Uganda Coffee Development Authority (UCDA) has launched a campaign to stump old coffee trees and rehabilitate abandoned coffee gardens across the country to help increase productivity. Under the campaign, UCDA will train farmers on good agricultural practices (GAPS) such as stumping overgrown coffee trees to increase their yield. The Authority
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Bobi Wine being arrested/ AFP Photo Ugandan opposition leader Bobi Wine on Tuesday vowed to press on with campaigns ahead of next week’s presidential elections despite intimidation by the police. Bobi Wine, whose real name is Robert Kyagulanyi, is the main challenger of President Yoweri Museveni in the January 14
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dfcu Bank has appointed Veronica Sentongo (pictured) as the Bank’s Chief Change & Innovation Officer who will support the implementation of its growth and transformation strategy with specific focus on driving the digital agenda. Prior to joining dfcu Bank, she served as Group Head of Digital Innovation at ICEA LION in Nairobi, where she
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Surge in infections linked to upcountry travel during the festive season Rwanda has banned public and private transport between districts and the capital, Kigali, after the rate of coronavirus infections reached alarming levels, health officials have said. Domestic and international tourists can still travel across the country, but must carry
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BoU Governor Prof. Emmanuel Tumusiime-Mutebile Risks to the economic outlook in the near term have brightened with the progress on the Covid-19 vaccines, signs of recovery in private demand and the additional boost to growth expected from fiscal policy, according to the Bank of Uganda Monetary Policy Report December 2020 “The
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Finance Minister Matia Kasaija has severally appeared before Parliament to seek approval for borrowing Uganda’s total public debt increased by 21.7 percent in FY2019/20, the Bank of Uganda (BoU) Monetary Policy Report for December 2020 has revealed. According to the report, external debt increased from US$ 8.35 to US$ 10.45 billion,
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Jack Ma has been replaced as a judge on Africa's Business Heroes One of China's richest men has gone missing from the talent show he created. Jack Ma, who is reportedly worth just shy of $50billion (£36billion), has been replaced as a judge in the final of Africa’s Business Heroes.
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Uganda consolidated its position as the biggest roaming market for Kenyan mobile operators in the three months to September, new data by the regulator shows, buoyed by travel restrictions between the two key trading partners. Statistics by the Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) shows that voice calls from Uganda totalled
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Eng.Silver Mugisha, the NWSC Managing Director National Water and Sewerage Corporation (NWSC) has promised to end the perennial water shortages in Kampala, Wakiso and Mukono by March 2021, blaming the water crisis on the COVID-19 pandemic that hampered the contractor from completing the Katosi Water Treatment Plant in Mukono on
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The Capital Markets Authority (CMA) has cautioned the public that the so called “gifting club” operating via social media is actually a pyramid scheme that is doomed to collapse and offer nothing in return to several participants. The prospective investors have been promised gifts worth sh2,000,000 which is 10 times their
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