The stock of Uganda’s outstanding private sector credit increased by 1.5 percent from Shs16.97 trillion in August to Shs17.22 trillion in September, the Performance of the Economy Report for October released by Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development on November 18, 2020 has revealed. The increase is attributed to
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Judiciary staff attending the sensitization workshop By Kenneth Tamale The Judiciary last week held a health awareness sensitisation campaign in commemoration of World AIDS Day 2020 at the Judicial Training Institute in Nakawa. The activity that targeted staff of courts around Kampala was held under the theme “National Solidarity
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Chen Lei, President of Huawei Southern Africa Region Technology is getting us through the pandemic, and technology can also drive our continent’s recovery in the post-pandemic era, writes Chen Lei, President of Huawei Southern Africa. For most of us, 2020 has been a year of almost dramatic, almost traumatic change.
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Sudhir's diplomatic car Dr. Sudhir Ruparelia, the Honorary Consul of the Republic of Nepal to Uganda Monday November, 23, 2020 received the official car– a Lexus 2020 UBH series with a special color of the number plate and official flag of Nepal, to facilitate his diplomatic duties. In March this
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Uganda now has an ISO certified fuel laboratory following Vivo Energy Uganda’s laboratory accreditation by the International Organisation for Standardization (ISO) 17025:2017. Vivo Energy Uganda is the marketer and distributor of Shell branded fuels and products. The ISO/IEC 17025 is the highest accreditation globally in the energy industry. For an
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Donald Trump (pictured above) has accepted a formal US transition should begin for President-elect Joe Biden to take office. The president said the federal agency overseeing the handover must "do what needs to be done", even as he vowed to keep contesting his election defeat. The General Services Administration (GSA)
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Power distributor Umeme is building a switching station in Lyantonde District worth US$1m (Shs3.7bn) to improve supply in the district, Masaka and Mbarara cities. The Managing Director Umeme, Mr. Selestino Babungi says the switching station will be up and running by June 2021. “Once it is in place, it will
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With Uganda embracing online sports betting, several companies have come up to offer the service.MelBet Uganda, one of the new and fastest growing online sports betting companies in the country is taking the market by storm.Through its BET & WIN PROMO, MelBet customers and the general public are given a
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Grade Four Pupils of Parklands Baptist School play during break time on November 19. Learners will have to study under trees, in tents and in dining halls when schools reopen in January if the government does not address the infrastructure challenge within the next one month since nearly all available
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Josephine Mutabuza, Absa Bank Uganda’s Head of Bancassurance Bancassurance is booming and is expected to increase Uganda’s insurance penetrations that remains below 1% as banks increasingly sell insurance products to their customers. Bancassurance is a simple term coined by combining two words, bank and insurance. Commercial Banks are adopting it
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