A bill is currently going through parliament in Kenya that aims to ban use of mobile phones in online gambling, according to Kenya's Business Daily newspaper. If the law is passed, anyone who uses a phone to place a bet will be fined 2m Kenyan shillings ($20,000; £15,000). This will
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The debate about President Yoweri Museveni’s successor has been on for a long time although the ruling National Resistance (NRM) Party has distanced itself from it. However, Ruth Nankabirwa, the Government Chief Whip thinks NRM is prepared to continue ruling Uganda even when Museven is out of office. The Kiboga
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Three Bank of Uganda employees charged in the anti-corruption court over a procurement scandal have taken leave from office in line with the Public service rules that require a public servant to step aside, in the face of an investigation. The three officials are Francis Kakeeto, the Assistant Currency Director
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The Deputy Attorney General Mwesigwa Rukutana has disregarded a directive to apply to Court for the removal of Bemanya Twebaze as the Administrator of Uganda Telecom Limited (UTL). Bemanya was appointed Administrator of UTL following the exit of Ucom Limited, a Libyan owned firm that owned 69 per cent
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Uganda's President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni delivered a keynote address on trade and development at the opening ceremony of the first China-Africa Economic and Trade Expo. Hunan Province, China. Below is the full speech Vice Premier, H.E. Hu Chunhua; Vice Minister of Commerce, Mr. Qian Kamin; Secretary of Hunan Provincial Party
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Aviation Police has impounded narcotics drugs worth Shillings 5.2 billion at Entebbe International Airport in the last six months. The value of heroin drugs so far confiscated is just Shillings 2billion short of the amount of drugs impounded and destroyed in 2018. In March this year, the Deputy Inspector
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Mukono Chief Magistrate's Court has summoned Ida Erios Nantaba, the Information Communication and Technology State Minister to respond to charges of causing the death of Ronald Ssebulime. According to the court summon signed by the Mukono Chief Magistrate, Juliet Hatanga, Nantaba is wanted together with Police constables, Ronald Opilo, Ronald
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Government is opposed to the proposal to export unprocessed raw materials such as sugar canes. The Trade, industry and Cooperatives Minister, Amelia Kyambadde stated this while presenting a statement to parliament on the issue of excess sugar cane in Busoga Sub-region. Kyambadde told the House that the government discourages unprocessed
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By Godfrey Mutabazi I had an interesting interview with the BBC East Africa Bureau on concerns around the Taxing of Social Media, which I would like to repeat here. One of the concerns is on the figures reported by the Uganda Communications Commission of internet users that appear to be
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The Government of Uganda is working out modalities to ensure that all the coffee produced in the country is sold through cooperatives, URN reports. According to the Trade and Industries Minister, Amelia Kyambadde, the move is aimed at ensuring coffee farmers get fair prices for their produce. Although coffee production
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