Uganda’s Central Bank is yet to formally revoke licenses of seven defunct banks that were controversially closed 20 years since the first bank was closed in closed in 1993. Appearing before the Committee of Commissions, Statutory Authorities and State Enterprises (COSASE) on Friday, Margaret Kagwa, Legal Counsel, Bank of Uganda
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More than 10,000 people have expressed interest to join, the New Formation of Mugisha Muntu, the former Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) party President, URN reports. Alice Alaso, the former Serere District Woman MP, says that popularizing the new formation is on-going before it is finally launched by December 25th.
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Residents of Buzindere Village Mutima beach where MV Templar capsized blame the accident on failure to perform several cultural rituals before the boat started its journey. Fred Rwigyema, a witch doctor at Buzindere landing site says that the boat capsized because most of the people in the boat were traveling
Read MoreA new study released by the UN Children’s Fund, UNICEF, shows that the deteriorating crisis in the Central African Republic (CAR), five years into the latest civil conflict to hit the country, has left practically every child needing protection from armed groups, which now control four-fifths of the country’s territory.
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SENACA company security guard was arrested last night by Kira Rd Police for vandalizing newly installed CCTV camera equipment in Mulimira, Bukoto. The security guard’s name has not been revealed by Police. The CCTV cameras installed under the National Safe City Project are meant to solve problems of urban insecurity
Read MoreNEW-YORK, United-States of America, 29 November 2018,-/African Media Agency/-UN Women Executive Director, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka is in South Africa this week for a series of high-profile events marking the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence. Today, the Executive Director participated at an event hosted by the Nelson Mandela Foundation, The
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Singer Ginuwine’s concert which has been scheduled for tomorrow in Kampala is set to be called off after the promoter Shaka Mayanja reportedly disappeared with cash meant to pay service providers who are the organizers of the weekend concert. Elgin Baylor Lumpkin better known by his stage name Ginuwine (in
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Uganda's football team, The Uganda Cranes and its skipper, Goalkeeper, Denis Onyango, have been nominated by the Confederation of African Football (CAF), Africa's football governing body for the CAF Awards 2018. Onyango who plays for South African based Mamelodi Sundowns received a nod in the category of African Player of
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UK researchers have developed an early warning system to prevent the crops of African farmers from being devastated. The Pest Risk Information Service (Prise) combines temperature data and weather forecasts with computer models. It then sends farmers a mobile phone alert so that they can take precautions. It is hoped
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By AFP More by this Author WASHINGTON, US President Donald Trump on Thursday scrapped a planned meeting at the G20 summit with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin over Moscow's detention of a group of Ukrainian sailors. "Based on the fact that the ships and sailors have not been returned to
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