During his stay in South Africa, Xi attended the 10th BRICS summit in Johannesburg BEIJING, China, July 30, 2018,-/African Media Agency (AMA)/- President Xi Jinping returned to Beijing on July 29 after state visits to the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Senegal, Rwanda and South Africa. During his stay in South
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These strategies assist in developing the public health workforce in Sierra Leone to improve epidemiologic capacity to evaluate and strengthen public health surveillance systems FREETOWN, Sierra Leone, July 30, 2018,-/African Media Agency (AMA)/- On Friday, July 27, Charge d’Affaires Tomekah L. Burl attended the graduation ceremony of the first cohort
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By Sherry Zameer According to the 2017 Mobile Economy Report of the GSM Association, Africa currently has 420 million unique mobile subscribers representing a 43 percent penetration. By 2020, the Report predicts that 500 million Africans will be mobile subscribers, making it the fastest-growing mobile market. Perhaps more important, smartphone
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Huawei Friday presented a special award to Turkish professor Dr. Erdal Arikan, the inventor of polar codes for 5G, in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the development of communications technology. At the ceremony, held at Huawei's global headquarters in Shenzhen, the company also honored more than 100 Huawei scientists
Read MoreAfrica is rightly called the mobile continent, and mobility increasingly defines how Africa enters the Digital Age. By Sherry Zameer, SVP IOT for CISMEA at Gemalto Sherry Zameer, Senior Vice President, IoT solutions for CISMEA Region at Gemalto JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, 30 July 2018 -/African Media Agency
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MTN Uganda Foundation yesterday donated hospital equipment to Oriajin Hospital based in Arua as part of its Access to Health Care initiative project. The donation will benefit hundreds of patients from the West Nile region and neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo who frequent one of Northern Uganda’s busiest public hospitals.
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By Andrew M. Mwenda The decision by Uganda government to re-establish a state-run airline is a strategic mistake. In the early 1990s Uganda took a strategic decision to get government out of business. It disbanded state monopolies, privatized state run enterprises, liquidated others (like Uganda Airlines) and largely restricted itself
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Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni, has shared his thoughts on recent happenings (Mbale ruling, elections in new municipalities) in the country. Below is his write-up. Countrymen and women, 1. I draw your attention to my two recent short speeches: one, in Parliament when HE Modi addressed Parliament of Uganda; and, the
Read MoreHospital leverages digital technologies to improve access to healthcare and address local socio-economic challenges. MOMBASA, Kenya, 30th July 2018 -/African Media Agency (AMA)/- Hospitals across the continent are confronted with challenges brought by technological disruption and increased demands. According to the World Economic Forum, in order to deliver continued
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Senior journalist Stanley Ndawula, the Editor at ‘The Investigator’, an online publication, who was kidnapped Saturday morning and detained incommunicado has finally been released by the Internal Security Organisation (ISO). Speaking after his release on Sunday, Ndawula said as he was seeing off some of the customers at his business-Yaya
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