Minister Amongi receives her award from Prof. Syed Abidi of Makerere University The Minister for Gender, Labour and Social Development, Hon. Amongi Betty Ongom, has today been honored with a Peace Award in recognition of her exemplary tolerant and reconciliatory approach to performing national duties. Amongi, who is also the
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Hundreds of Ugandans leave the country daily for jobs abroad The Saudi embassy in Uganda has denied Ugandan MPs on Parliament’s Committee of Gender, Labour and Social Development visas to the middle East country. The lawmakers wanted to go to Saudi Arabia and investigate allegations into the poor working conditions
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Speaker of Parliament Anita Among The Speaker of Parliament, Anita Among has given the government two weeks to present before the House a Bill seeking to give commercial banks power to regulate Islamic banking. This was during the plenary sitting on Wednesday in which Members of Parliament queried the delayed
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Mark Zuckerberg Africa’s youth prefer using local innovations and believe that the next tech billionaire could come from the continent, according to the recently launched Africa – innovator or imitator? Exploring narratives around Africa’s technological capabilities report by Africa No Filter. The research was done in Egypt, Morocco, Ghana, Ivory
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Gaston Kironde, the Senior Surveillance Officer at UNBS The Uganda National Bureau of Standards (UNBS) is calling upon all traders of Rice, Maize and Sorghum to adhere to the Uganda Standards during the production processes, to improve the quality of the final products. During UNBS sensitization of Rice, Maize and
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Mapera House, the headquarters of Centenary Bank By Denis Jjuuko In the early 1983, the Catholic Church in Uganda set up a scheme that targeted the majority of Ugandans — folks in rural areas, the majority of which were unbanked. Ten years later, the scheme turned into a commercial bank
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Rwanda’s Salima Mukansanga Salima Mukansanga from Rwanda is one of the six women who will for the first time officiate at the World Cup in Qatar. She is set to become the first female referee to preside over a world cup match. The others are Stéphanie Frappart of France and Yoshimi Yamashita
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Signing the historic agreement are Godfrey Kuruhiira Akiiki, CAO of Buikwe District, center, and Gadi Yerushalmi, COO, CTI Africa, left, with Dr. Richard Bbosa, Buikwe District Health Officer, right. CTI Africa Ltd., a leader in information technology, has signed a far-reaching healthcare agreement with the government of Uganda’s Buikwe District.
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Dr. Charles Ayume, Chairperson Parliament’s Health Committee A new report on the magnitude of road traffic injuries reporting to public hospitals in Uganda shows government is spending billions annually on treating road crash victims. Presented before Parliament by Dr. Charles Ayume, Chairperson Parliament’s Health Committee, during the plenary sitting,
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Travel experts say that Uganda’s passport has attained the highest form of security that is recognizable in any country. The new Electronic Machine-Readable Travel document, the e-Passport was designed with enhanced security features, including fingerprint, facial, and iris recognition. But what makes it even more secure is not just those
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