The Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index, 2020 has revealed Africa’s most countries. Released on January 28, 2020, the report ranks Sudan, Somalia, Sudan, Equatorial Guinea and Libya as Africa’s top corrupt countries. Others are DR Congo, Guinea Bissau, Congo, Burundi and Eritrea. The least corrupt countries are Seychelles, Botswana, Cape Verde,
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The Biden administration has ended the deadlock over the next head of the World Trade Organization (WTO) by expressing its "strong support" for Nigeria's ex-finance minister. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala (pictured) was frontrunner for the role until the Trump administration last October said it wanted another woman, South Korea's Yoo Myung-hee. Ms Yoo has
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The Uganda National Bureau of Standards (UNBS) has called upon all companies with laboratories to ensure that they adhere to the quality Standards for laboratories; ISO/IEC 17025:2017 General requirements for testing and calibration laboratories, ISO 9001 requirements. The call was made during an online stakeholder engagement with all companies that
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Turkish Investment Group, ASB has failed to utilize 18 square miles of land Nakasseke district that was given out by Government through the Uganda Free Zones Authority (UFZA). The land was allocated to the company five years ago. The shocking revelation was made by UFZA Executive Director, Hez Kimoomi Alinda while meeting MPs on Finance
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In January 2019, UN Women and Standard Bank Group partnered to form a Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) programme aimed at empowering more than 50,000 women farmers in Uganda, Malawi, Nigeria and South Africa to take up modern and environmentally friendly farming technologies to increase yields and incomes across the agriculture value
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Dominic Ongwen is the first LRA commander to appear before the International Criminal Court Known as the "White Ant", convicted war criminal Dominic Ongwen is estimated to have been between nine and 14 years old when he was abducted by the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) as he was walking to
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Gregory Dow was already a sex offender when he set up the orphanage/YouTube A US man has been sentenced to more than 15 years in prison for abusing underage girls in an orphanage in Kenya. Christian missionary Gregory Dow set up the orphanage with his wife in 2008. "Gregory Dow
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The Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development is setr to push for land amendment Bill that will see Government hold titles of land bought with encumbrances. This was revealed by Betty Kamya (pictured), the Minister for Lands, Housing and Urban Development while appearing before Parliament’s Budget Committee to seek for Shs7.6bn funding to
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The Minister of Internal Affairs, Gen Jeje Odongo (pictured) has admited that there are many illegal guns out there which have not been documented despite the gun census in the police, army and among private licence owners. He madeg the remarks after Speaker Rebecca Kadaga said she was concerned about the large number
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Premier Recruitment has been securing Ugandans jobs abroad There are a number of lucurative job offers up for grabs at Premier Recruitment Ltd after the Uganda labour recruiting agancy secured 850 job offers in Qatar. According to a letter dated 3rd February 2021 to Premier Recruitment, Aletqan Manpower company based in
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