The resignation of Congo’s health minister in the midst of the country’s worst Ebola outbreak could clear the way for a second experimental vaccine to be deployed. But the new shot would likely take months to win the trust of frightened locals and show results, health officials say. Oly Ilunga,
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President Yoweri Museveni and former South African President, Thabo Mbeki, on Tuesday had a meeting and reviewed the progress of the Horn of Africa member countries’ security, economic and political challenges as the region strives to realize regional integration. Mr. Mbeki is head of the African Union High Level Implementation
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The Sudanese army says that after foiling a military coup it has arrested several high ranking officers and senior members of the former governing National Congress Party (NCP). It is not clear exactly when the coup attempt happened, but the authorities could be referring to one that allegedly took place
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He's worked on Windows Mobile for Microsoft. He was cofounder of a company that sold to Russia's Google, Yandex, in a reported $38 million deal that made him wealthy. But Yaroslav Goncharov's biggest success (and stress) has come with a company that's miniscule by comparison: FaceApp. Leading a staff of
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Ugandan businessman Patrick Bitature has refuted reports that his businesses benefited from an offshore arrangement to lower his tax bill in Uganda. Recently, leaked documents from Mauritius showed that Bitature and his company Electro-Maxx Uganda Limited received loans from Africa Frontier 1 LLC, a company based in Mauritius. ALSO READ:
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By AFP Facebook reported Wednesday that its quarterly profit plummeted due to the cost of a US privacy settlement and forecast that regulation would slow its money-making ad machine. Profit in the second quarter fell 49 percent from a year ago to Sh270.4 billion (USD 2.6 billion) while revenues increased
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MPs have rejected a statement issued by Minister of State for Internal Affairs, Obiga Kania on delayed issuance of issue National Identification Cards (NIDs) by the National Identification Authority (NIRA), saying it fell short of solving the problem at hand. Obiga explained that there is a serious backlog which affects
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Henry Rotich was appointed finance minister in 2013Image caption: Henry Rotich was appointed finance minister in 2013 Kenya’s Finance Minister Henry Rotich has been sacked - a day after he was arraigned in court on charges of corruption. Labour Minister Ukur Yattani has been seconded to the role in an
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The Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Jacob Oulanyah, has said that businesses in Uganda collapse due to unexpected events in the financial sector and has called for mergers to help them survive. Oulanyah said that mergers and acquisitions are a subject that ought to be embraced by entrepreneurs to keep their
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Alliance for National Transformation (ANT) leader, Mugisha Muntu has said his party will work together with so called 'pro change forces' in a bid to 'oust the regime' of President Yoweri Museveni. Munti was commenting on the news that Kyadondo East lawmaker, Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine had unveiled his
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