President Museveni attended and presided over as chief guest at the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair (ZITF) in Bulawayo stadium, Bulawayo city. He toured several stalls and exhibitions with variety of products made locally by Zimbabweans. He also awarded the best farmers at the exhibition, presented a trophy to Zimbabwe Police
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Like most city leaders, Jennifer Musisi, the former municipal head of Kampala, Uganda’s capital city, came into office with plans to shake up how local government did business. She wasn’t afraid to ruffle a few feathers in order to improve how Uganda’s largest metro area, long plagued by corruption and
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Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) is to get an additional Shillings 23billion in the coming financial year 2019/2020 budget. This is on top of the authority’s budgetary allocation of 431.26 billion shillings. Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) is to get an additional 23 billion shillings in the next financial year. This is
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World Half Marathon record holder Kenya’s Abraham Kiptum has been suspended provisionally by the IAAF after failing a dope test, Daily Nation reports. Kiptum will now not compete in London Marathon set for Sunday after the Athletes Integrity Unit (AIU) suspended him after having found some anomalies in his Athletes
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Barclays Bank of Uganda Ltd recorded Shs68.84bn profit after tax in 2018, down from Shs72bn registered in 2017, representing a reduction of 4.38%. This is according to the bank’s financial results for 2018 released yesterday. A critical look at the figures show that the profit reduced due to increased expenditure
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More than 1,000 police officers from the ranks of Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) to Special Police Constable (SPC) risk being deleted from the Police Force's payroll system after missing out on the manpower audit, URN reports. An internal police message dated April 24, 2019, from Police Human Resource Management
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Bank of Uganda, the regulator of the banking sector in the country is set for tough times ahead following the refusal by MPs to approve the Shs484.2bn the Central Bank had requested for recapitalization. The MPs instead reduced the figure to Shs200bn on grounds that the figure wasn’t justified and
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The world's most fertile woman has had an incredible 44 children - and now has to raise her massive brood on her own. Mariam Nabatanzi had her record number of babies by the time she was just 36 and all with the same father. Now 39, Mariam has had three sets of quadruplets, four
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Koboko district Resident District Commissioner () is among five people who died in a nasty accident along the Kampala Masaka highway on Friday morning. According to a statement issued by the police, the accident happened at Mpambire swamp along Kampala- Masaka highway three Miles from Mpiji Town. The police adds
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The Uganda Communications Commission (UCC) has partnered with selected schools and Greening Uganda in response to the environmental challenges caused by climate change and human activity. The Commission partnered with Sir Samuel Baker Secondary School in Gulu and Muntoyera High School in Kitunga to contribute to the environmental matters as
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