Government is set to legally start collecting toll fees on the multi-billion Kampala-Entebbe Expressway after President Yoweri Museveni signed the Road Bill into law. The latest development was communicated by Government spokesperson and Uganda Media Centre Executive Director, Ofwono Opondo via his official twitter handle. “President Kaguta Museveni has assented
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Ugandans living in Southern Africa have requested Parliament to interest itself in the fate of its members languishing in jails in Zimbabwe and Zambia. The Ugandans, arrested mostly for attempting to cross into South Africa without valid entry visas through the two countries have been detained for several months without
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The Uganda National NGO Forum and the civil society organizations fraternity in Uganda have condemned the highhanded and violent response to the students’ peaceful protest against the fifteen per cent (15%) tuition increment issued by the management of Makerere University. In a statement dated 29th October 2019, Richard Ssewakiryanga, the
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A Ghanaian 12 year-old prodigy has won a spot at university to study public administration. Viemens Bamfo (pictured) is the youngest out of nearly 3,000 students who have just been enrolled at The University of Ghana. He passed entrance exams with flying colours after being home-schooled by his father Robert
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Zimbabwe will roll out new bank notes and coins four months after it reintroduced its own the currency, the Zimbabwean dollar. The country has faced biting cash shortages since 2016 and abandoned the use of the US dollar as its official currency a few months ago as a way to
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Intern doctors under the Federation for Uganda Medical Interns (FUMI) have implored Parliament to help address a host of grievances affecting their work. The interns, who appeared before the House Committee on Health said that although they were fully fledged doctors offering frontline services in health facilities, they remained the
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The Speaker of Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga, has tipped Zambian legislators to choose national interest over those of their political parties while they discharge their Parliamentary mandate. Kadaga, who is in Lusaka at the invitation of her counterpart, Mr Patrick Matibini to conduct MPs on formulating their rules of procedure, known
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Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in the East African Community (EAC) need to have a uniform approach if they're to move to the next level. Speaking at the East African Business Council at Imperial Royale on Monday, Stella Apolot, the Principal Standards Officer at EAC Secretariat said that they are
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Huawei, a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider has today boosted the 2019 edition of the MTN Kampala Marathon with 250,000,000 shillings towards maternal health care in Uganda. The confirmation and official Cheque handover ceremony took place at Huawei Uganda Offices at the Cube Building, Kisementi in
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Social enterprises play a critical role in addressing many of the world's socio-economic challenges by uplifting communities, accelerating progress and creating job opportunities - and technology plays a key role in helping to increase their impact and scale. This was a major talking point at the Social Enterprise World Forum
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