CMA Boss, Keith Kalyegira It’s been a year dominated by Covid-19, and its effects. Although 2020 has been a year to forget, there have been some stellar moments for the capital markets. The number of Ugandans saving for retirement has significantly increased, the Capital Markets Authority (CMA) industry report for
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Final year students resumed face to face learning in October Millions of children are returning to primary and secondary schools in Kenya amid guidelines meant to prevent the spread of coronavirus. Final year students had resumed in-person learning in October but took a short break over the festive season. The
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A worker walks by containers at the main port in the Kenyan coastal city of Mombasa. [File, Marko Djurica, Reuters] African countries began officially trading under a new continent-wide free trade area on Friday, after months of delays caused by the global coronavirus pandemic. But experts view the New Year’s
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By Denis Jjuuko The politics and COVID-19 infections and deaths may be stealing the limelight at the moment but something else is happening in the country that is leading to heartaches. It is the economy. When you open the newspapers, you see businesses and individuals facing foreclosures. Roko, a famous
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Umeme and Stanbic were the most traded counters on the Uganda Securities Exchange (USE) at the end of November 2020 according to top officials on the bourse. Umeme traded 75 million shares worth sh17b, taking up 64.8% of total turnover, and 22% of total traded volumes. Stanbic bank traded
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Justice Byabakama Mugenyi Simon, Chairperson, Electoral Commission In preparation for the General Elections 2021, the Electoral Commission will issue Voter Location Slips to voters across the country to enable them conveniently locate their respective polling stations on polling day. The Voter Location Slips (VLS) will be issued for a period
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The market requires supply of quality maize in desired quantities at desired time, good quality maize attracts better market price that help farmers earn high income. Many times, farmers experience high losses of their quality maize right from harvesting to marketing. It is estimated that farmers in Uganda lose up
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Investigators may never know how Covid-19 emerged in the country — and how to stop it from happening again. In the year since seafood hawkers started appearing at Wuhan’s hospitals sickened with a strange and debilitating pneumonia, the world has learned a lot about Covid-19, from the way it spreads to how
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When I heard of the unfortunate death of Isaac Ssenyange alias Mando Zebra, Uganda's boxer and former captain of the Bombers, I telephoned his wife who narrated to me the events in detail. Zebra was an NRM supporter, and was mobilising for us so well. He was also training many youth
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A new era has begun for the United Kingdom after it completed its formal separation from the European Union. The UK stopped following EU rules at 23:00 GMT, as replacement arrangements for travel, trade, immigration and security co-operation came into force. Boris Johnson said the UK had "freedom in our
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