We’re back for a new season and we’ve been eagerly following the first few results of the season. We start with a pick from the Championship and one from League Two, with Aston Villa having made a bright start to their campaign, while Colchester look as though they could challenge
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Liberia's President Georgew Weah has lavishly praised former Arsenal former manager Arsène Wenger, as he gave him with the West African state's highest honour - the Knight Grand Commander of the Humane Order of African Redemption. “You proved yourself as a teacher when you revolutionised forever the approach of scouting
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The Uganda shilling weakened as the lingering political events triggered a negative sentiment that led to building dollar positions by market players. Trading was in the range of 3750/60 during the week ending August 24, 2018. In the interbank money market, rates held steady to trade at 6% and 9%
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Uganda's former Inspector General of Police (IGP), General Kale Kayihura is appearing before the General Court Martial in Makindye. Kayihura who was arrested in June and detained at Makindye Military barracks is expected to be charged with abuse of office. The former police chief who was sacked in March this
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Museveni’s government is in disarray but why won’t it fall? By Andrew M. Mwenda The recent crackdown on pro “Free Bobi Wine” protesters in Kampala is not a sign of President Yoweri Museveni’s strength but vulnerability. This crackdown is being conducted by the police reinforced by the army. The soldiers
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Equity Bank Uganda on Thursday morning signed a partnership deal with Uganda’s iconic football club, Express FC worth one hundred million shillings. (100 million shillings) Speaking at the partnership signing held at the bank's headquarters at Church House in Kampala, Anthony Kituuka, the Executive Director at Equity Bank Uganda, said;
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Global music and video streaming platform, TIDAL in partnership with the leading communications operator in Uganda offering mobile & fixed telecommunications, MTN Uganda, have today announced an exciting, first-of-its kind collaboration. The partnership provides MTN Uganda customers a variety of options for a data-inclusive TIDAL membership as part of their
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Rights activists in Kenya are demanding officials in neighboring Uganda release Robert Kyagulanyi, a Ugandan politician and musician popularly known as Bobi Wine. Kyagulanyi has been held by Ugandan authorities since his August 14 arrest in the northwestern town of Arua, where campaigning was taking place for the municipality parliamentary
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Equity Bank’s three-year-old subsidiary in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has become its most profitable subsidiary, the lender has disclosed, underlining the potential in the resource-rich central African nation. According to Business Daily, Equity Bank Congo made a KSh700 million (UShs26bn) profit before taxation in the six months ended
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Ugandan police have surrounded the homes of several opposition politicians and lawyers after receiving what a police spokesman said was information that they would “incite people to riot” over a court hearing for a detained opposition lawmaker. The detention of lawmaker Robert Kyagulanyi and four other politicians critical of President
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