Bold Cashers Limited, a Ugandan technology company, has set its eyes on making Africa’s economies cashless with Cash Chat, a digital and social network mobile application. The mobile apple now enables users to transfer money across the globe. It also enables users to make money through targeted advertising on top
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The Uganda shilling started off to a flat start amid thin demand and as markets opened for the year. Remittances flow remained the main source of supply. Trading was in the range of 3660/3670 in the week ending January 3rd 2020. In the fixed income market, a Treasury bill auction
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By Alex Masereka In April 2001, the African Union countries met and pledged to set a target of allocating at least 15% of their annual budget to improve the health sector. Uganda’s health challenges include; under funding, under staffing, poor waste management, lack of commitment and underutilization of resources. Despite
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President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has explained the importance of the Galamba-Bireembo Trek and what exactly happened along this route as the Liberation War was fought. BELOW IS HIS FULL ARTICLE An armed conflict has got four levels: a war; a campaign; an operation; and a battle. All these levels can either be short,
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Three Americans - one U.S. military servicemember and two contractors - were killed by Somalia’s al Shabaab militant group during an attack on Sunday on a military base in Kenya used by both U.S. and Kenyan forces, the U.S. military said. The military’s Africa Command confirmed the deaths and said
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Kyadondo East lawmaker Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine has been arrested while trying to launch his consultation meetings. The MP also known as Bobi Wine was arrested on Monday morning in Kasangati in the capital Kampala. Kasangati forms part of his constituency. Last year, Bobi revealed that he will be
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Mitch Kahn remembers how, when fighting began in the second war in Iraq, prices for US crude oil spiked $10 per barrel overnight. That would have meant a profit of $50,000 if a trader had made the smallest purchasing trade possible. Or, just as big a loss if the trader
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The inaugural Social Media FestUg, an annual event organized by Spotlight Publications Ltd, the publishers of Business Focus is scheduled to take place on 25th January 2020 at Silver Springs Hotel Gardens, Bugolobi. Running under the theme; Redirecting Social Media To Impactful Social Networking Engagements, the festival will bring real
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President Trump has warned the US is "targeting" 52 Iranian sites and will strike "very fast and very hard" if Tehran attacks Americans or US assets. His comments followed the US assassination of Qasem Soleimani, a top Iranian general, in a drone strike. Iran has vowed to avenge his killing.
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Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has begun a six-day march through the jungle, walking 195 km (121 miles). He is retracing the route he and his forces took in 1986, when they seized power from Idi Amin and Milton Obote. Critics have dismissed the march as a stunt ahead of Uganda's
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