Coffee farmers in Luweero district have opposed the National Coffee bill 2018, saying it is intended to eliminate them from growing coffee. The bill, which is before parliament, seeks to provide for the registration and licensing coffee farmers across the country. The bill also proposes that land, where the coffee
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Kenya's interior ministry has said it has not renewed the licenses of 27 betting companies including the country's biggest, SportPesa. In a letter to telecoms company Safaricom, the government says that the companies have not met the "outstanding renewal requirements". But, correspondents say, it is not clear what exactly these
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Mastercard Wednesday announced the signing of two public-private partnerships that will extend the reach of the Mastercard Farmers Network (MFN) to millions of smallholderfarmers in Africa. Under this partnership, keypartners, the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) and the United States African Development Foundation (USADF), areproviding support to further roll out
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"It takes a village to raise a child": as the Fourth Industrial Revolution sweeps across Africa and more of its youth develop coding and other digital skills, there may come a time to update this old saying to: "It takes one child to raise the prospects of a village." And
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Kenyan motorists were forced to spend the night on the Mombasa-Nairobi highway following a huge traffic snarl-up at Tsavo, Daily Nation reports. The gridlock started at around 2am on Thursday after two trucks were involved in an accident, blocking both sides of the lanes. Mtito Andei traffic police boss Mr
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The Bank of Uganda Governor, Prof. Emmanuel Tumusiime-Mutebile has hailed the introduction of mobile money in 2009 as a game-changer in Uganda’s financial sector. Speaking on Financial Sector Deepening Uganda Breakfast Discussion on “Redefining Financial Inclusion” held at Kampala Serena Hotel on Wednesday, July 10, 2019, Mutebile acknowledged the unprecedented
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Members of Parliament are unhappy with the delayed roll out of commercial operations of Uganda’s national carrier-Uganda airlines. Government had promised that commercial flights would start on 1st July 2019, but two weeks down the road, the bombardier planes have remained grounded. This has forced Parliament to summon Minister of
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Government has shied away from presenting the controversial Marriage and Divorce Bill for the second reading. The Deputy Attorney General, Mwesigwa Rukutana made the unceremonious admission today after Deputy Speaker, Jacob Oulanyah asked Government to table the bill for the second reading, a duty Rukutana failed to execute asking for
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Stalled construction works at Mubende Regional Referral Hospital have been attributed to a high cost of implementation compared to annual budgetary allocations to the facility. In the 2013/2014 financial year, Mubende hospital signed a two and a half year contract with Ms ACE Consult, to construct a paediatric and surgical
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Tanzanian President John Magufuli has told women to "set your ovaries free" and have more children to help the country's economy grow, reports Reuters news agency. "When you have a big population, you build the economy. That's why China's economy is so huge. I know that those who like to
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