Emmanuel Wawire roasting coffee Emmanuel Wawire is a coffee Roaster and Barista at Kuwait based Earth Roastery. The Middle East company is buying Uganda Coffee ( Bros coffee) which won the recent Uganda-UK Arabica coffee cupping competition. Uganda coffee is Earth Roastery’s fastest selling coffee. Wawire was trained by Uganda
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Trucks Waiting to be cleared at Busia border (photo by Mukisa Gabriel The long queue of trucks that had parked at the Malaba border points in Eastern Uganda has now reduced to cover a distance of 40 kilometres from the initial 70-kilometres stretch. The truck pile-up at the Uganda-Kenya border started
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Express FC renewed its contract with Betway in 2020 Several sports are in panic following an impending announcement by Betway sports betting company to quit the Ugandan market. Although the company is yet to announce its exit, a top official confirmed the move, saying they will make the announcement at
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Amos Lugoloobi, the State Minister for Planning Legislators of the Budget Committee have rejected the 2022/2023 national budget framework paper after realizing that the figures officials from Ministry of Finance had presented were inconsistent from those the Ministry had tabled before Parliament in December, when the 2022/2023 National Budget Framework
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David Wandera, Absa Bank Uganda's Executive Director and Head of Markets Absa Bank Uganda Tuesday hosted selected journalists to an in-depth analysis of the financial markets ahead of the unveiling of the 2021 Africa Financial Markets Index (AFMI) report on Tuesday 25th January 2022. The training, led by David Wandera, Absa
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Akon City designed by Bakri & Associates Development Consultants Residents at Mpunge sub-county in Mukono district are protesting the planned allocation of one square mile of land to American artist Aliaune Damala Badara, also known as Akon to establish his second futuristic city in Uganda. Akon, together with his wife
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Factories taking shape at one of the new Industrial Parks Agro-industrialization is set to take the fifth largest share of the national budget for 2022/23 as the government implements the Agro-Industrialization Programme Implementation Action Plan. This is also part of the third National Development Plan (NDPIII), whose theme ‘is increasing
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A photo Montage of some of the CEOs and business personalities to watch in 2022 The last two years have presented serious business, health and personal challenges across the world, worsened by a breakdown in the global supply chains due to COVID-19 related disruptions. It has been a period that
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Members of Parliament on the Finance Committee have questioned officials from the Ministry of Finance, Planning, and Economic Development over the skyrocketing fuel prices across the country. Fuel prices have been rising sharply since early last year but since the beginning of this month, they have risen more sharply by
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More than 300 pigs have died from African Swine Fever in Terego, Arua City, and Arua district. African Swine Fever is a highly contagious and deadly viral disease of pigs and wild boar that usually presents with symptoms of high fever, decreased appetite and weakness, red blotchy skin lesions, diarrhea,
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