The African Union’s plan to trim its Somalia peacekeeping force (AMISOM) will hurt the mission unless extra equipment is found to offset the troop decrease, the mission’s leader told Reuters on Monday. The force of 22,000 deployed a decade ago is set to lose 1,000 soldiers this year as part
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Uganda has adeqate stocks of anti-retroviral drugs to manage all the patients on treatment in the country, the ministry of health has said. The affirmation comes on the backdrop of reports that the country is facing a shortage of ARVs because more people were enrolled on the drugs following the
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MPs on Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Committee opposed to the lifting of Presidential Age Limits have refused to attend a meeting between the Committee and President Yoweri Museveni. The Committee is expected to interface with Museveni at State House Entebbe today regarding amending Article 102 (b) of the Constitution. If
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Police in north western Tanzania have detained a woman after a video emerged showing her apparently sharing a celebratory kiss with another woman, BBC reports. In the video two women were apparently seen hugging and kissing each other while dancing together in a room with a number of people taking
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The leaders of South Sudan's Roman Catholic Church are calling on the pope to visit this war-torn nation. "We know his heart is in South Sudan," Samuel Abe, secretary general for the archdiocese of Juba told the Associated Press on Monday. "My wish is if he comes he can be
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NRM supporters are set to have their Christmas with passing of the controversial Age Limit Bill before 15th December 2017. Credible sources reveal that NRM MPs in support of scrapping off the Presidential age limits from the Constitution are these days seen in the corridors of Parliament discussing their plan to
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Building solutions company, Hima Cement Limited has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with SOS Children’s Villages Uganda in a move aimed at improving household incomes in Harugongo Sub County in Fort Portal. Speaking during the launch of the partnership recently, Robert Bahenyangi, the Home Director at SOS Children’s Village in
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Sanlam Emerging Markets Proprietary Limited (SEM) on November 21 announced that it had successfully concluded the transaction whereby its subsidiary, Sanlam General Insurance Uganda Limited (SGIU), acquired close to 100% interest in the share capital of Lion Assurance Company Limited (LAC) in Uganda from Trans Industries Proprietary Limited and certain
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Vivo Energy Holding B.V. (“Vivo Energy”) Monday agreed to enter into a share transaction with Engen Holdings (Pty) Limited (“Engen Holdings”), a 100% subsidiary of Engen Limited, in relation to the purchase of shares in Engen International Holdings (Mauritius) Limited (“Engen International Holdings”) for the exchange of a shareholding in
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President Yoweri Museveni has called for blocking all the ways and causes of disability adding that the number of People With Disabilities (PWDs) should not grow beyond 4.4 million of the national population. “We need to block all the possibilities of disability to prevent more disabilities like we did to
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