Uhuru Kenyatta The family of Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta secretly owned a network of offshore companies for decades, according to a huge leak of financial papers. The Pandora Papers - 12 million files - is the biggest such leak in history. Mr Kenyatta and six members of his family have
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Passengers boarding the Airbus ahead of Uganda Airlines' maiden flight to Dubai Uganda Airlines today October 4, 2021 officially launched its maiden flight to Dubai in what has been described as a game-changing milestone for the national carrier. Dubai is the first international route that Uganda Airlines is plying using
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Gen. Jeje Odongo, the Minister of Foreign Affairs addressing participants The first ever Uganda-Saudi Arabia coffee expo 2021 took place today September 29, 2021, with calls for Uganda to tap into the virgin Middle East coffee market. Themed “The Uganda Coffee Industry Perspective: farming, processing and export”, the virtual event
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Brazil coffee affected by frost. Brazil is now predicting its coffee crop will shrink by more than 25% this year/Courtesy photo Brazil’s crops have been scorched, frozen and then dried out by the worst drought in a century, upending global commodity markets. No country on Earth puts more breakfasts on
Read MoreEntebbe International Airport The government could spend close to Shillings 70 billion to set up and operate the testing centre for arriving passengers at Entebbe International Airport. Mandatory COVID-19 testing for all in-bound passengers is expected to commence next week. Initially, the Ministry of Health had proposed that effective September 3,
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Protesters from the Beja community blocked two crucial oil pipelines Sudan's transitional authority has reached an agreement with protesters who had blocked two crucial pipelines in the east and disrupted the flow of oil in and out of the country. The demonstrators from the Beja community have been protesting for
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British High Commissioner to Uganda Kate Airey tasting Uganda Coffee at the UCDA coffee lab in Lugogo. This was during the launch of the UG-UK Arabica coffee cupping competition. Looking on is UCDA MD Emmanuel Iyamulemye (R) The British High Commissioner to Uganda, Kate Airey, has described Uganda’s coffee as
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Laboratory workers supervise the production of the Sinovac vaccine, produced by Vacsera, in Cairo. Photographer: Khaled Desouki/AFP/Getty Images Egypt will start shipping locally-made Covid-19 vaccines to other African nations in the next month and a half, Health Minister Hala Zayed said Thursday. Addressing reporters in the capital, Cairo, she didn’t give further details
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Persons vaccinated using the the Johnson and Johnson COVID-19 vaccine might need to get a booster dose so as to get 100 percent protection against severe disease according to findings from Phase III trials. The trials that were carried out by the manufacturers of the vaccine show that the single-dose
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A section of Wilson Airport in Nairobi on August 9, 2016. PHOTO | SALATON NJAU Wealthy Kenyans and private aviation firms last year sold 72 planes in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic that reduced the millionaires’ net worth and hit demand for travel. The Kenya Civil Aviation Authority (KCAA)
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