Months after Tanzania and Uganda inked a 1,445-kilometre billion dollar crude oil pipeline deal, President John Magufuli has pledged speedy implementation of the line that will run to the port city of Tanga. Addressing a public rally in Ruzingwa, Uganda Thursday before laying the second foundation stone for the project,
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The Catholic Church has warned ‘rebel’ priest Fr. Jacinto Kibuuka against misleading the innocent faithful with false doctrine. In a statement dated November 10, 2017 signed off by Most Rev. John Baptist Odama, the Archbishop of Gulu and Chairman of Uganda Episcopal Conference, the Catholic Church says Fr. Kibuuka can’t
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There was a battle of brands during the official handover of the Jinja Storage Terminal by the energy ministry to the Uganda National Oil Company (UNOC) last week. The Storage Terminal managed by a private firm, One Petroleum operates under UNOC and received funding from Equity Bank Uganda to refurbish
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More than 400 representatives of youth, business, education practitioners and policy-making from 44 countries across the African continent as well as European partners have called for improving job perspectives of the African Youth through employment oriented education and skills development. The call was made at the recently concluded “Africa Talks
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By Livingstone Mukasa The way markets allocate resources can be sometimes ruthless. Take the fact that 8 Men in the West are richer than 3,600,000,000 people at the bottom of the pyramid. Why would this be acceptable? And why would it be happening on our watch. Less than 500 years
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President Yoweri Museveni has urged Ugandans to make sure that they prepare to benefit and earn from the Hoima- Tanga crude oil pipeline. This was during a rally President Museveni and his visiting Tanzanian counterpart. John Pombe Magufuli addressed Thursday at Kyotera Local district headquarters. “We have brought wealth to
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After retiring from civil service, Israel Mudimba Mangeni attempted join elective politics albeit unsuccessfully. He was working at the ministry of finance headquarters in Kampala. He was defeated three times and lost part of his savings in the process. Mudimba had earlier contested to become the Bukooli South Constituency MP
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After holding two elections within three months, Kenya is no closer to resolving a standoff over who is its rightful leader. President Uhuru Kenyatta was named the winner of the latest balloting Oct. 26. But his opponent, former Prime Minister Raila Odinga, calls the vote a sham, and its legitimacy is
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The President of Uganda Yoweri Kaguta Museveni and his Tanzanian counterpart, John Pombe Joseph Magufuli Thursday jointly commissioned the Mutukula One Stop Border Post (OSBP), bringing the number of OSBPs in Uganda to four. The One Stop Border Post is an integrated border system that brings together all the border
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Kenya Commercial Bank’s (KCB’s) regional subsidiaries have registered profit on the back of relative currency stability, helping the lender absorb the impact of the interest rate cap back at home, reports the Standard. The six subsidiaries, including Uganda and Tanzania, collectively contributed Sh586 million in the January-September period, up from
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