasted six decades, almost the Revolution’s entire life. The first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba Central Committee, Army General Raúl Castro Ruz, and President of the Republic Miguel
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Amazon Chief Executive Jeff Bezos (pictured) topped Forbes’ list of richest Americans for the third year in a row, while U.S. President Donald Trump’s ranking dropped as the coronavirus pandemic slammed his office buildings, hotels and resorts, the magazine said Tuesday. The aggregate wealth of the Forbes 400 list rose
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