The minister of state for microfinance, Haruna Kasolo Kyeyune has encouraged boda boda cyclists to take on the culture of saving if they are to create wealth. Kasolo made the remarks on Thursday during a meeting with the cyclists from around Kampala division at the Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA)
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Terror groups are expanding operations and scaling up attacks in Africa, straining governments ill-prepared to battle extremism as the coronavirus pandemic drains much-needed resources, Verisk Maplecroft said. Rising violence has made sub-Saharan Africa home to seven of the 10 riskiest countries in the world, according to the risk consultancy’s quarterly
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The Board of East African Breweries Limited (“EABL”) has today announced that Mrs. Jane Karuku (pictured) will be taking over as the new Group Managing Director for EABL. Mrs. Karuku, who has been a member of the EABL Board and the current Managing Director for KBL, will replace Mr. Andrew
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Lawmakers in the Democratic Republic of Congo have voted to remove the parliament's speaker. The result is a victory for President Félix Tshisekedi, who's been involved in a power struggle with supporters of his predecessor, Joseph Kabila. Earlier this week police had to intervene to break up fights between rival
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The outgoing US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo has warned Uganda that Uncle Sam is watching the electoral process in the run up to next year's general elections. Pompeo's remarks are contained in a tweet on Thursday in which he also said, "We expect our partners to live up to
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President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni will host the National Thanksgiving Prayers on Friday, at #Entebbe State House, starting 2pm. Friday's service will be held under the theme; Blessed are the peacemakers, they shall be called sons of God, taken from the Biblical scripture of Mathew chapter 5 and verse 9. The
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Dr. Kidega plans to expand his coffee farm to 30 acres Northern Uganda has become a new frontier for coffee growing in Uganda. A few years ago, Uganda Coffee Development Authority (UCDA) introduced commercial coffee production in the non-traditional commercial coffee areas including the Mid-Northern Uganda districts of Apac, Gulu,
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The Innovation Village through Upskill in partnership with Facebook has today launched the Boost with Facebook webinar series. The Webinar that will go on for three days under the theme ‘Leveraging digital platforms for Covid-19 SME recovery’ seeks to share skills and knowledge to help small businesses build resilience to
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Electoral Commission Chairperson, Justice Simon Mugenyi Byabakama, the country appreciates receipt of the initial badge of our electoral materials in a record time. However “cgs”, “ndc”, “psc”, initialled generals world over must be familiar with operational art, mission command, organization of command, mission analysis and exercise of command yet some
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The sleeper tents procured could not be used because of poor quality (courtesy photo) The Government of Uganda through Ministry of Health procured 20 sleeper tents worth Shs3.8bn from M/s Lumious Uganda Limited but they were of poor quality. This revelation is contained in the COVID-19 Interventions Report for Financial
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