Technology entrepreneur Charlette N’Guessan has won this year's Royal Academy of Engineering Africa prize for engineering innovation. The Ivorian 26-year-old, who is based in Ghana, is the first woman to win the prestigious prize. Her team's invention, Bace API, uses facial recognition and artificial intelligence to verify identities remotely, the
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Eternal President H.E. KIM IL SUNG H.E. KIM JONG IL H.E. KIM JONG UN Invincibility of Korean-Style Socialism Even though the subjective and objective obstacles and difficulties appeared in the course of the great and dynamic advance of the DPRK in recent years the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea has
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With the limited traffic at the Airport, the very last thing on anyone’s mind would be the transportation of contraband narcotics due to the ease with which the authorities can smoke one out. It is equally peculiar for a recipe book, a piece of synthetic hair or a gift pack
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BoU Governor Prof. Emmanuel Tumusiime-Mutebile The Bank of Uganda (BoU) has approved the establishment of a Standing Lending Facility/Window at the BoU for banks with short-term liquidity needs, in a bid to support monetary policy operations and keep interbank interest rates within the CBR (Central Bank Rate) band. In a
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Dr William Wasswa’s low-cost digital microscope speeds up cervical cancer screening Two Ugandan innovators, Dr William Wasswa and David Tusubira have won $13,000 (UShs47.9m) each in this year's Royal Academy of Engineering Africa prize for engineering innovation The top prize was won by Technology entrepreneur Charlette N’Guessan. The Ivorian 26-year-old,
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German Shepherds are often used as sniffer dogs The University of Namibia’s School of Veterinary Medicine is training dogs to detect coronavirus. The plan is to deploy the dogs at airports and borders, the Namibian newspaper quotes Conrad Brain, a physiology and epidemiology lecturer as saying. Dogs have been proven
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EU Ambassador to Uganda, His Excellency, Attilio Pacifici shares partnership documents with Bemanya Twebaze, Registrar General of the Uganda Registration Services Bureau. Uganda has once again scored a first on the African continent. Uganda Registration Services Bureau (URSB) officially joined the TMclass and Design Class on 03rd August 2020, after
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Insurers are probably the most misunderstood group of people. Despite all the benefits accrued from insurance, nobody seems to understand what it is about and insurers are often seen through a negative prism. Most people think it’s another corporate money-making scheme to diddle them out of their hard-earned cash which
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Tourism Minister, Godfrey Ssuubi Kiwanda Uganda could miss out on as much as $2 billion (UShs7.3 trillion) in tourism revenue this year due to travel restrictions implemented after the coronavirus outbreak, according to Tourism Minister Godfrey Ssuubi Kiwanda. The East African nation, a popular gorilla-trekking and safari destination, recorded 1.3
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A stronger dollar and domestic economic dynamics weighed on the currency mid week during the week ending September04, 2020. The shilling gave back some gains of the previous session to trade at 3685/95 compared to 3670/3680 at opening of the week. The fixed income segment continued to lure investors hungry
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