William Byaruhanga, Uganda's AG Government will tomorrow Thursday table before Parliament a set of regulations that will guide political parties as they conduct their party primaries ahead of 2021 general elections. The revelation was made by the Attorney General, William Byaruhanga as he interfaced with the Legal and Parliamentary Affairs
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Uganda's Entebbe based State House State House is planning to write off Shs590m that was stolen by UPDF soldiers from State House Cash Stores in 2011/12. The revelation was made by State House Comptroller, Lucy Nakyobe while appearing before Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee today where she led officials from State
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People with type A blood are at a higher risk of contracting Covid-19 and severe illness while those with type O have a lower risk, a new research has shown. A recent genetic analysis found that individuals with blood types A-positive, A-negative and AB-positive and AB-negative were at a higher
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The Ministry of Health has confirmed 19 new COVID-19 cases from 2,170 samples tested on 29 June 2020. All the 19 are Ugandans. “11 of the confirmed cases are returnees from Afghanistan who were under quarantine at the time of test,” the Ministry said in a statement signed off by
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The Speaker of Uganda’s Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga (pictured) has asked the Ministry of Health to explain why no penny has been allocated to Uganda Virus Research Institute (UVRI) despite Parliament allocating money to the institute to fight the spread of COVID-19 in Uganda. Kadaga also tasked the Ministry to explain
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A few women entrepreneurs are benefiting from UWEP The COVID-19 pandemic has left a number of beneficiaries of the Youth Livelihood Programme (YLP) and women under the Uganda Women Entrepreneurship Programme (UWEP) unable to pay back their loans. As a result, Government through the Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social
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The Bank of Uganda (BoU) has taken a decision to appeal the Court of Appeal’s dismissal of the case filed by Crane Bank Limited (in Receivership) vs. Sudhir Ruparelia and Meera Investments Limited to the Supreme Court. “In exercise of its powers under sections 87(3), 88(1)(a)&(b) of the Financial Institutions
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The Uganda National Committee on the Study of Juche Idea in conjunction with the Pan African Movement - Uganda, have organized an online seminar to commemorate the 26th anniversary of the passing of H.E Comrade Kim Il Sung, Eternal Leader of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, also known as
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The new influenza strain was identified in pigs/File photo Researchers in China have discovered a new type of swine flu that is capable of triggering a pandemic, according to a study published Monday in the U.S. science journal PNAS. Named G4, it is genetically descended from the H1N1 strain that caused a pandemic in
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Nairobi is Africa's business hub Kenya’s economy will contract for the first time in almost three decades, according to the International Monetary Fund. The lender now sees gross domestic product shrinking by 0.3% in 2020, compared with an April projection of 1% growth, according to a regional economic outlook
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