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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Militias in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo are uniting in opposition to President Joseph Kabila, a senior U.N. official there told a news conference in Geneva on Wednesday. In 2017, a brutal conflict in Congo's southwestern Kasai region drew international attention and condemnation because of reports of atrocities by pro-government
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Cedric Bakambu is set to become the most expensive African footballer of all time after Beijing Guoan agreed to meet Villarreal's release clause. The Spanish club set the clause at 40m euros (£35.3m) for the Chinese Super League-bound DR Congo striker. But the total fee will be around £65m because
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A traditional healer conned hundreds of women into believing they were pregnant. Police in Guinea say they have arrested this ‘miracle worker’, the BBC reports. N'na Fanta Camara gave women who had been unable to conceive a mixture of leaves, herbs and other medicines that caused them to bloat and
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The medical authorities in Uganda have warned that blood transfusion supplies in the country are critically low. The blood bank facility in the capital Kampala is reported to be practically empty, with only about 100 units of blood available, rather than the thousand-plus units required every day. The head of
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The Minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs General Kahinda Otafiire has said that the increment of salaries of judges and state attorneys will not necessarily end corruption in Uganda’s justice system. According to the Minister, circumstances have shown that public and civil servants who were taking home reasonable money are
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Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni accused the United Nations on Wednesday of “preserving terrorism” in neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo where U.N. peacekeepers have been unable to curb deadly attacks by Islamist rebels. Museveni levelled the criticism in a statement after meeting U.N. officials investigating an ambush of peacekeepers in eastern
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