Kenya has beaten 14 African countries including Uganda to host the lucrative United Nationals Global Shared Service Centre. This is according to the Report of the UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres titled ‘Global service delivery model for the United Nations Secretariat’ dated 8 January 2019. The report will soon be
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Deputy President William Ruto has called on African countries to continue accepting financial help from the West or China as long as it boosts infrastructure on the continent but doesn’t lead to re-colonisation, Daily Nation reports. In a lecture delivered at the UK’s Warwick University on Saturday, Dr Ruto said
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Uganda is the second most corrupt country in the East African Community after South Sudan, according to the latest report released by Transparency International Uganda. The report was released today at Grand Imperial Hotel in Kampala. The report shows that Uganda just places on the global corruption index from the
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By AFP China on Tuesday decried the "political manipulations" behind the US case against Huawei as Washington indicted the tech giant's chief financial officer and levelled sweeping charges against the company. "For some time, the US has used state power to discredit and crack down on specific Chinese companies in
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KENYA. When Mr Hassan Abdi Nur, a mobile money agent, was arraigned for the 14 Riverside Drive attack, it must have come as a shock to people in similar businesses that the nature and size of transactions could put them in danger. Investigators are yet to link the transactions to
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Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has called Somalia a country with no state and which lacks “organised authority” in a televised speech in the capital, Kampala. He said Somalia was one example but stopped at naming other countries “for diplomatic reasons”. Mr Museveni was speaking at an annual judges' conference. In
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Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir has said there are efforts to destabilise his country through an attempt to replicate the so-called Arab Spring, BBC reports. He was speaking in Egypt's capital Cairo after meeting his counterpart Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. It is his second foreign trip since protests began in December. The
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Kenya has set its sights on India and Spain as it seeks to grow tourism numbers to 2.5 million arrivals by 2022. In a statement, the Kenya Tourism Board (KTB) said it will be leading local travel agents on marketing missions to the two countries. More than 10 Kenyan travel
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China's economy grew at its slowest rate since 1990, stoking fears about the impact on the global economy. China expanded at 6.6% in 2018, official figures out Monday showed. In the three months to December, the economy grew 6.4% from a year earlier, down from 6.5% in the previous quarter.
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Uganda's President, Yoweri Museveni is in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa where he is meeting with other African leaders to discuss the Democratic Republic of Congo’s disputed presidential election after questions were raised about the accuracy of the vote’s results. Opposition leader Felix Tshisekedi was declared the surprise winner of the Dec. 30
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