Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) allowed 575 unlicensed butchers to operate in the city, a report presented before the City Authority has revealed. The report was tabled by the Acting KCCA Public Health Director, Dr. Dickens Okello. The report shows that although the directorate l inspected 892 butchers last year,
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Coca-Cola has announced a pledge to recycle a used bottle or can for every one the company sells by 2030. Calling it a "massive global ambition" the firm admitted its part in littering the environment and a responsibility to tackle the problem. The company, which markets 500 brands of fizzy
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The US government has begun shutting down many of its services after the Senate failed to agree on a new budget. A bill to fund the federal government until 16 February did not receive the required 60 votes amid a bitter dispute over immigration and border security. It is the
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Nigeria’s House of Representatives passed a bill governing the country’s energy sector after the Senate did so in May, taking Africa’s top oil producer one step closer to a much-awaited overhaul of the key industry, reports Bloomberg. The Petroleum Industry Governance Bill now awaits President Muhammadu Buhari’s signing to become
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Pope Francis married a couple of airline employees aboard the papal plane as it flew over Chile on the third day of his South American trip. Francis formally joined in matrimony 41-year-old Carlos Ciuffardi and Paula Podest, 39, who have two children and are both flight attendants. The Chilean couple
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President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni presided over the pass out of 919 prisons officers at the Luzira Prisons Training Academy today. They included 706 warders and warderesses and 213 non-commissioned officers. While delivering his address, the president revealed that he will change his mind on assenting to the death penalty since
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A religious community from Burundi living in a UN refugee transit camp is refusing to move to another camp because it objects to biometric registration, reports the BBC. A spokesman for the UN's refugee agency (UNHCR) says emergency assistance to the group - food, water and sanitation - will be
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By Amon Baita Middle East Consultants Ltd Managing Director, Gordon Mugyenyi has predicted a shining future for unemployed educated Ugandans in the next five years if Saudi Arabia fully opens doors of its huge job market to Uganda’s professional labour force following a bilateral agreement signed by governments of these
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If you have huge cash on your Mobile Money (MM) Account, you risk losing it in case the telecom operator collapses. This is revelation was made by Justine Bagyenda, the Executive Director- Supervision at Bank of Uganda (BoU) while appearing before the Parliamentary Committee Of Communications and Technology on Thursday.
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President Yoweri Museveni has said that unless solar becomes a cheaper alternative source of clean energy, Africa and Uganda in particular will have to use nuclear energy to improve the well being of its people. The President revealed this on Wednesday afternoon during a meeting with the Director General of
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