Kenya's veteran politician Raila Odinga has been confirmed as the main opposition coalition's presidential candidate for August's election. [caption id="attachment_1090" align="alignnone" width="1024"] President Uhuru Kenyatta[/caption] Mr Odinga is set to face incumbent President Uhuru Kenyatta, the man who beat him in 2013. This will be the fourth time Mr Odinga
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Ugandan parliamentarians have threatened to block the education ministry budget if key sector areas remain unfunded. The lawmakers sitting on parliament's education committee made this threat on Wednesday while meeting officials from the ministry. Education ministry officials led by Minister Janet Museveni were appearing before the committee chaired by Mbale Woman MP
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Uganda's legislature has passed a motion seeking to declare a state of emergency in the country as hunger continues to batter the East African nation. The Legislators voted in favour of a motion moved by Kumi Woman Member of Parliament Monica Amoding, stating that Government has failed to handle the situation
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The problems dogging the president of the country's oldest political party have seems may take long to disappear. The latest we have gathered is that a section of lower Democratic Party-DP officials in Greater Masaka region have abandoned the leadership of their President General, Norbert Mao. Local news agency, URN reports that
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Members of Parliament (MPs) on the Committee of Statutory Authorities and State Enterprises (CoSASE) are set to meet Uganda’s President, Yoweri Museveni at State House, Entebbe today over his role in the Shs6bn oil handshake, Business Focus has established. Led by Committee Chairman, Abdu Katuntu, the lawmakers are set to ask
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This week, more than 138,000 vaccinators will fan out across five African countries in the Lake Chad area in a push to eliminate polio in Africa and rid the world of this terrible disease forever. They will take boats across fast-flowing rivers, ride jeeps along sandy ravines, walk crowded street
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Investors planning to set up businesses 50 kilometres outside Kampala city are set to eat big as government plans to reduce carbon emissions and decongest the city, Business Focus reveals. In the 2017/18 National Budget, government plans giving investors free land and tax holidays as it aims at achieving a
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A teacher from Trans Nzoia County is in deep agony, thanks to money he borrowed from a bank to improve the welfare of his family. John Manyara says he borrowed KSh1.2 million from the bank in August 2011. He was supposed to repay the loan over six years, meaning he
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She’s the woman raising eyebrows in France’s political race — and she’s not even one of the candidates. As the competition heats up all eyes are on Brigitte Trogneux, 64, the wife of breakout candidate Emmanuel Macron, 39, who could become the next President if he beats anti-establishment stalwart Marine
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Uganda’s Shs30trn budget for the Financial Year 2017/18 is set to benefit farmers than ever before. The budget being discussed by Parliament is expected to be passed and approved soon. If passed in its current form, it will see a number of taxes on key agricultural items including irrigation equipment
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