UN peacekeepers in Mali have given what villagers in a remote part of the West African country have called a “real glimmer of hope.” NEW-YORK, United-States of America, 9 January 2019,-/African Media Agency (AMA)/-Senegalese troops from the UN mission, MINUSMA, patrolled southeast of Mali’s central Mopti region to create what the
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Bank of Uganda officials have failed to defend the Shs900m paid to MMAKS advocates for external legal advice during Crane Bank sale. BoU officials were Tuesday appearing before Parliament’s Committee on Commissions, Statutory Authorities and State Enterprises (COSASE) in which they were tasked to explain how they hired MMAKS Advocates
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Busitema University has joined the strike by staff at public universities in Uganda. Eng. Godfrey Ssajja Ssali, the Chairperson of the Busitema University Academic Staff Association - BUASA says they are have decided to join the rest of the public universities following a joint resolution by the Forum for Academic
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Herbert Muhangi, the former Commandant of the Police Flying Squad and five other senior police officers have been charged for failure to protect war materials, aiding and abetting kidnaps in Uganda. The six appeared before the Makindye based General Court Martial Chaired by Lt. Gen. Andrew Gutti on Tuesday afternoon.
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Authorities in Zambia have ordered a local manufacturer to stop the production and distribution of an energy drink that reportedly caused a prolonged erection in a man. The move comes after the Uganda Bureau of Standards (UBS) said in a letter dated 4 January that it had tested samples from
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Uganda’s Ministry of Health failed to spend Shs3.6bn provided for in the 2017/2018 national budget yet it has a huge domestic debt. This is contained in the Auditor General’s 31st December 2018 Audit report. The report indicates that the institution is grappling with domestic arrears amounting to Shs42.59bn. After the
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Egypt will host the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations, the Confederation of African Football (Caf) has announced. Egypt beat South Africa, the only other nation to submit a bid, in a vote held at a Caf executive committee meeting. Original host nation Cameroon was stripped of staging duties in November
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By BBC SPORT Reaching the Asian Cup finals for the first time would be no small achievement for Yemen at the best of times. But doing so as war and famine push the poorest country on the Arabian peninsula into the abyss has made it a minor miracle. This is
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Uganda's Finance Minister, Matia Kasaija, has refuted media reports that the country could lose property if it fails to service the public debt that now stands at a whopping Shs41.Tn. Kasaija made the statements on Tuesday following local media reports that the government is poised to lose property over the
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The outgoing Chairperson of Parliamentary Committee of Commissions, Statutory Authorities and State Enterprises (COSASE), Abdu Katuntu has spoken out publicly for the first time about what has turned out to be the ‘COSASE leadership saga’. This is after Speaker Rebecca Kadaga extended the tenure of Katuntu led Committee by a
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