A male vendor who was shot and injured in Kalerwe Market this morning as police dispersed market night guards who were demanding salary payments has succumbed to the bullet injuries. Kampala Metropolitan Deputy Police spokesperson Luke Owoyesigyire has identified the deceased as George Ssejemba alias M16, who was shot today
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The Ministry of Energy, Mineral and Development has evicted over 200 quarry workers in Karuma Town Council at the Hydro Electric Power station. The ongoing work on the 600 megawatts Karuma Dam Hydropower is a 1.7 billion dollars project financed by the Export-Import Bank of China. The construction which kicked
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A nurse in Butaleja in has died in a traditional shrine while seeking for medical care. Silvia Hasahya, a nurse attached to Busolwe hospital in Butaleja district and has been a resident of Bugangu village in Busabi sub county, died on Sunday at a shrine where she had been admitted
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The UN children's agency-UNICEF has signed an agreement with Janssen Pharmaceutica NV to supply up to 220 million doses of the Johnson & Johnson single-dose vaccine for all 55 Member States of the African Union (AU). Some 35 million doses are to be delivered by the end of this year while the rest are
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282 million Africans suffered from terrible hunger in 2020/Courtesy photo There was a dramatic worsening of world hunger in 2020, the United Nations said today - much of it likely related to the fallout of COVID-19. While the pandemic's impact has yet to be fully mapped, a multi-agency report estimates that around
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Suspected Congolese Militiamen have shot three Ugandan fishermen on Lake Albert. The incident happened near Senjojo landing site in Buhuka parish Kyangwali Sub County in Kikuube district around 5 am on Monday morning. The injured fishermen are Robert Amukuhikiriza, Deo Busobozi and Seremos Byaruhanga, all attached to Nsunzu B
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Michael Opira, the Chief Operations Officer at Housing Finance Bank Over the last ten years, there has been a steady shift in banking and financial services from the conventional channels to a more digitized service offering. This shift has been accelerated further by the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, which
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A Kenyan passport | NMG photo Holders of Kenya’s passport cannot access 54 countries in the wake of Covid-19 ban in the global race to protect nations against new variants of coronavirus. The Henley Passport Index, which has been regularly monitoring the world's most travel-friendly passports since 2006, made the revelations that
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Students taking computer lessons. These and many more will find The Lesson materials more interesting/Courtesy photo A section of innovators in the Information Communication Technology (ICT) industry, have shone a ray of hope for parents who are desperately seeking academic excellence for their children in the current COVID-19 lockdown. Shule
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BY EMMA ONYANGO For over three decades, Avako Evasi and her family depended primarily on tobacco as their cash crop. The mother of two admits that despite the yields she got, the crop was a very difficult one to cultivate, and even the money realized from its sales was barely enough
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