The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a 22% fall in international tourist arrivals during the first quarter of 2020, the latest data from the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) shows. According to the United Nations specialized agency, the crisis could lead to an annual decline of between 60% and 80% when compared
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In the face of an unprecedented challenge, the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO), with the support of the World Health Organization (WHO), calls on innovators and entrepreneurs to put forward new solutions to help the tourism sector recover from COVID-19. With millions of jobs at risk as the pandemic hits tourism
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Plumbing in Uganda is on the rise due to increasing construction demands by individuals, organizations and government civil works. Although not well documented, plumbing forms an integral part of the construction business contributing 13% to GDP according to National Bureau of Statistics FY2010/11. According to Lawrence Mwesigye a plumber and
Read MoreA survey by LinkedIn Learning drawn from 660+ million professionals and 20+ million jobs revealed the 15-most in-demand hard and soft skills of 2020. In no particular order these skills include: Cloud Computing Today, companies are built and run on the cloud. They need talents who have the skills to
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Ask any urbanite in the world, and they will probably tell you their city is the best. So, Flight Network set out to name the World’s Best Cities© by asking the experts — a 1000+ Travel Writers, Travel Bloggers and Travel Agencies from all around the globe, who have seen
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Celebrating the unique unifying power of diversity in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), a historic one-off Emirates A380 flight marking the 48th UAE National Day and the UAE Year of Tolerance took off from Dubai International Airport on November 29, 2019. Ugandans living in the UAE were part of the
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Safaricom and Huawei have jointly received the prestigious Most Innovative Service “the Business of Tomorrow” award at AfricaCom 2019 in Cape Town. This Award recognizes the two companies for offering the new revolutionary Mobile Money Overdraft service, known as “Fuliza”. This service enables users with insufficient funds in their M-PESA
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The Petroleum Authority of Uganda (PAU), the National Environment Management Authority (NEMA) and the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Development (MEMD) together with the Project Developers for the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) are conducting community dialogues in the ten (10) districts traversed by the EACOP project. The dialogues
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Wiebe Draijer, Chairman of the Managing Board of Rabobank, a Dutch multinational banking and financial services company and global leader in food and agriculture financing and sustainability-oriented banking, was in Uganda last week for a two-day visit as part of a regional tour of East Africa. The visit reaffirms Rabobank’s
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dfcu Ltd has posted Shs35.68bn net profit in the first six months of 2019 compared to Shs41.62bn registered in first six months of 2018. In unaudited results released today, the dfcu Ltd attributed the decline in net profit to lower recoveries in the first half of 2019 compared to the
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