It was an action packed rugby tournament as the Guinness Sponsored Rugby Cranes 7s team retained their Rugby Africa Mens’ 7s trophy over the weekend. Adrian Kasito scored a marvelous try in the game’s dying minutes to restore Uganda’s Rugby Cranes as the champions. [caption id="attachment_5265" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Adrian Kasito
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The Government of Uganda Tuesday signed two Production Sharing Agreements (PSA) and issued two Licenses for Petroleum Exploration, Development and Production over the Ngassa Contract Area with Oranto Petroleum Limited from Nigeria. Speaking during the Ceremony held at Amber House, Eng. Irene Muloni, Minister of Energy and Mineral Development said,
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Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga has pulled out of October's election re-run. Mr Odinga said his withdrawal would give the electoral commission enough time to introduce reforms that will help deliver a more credible election. The Supreme Court annulled the result of the original 8 August poll after finding irregularities
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The Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Committee has finalized the road-map on how the controversial Constitutional Amendment Bill (No2) 2017 commonly referred to us Age Limit Bill will be processed. This was revealed by Markson Oboth Oboth, the Committee Chairperson during a press briefing held at Parliament on Tuesday. He revealed
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A couple of weeks ago, I was approached by Business Focus Online Magazine to write a weekly column. It has taken me a bit of time to compose this piece. For a while, while am a prolific writer, I kind of had a writer mental block and also my schedules
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Rwanda’s military has repeatedly tortured detainees - beating them, asphyxiating them, using electric shocks and even staging mock executions, a new Human Rights Watch report has found. Most of the people detained were civilians suspected of working with armed groups. All were held in secret military detention centers whose existence Rwanda denies. Judges and prosecutors
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Microsoft appears to have abandoned its smartphone operating system ambitions. The company's Windows 10 chief has tweeted that developing new features and hardware for the Mobile version of the OS was no longer a "focus". Joe Belfiore added that he had also switched to Android himself. Windows 10 Mobile tried to attract
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Egypt's President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi has given a bonus of US$85,000 (Shs308.5bn) to each of the players who clinched a place at the 2018 World Cup finals in Russia. A 2-1 win over Congo Brazzaville on Sunday saw them qualify for the global showpiece for the first time since 1990.
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Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni has made changes in the Uganda People Defense Forces (UPDF) leadership. According to a statement from the defence ministry, in the new changes, the President has appointed Brigadier Dick Prit Olum as the country’s Defence Advisor in Kinshasa in neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo. Brig Olumu
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Uganda's President, Yoweri Museveni has blamed the increasing poverty in the country on excessive alcohol consumption. He says local leaders in the country have failed to encourage Ugandans to work hard and left them to indulge themselves in alcohol consumption and gambling. Museveni was speaking during celebrations to the 55
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