"It takes a village to raise a child": as the Fourth Industrial Revolution sweeps across Africa and more of its youth develop coding and other digital skills, there may come a time to update this old saying to: "It takes one child to raise the prospects of a village." And
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Kenyan motorists were forced to spend the night on the Mombasa-Nairobi highway following a huge traffic snarl-up at Tsavo, Daily Nation reports. The gridlock started at around 2am on Thursday after two trucks were involved in an accident, blocking both sides of the lanes. Mtito Andei traffic police boss Mr
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The 1st Uganda-Tanzania business forum scheduled to take place on the 4th to 5th September 2019, in Dar-es-salaam has mounted high expectations as it will focus on the bilateral trade and investment opportunities between the two East African countries. The forum which will take place at Julius Nyerere International Convention
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Members of Parliament are unhappy with the delayed roll out of commercial operations of Uganda’s national carrier-Uganda airlines. Government had promised that commercial flights would start on 1st July 2019, but two weeks down the road, the bombardier planes have remained grounded. This has forced Parliament to summon Minister of
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Government has shied away from presenting the controversial Marriage and Divorce Bill for the second reading. The Deputy Attorney General, Mwesigwa Rukutana made the unceremonious admission today after Deputy Speaker, Jacob Oulanyah asked Government to table the bill for the second reading, a duty Rukutana failed to execute asking for
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Stalled construction works at Mubende Regional Referral Hospital have been attributed to a high cost of implementation compared to annual budgetary allocations to the facility. In the 2013/2014 financial year, Mubende hospital signed a two and a half year contract with Ms ACE Consult, to construct a paediatric and surgical
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Tanzanian President John Magufuli has told women to "set your ovaries free" and have more children to help the country's economy grow, reports Reuters news agency. "When you have a big population, you build the economy. That's why China's economy is so huge. I know that those who like to
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The Minister of Local Government, Tom Butime has said that the problem of rural-urban migration can majorly be solved by urbanizing the rural areas, revealing that his Ministry has embarked on a deliberate strategy to urbanise rural areas so as to attract development and increase revenue collection. “If we create
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Government has been tasked to present a comprehensive statement explaining the status of the proposed International Specialized Hospital of Uganda in Lubowa, Wakiso district. In March, the Ugandan Parliament guaranteed a 1.4 trillion Shillings loan to Finasi/ROKO for the construction of the 264-bed Specialized health care project. But
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The vice-president of the Burundian football association, FFB, has been arrested pending an investigation after the apparent disappearance of bonus money for the national team players who were recently in Egypt for the Africa Cup of Nations finals. The BBC understands that Aimable Habimana, also known as Marandura, has been
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