Agriculture can provide jobs to Uganda’s unemployed youth if well harnessed, according to the 12th Uganda Economic Update published late last year by the World Bank. The report, “Developing Uganda’s Agri-Food System for Inclusive Economic Growth,” notes that the sector’s economic contribution extends well beyond the production sector into the
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The Africa Internship Academy (AIA) is a successful youth employment accelerator in Ghana, that provides work readiness and entrepreneurship programs for secondary & higher education students as well as graduates to gain entrepreneurial and employability skills: after proceeds to assign mentors to them: and either connect them to employers looking
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The Speaker of Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga has given the Minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs, Kahinda Otafiire two months to table the electoral reforms responding to the 2016 Supreme Court ruling. It should be recalled that when former Premier, Amama Mbabazi challenged President Yoweri Museveni’s victory in 2016 on grounds
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By Drake Nyamugabwa A new study has revealed that 55%of Persons With Disabilities (PWDs) in Uganda use mobile money platform. The study commissioned by the Uganda Communications Commission (UCC) with the main objective of establishing the current patterns of access, usage and challenges of PWDs to Information Communication and Technology
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Uganda is the second most corrupt country in the East African Community after South Sudan, according to the latest report released by Transparency International Uganda. The report was released today at Grand Imperial Hotel in Kampala. The report shows that Uganda just places on the global corruption index from the
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A section of NRM Rebel MPs have fired back at the Party’s Secretary General, warning her against orchestrating plans to front President Yoweri Museveni as a sole candidate in the 2021 polls, saying the move goes against the democratic principles of the ruling party. Led by Dr. Sam Lyomoki, the
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By AFP China on Tuesday decried the "political manipulations" behind the US case against Huawei as Washington indicted the tech giant's chief financial officer and levelled sweeping charges against the company. "For some time, the US has used state power to discredit and crack down on specific Chinese companies in
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KENYA. When Mr Hassan Abdi Nur, a mobile money agent, was arraigned for the 14 Riverside Drive attack, it must have come as a shock to people in similar businesses that the nature and size of transactions could put them in danger. Investigators are yet to link the transactions to
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Parliament is set to investigate Makerere University crisis that has left the University staff at loggerheads with the institution’s top mismanagement. This was confirmed by Speaker, Rebecca Kadaga while responding to a petition presented to her by the suspended leaders of Makerere University Academic Staff Association (MUASA). In their petition,
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The bodies of six children in Tanzania have been found with their ears and teeth removed, authorities told the BBC. Some of the bodies were also missing limbs and were badly mutilated. The killings raised concern about witchcraft in the area, the Njombe region in south-western Tanzania. Njombe District Commissioner
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