Deputy President William Ruto has called on the youth to take their rightful positions in the society and shape Africa’s development agenda towards economic prosperity. Ruto was speaking in Kampala, Uganda during the 2018 edition of the Young Achievers Awards. The Deputy President said that if they were to
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Kenya’s Director of Criminal Investigations (DCI) George Kinoti has warned banks and mobile service providers over financial fraud, saying cases are mostly perpetrated by their own employees, reports Daily Nation. Speaking in an event held at the Radisson Blu Hotel on Friday, Mr Kinoti urged financial institutions to conduct thorough
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The former Secretary General of the United Nations Kofi Annan is dead. Information gathered indicate that the former Ghanaian diplomat died in Switzerland on Thursday after a protracted illness. Mr. Annan was the 7th Secretary-General of the United Nations. He was appointed as the Secretary-General on 13 December 1996 by
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Uganda and neighboring Tanzania are set to hold the second Uganda-Tanzania Joint Permanent Commission (JPC) Ministerial meeting. The meeting will take place at Speke Resort Munyonyo from 21 – 23 August 2018. The JPC is an effective platform for enhancing and consolidating bilateral cooperation frameworks between the two countries. It
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Francis Zaake, the Mityana Municipality Member of Parliament has been dumped at Rubaga Hospital. Richard Lumu, Zaake's lawyer who is currently at Lubaga Hospital, says that Zaake was allegedly dumped at the facility on Friday morning by the army. According to Lumu, doctors at Rubaga have recommended that Zaake be
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The Speaker of Uganda’s Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga has called on government to lift the ban on fresh recruitment of health workers and physicians in public hospitals and health centres. She made the call while presiding over the launch of the strategic plan for Reproductive Maternal New born child and
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In the spring of 1994, Abdoul Salam Nizeyimana’s executioners arrived. It was about two weeks after the Hutu majority-controlled government stepped up its decades-long persecution of the Tutsi minority, calling on citizens to slaughter all Tutsis. Nizeyimana’s family was Tutsi, and it didn’t take long for the killers to come
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Police in south-western Tanzania have started arresting the residents of a village for vandalising some water pipes. The arrest of the entire village of Ngola was ordered by the area's regional commissioner Albert Chalamila on Wednesday. The residents are suspected of destroying a water facility worth about $20,000 (£16,000) in
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The Uganda shilling inched down undercut by a pickup in demand from local and offshore players during the week ending August 17, 2018. The volatile urgency touched fresh lows to trade at 3765/3775. In the interbank money markets overnight and one week funds held at the previous week's level of
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The United States Embassy in Uganda has challenged the East African nation to show the world that it can respect the rule of law. The embassy made this call in tweet on Friday while commenting on the chaotic before and after the Arua by-election in Wednesday. It also expressed concern
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