Japanese car parts maker Takata has filed for bankruptcy protection in the US and Japan. It is facing billions of dollars in liabilities over its defective airbags, which have been linked to at least 17 deaths worldwide. Some of the airbags contained faulty inflators which expanded with too much force,
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The Uganda government spokesperson, Ofwono Opondo has dismissed social media reports that the country's president has reshuffled his cabinet. Opondo made this dismissal in a tweet on Monday evening after a list purporting to show new cabinet members started making rounds on social media platforms and various WhatsApp groups. "Ministers
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The African Union (AU) chairman, Alpha Conde has praised Ugandan President Youweri Museveni, baptising the latter with new title of Founding Father of New African dynamism. Conde who is also Guinea President revealed this while addressing a joint Press Conference with President Yoweri Museveni on Sunday, saying with a new
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Non-governmental organisations in Tanzania have been warned against campaigning for school girl mothers to be allowed back to school, the country's Citizen newspaper reports. Home Affairs Minister Mwigulu Nchemba has threatened the NGOs with deregistration, the newspaper adds. This comes after President John Magufuli told a rally that, in accordance
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The National Social Security Fund (NSSF) has spoken out on media reports claiming that over 30 employees at the Fund have been sent packing. In a press statement dated June23, 2017, Richard Byarugaba, the Managing Director at NSSF, says that the Fund conducted an end of employment contract review process
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Uganda's Former Tourism Minister, Maria Mutagmba is dead. Mutagamba passed away at Case Clinic in the country's capital Kampala on Saturday. Reports indicate she had been admitted at the medical facility a week before she breathed and her last and was being treated for gallstones. Gallstones (commonly misspelled gall stones
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Lwengo district chairmain, George Mutaabazi has spoken out for the first time about his arrest aboard a RwandAir flight from Kigali to Entebbe International airport, denying reports he was taken off for beein drunk. Social media platforms have been awash with a video showing Rwanda Police officers handcuffing the no
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Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) council has been cautioned to desist from any attempt of implementing the Rent Restriction Act, a 1949 legislation that would result into setting rent ceilings for city landlords. The authority has been thinking about how the colonial era piece of legislation can be implemented following
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One of the beneficiaries of the controversial Presidential handshake oil cash bonanza has threatened to petition to court seeking to stop government from implementing Parliament's findings and recommendations. Parliament's Committee on Commissions, Statutory Authorities and State Enterprises (COSASE) this week tabled an over-90 page report from investigations into the 6
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Tanzania's President John Magufuli has been condemned for comments that girls who give birth should not be allowed to return to school. An online petition has been set up and a pan-African women's organisation is mobilising to get the president to apologise and reverse his comments. Mr Magufuli warned schoolgirls
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