Amb-designate of Uganda to the DRC, James Mbahimba presented his credentials to President Jospeh Kabila of the Democratic Republic of the Congo on Saturday September 2nd 2017 at State House, Kinshasa. Amb. Mbahimba was accompanied by his spouse Mrs. Catherinne Mbahimba and the Mission's Minister Counselor Brig. Gen. Julius Chihandae.
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Equity Bank Uganda will be hosting a dinner forum on Friday the 15th of September 2017 at Grange Tower Bridge Hotel 45 Prescot St, London E1 8GP, UK from 6:00 pm. During the dinner, the bank's Managing Director, Samuel Kirubi will be speaking on Investment Opportunities in Uganda and other East African countries. According
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Livara cosmetics founder and owner, Maxima Nsimenta is among the few young female entrepreneurs nominated for this year's Young Achievers Awards. She was nominated in the Young Achievers Award for Business category. [caption id="attachment_3238" align="alignnone" width="1140"] The organisers of the awards[/caption] Livara Cosmetics manufactures natural and organic cosmetics made from shea
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MTN Group, Africa's biggest mobile phone operator, on Thursday returned to profit in the first half of the year, helping the company to move on from a turbulent 2016 that highlighted the risks of its emerging markets strategy. The results were bolstered by the absence of charges related to a
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Witnesses and military officials in South Sudan said at least six people were killed in an attack Wednesday on a bus convoy traveling between Juba, the capital, and Nimule, on the country’s southern border with Uganda. Four civilians and two national security service members escorting the convoy were killed, a
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The storm over former surgeon-general Vejay Ramlakan's book, "Mandela's Last Years," which documents the final days of Nelson Mandela, for whom Ramlakan cared until the end, will inspire a necessary debate about the ownership of our famous statesman's legacy. Recent days have seen Mandela's widow, Graça Machel, threatening to sue
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FR. GAETANO WRITES TO MUSEVENI ON AGE LIMIT Mr President, you still have a chance to salvage your image. Mr President, I want to believe that you still remember in 1996, I was on your team that was soliciting for votes in Kigezi region. On that team, which was chaired
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Uganda's President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni on Wednesday launched the Uganda Giants` Conservation and Tourism Investment Forum. Uganda will be hosting the Uganda ‘Giants Club Conservation and Tourism Investment Forum’ on Friday 6th October 2017. The Forum is aimed at launching a new initiative to attract tourism into Uganda, make it
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Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni has singled out the practising of subsistence agriculture by the majority of the Ugandan population as a major factor that has made it difficult for the country to reap enough from its cherished agricultural potential. The President was on Tuesday opening the 25th Annual Source of the
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China's economy grew at an annual rate of 6.9% between April and June according to official figures, slightly higher than forecast. The growth rate, which compares expansion with the same three months in the previous year, was the same as in the first quarter of 2017. Beijing is trying to
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