It appears every Member of Parliament in Uganda is servicing a loan, if a report from the Parliamentarians’ Cooperative Savings and Credit Society Limited (SACCOs) is anything to go by. The SACCO, whose membership is largely comprised by lawmakers, is counting losses amounting Shs122.36m after three legislators passed on without
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The Ugandan government is set to spend Shs700bn in organizing the 2021 general elections, State Minister for Finance in charge of Planning, David Bahati has revealed. This is higher than Shs419.9bn spent on the 2016 general elections. The minister made the remarks on Thursday while appearing before Parliament’s Local Government
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Africa’s youngest billionaire was Thursday abducted by masked gunmen in Tanzania’s main city Dar es Salaam, police say. Mohammed Dewji, 43, was abducted outside a swanky hotel gym where he was going for his routine morning workout. Three people have been arrested in connection with the incident and two of
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Mike Mukula has said the youth are not yet capable of taking up the leadership mantle as there would be chaos in the country. In an exclusive interview with Citizen TV on Friday, Mukula, the National Resistance Movement (NRM) vice chairman, further claimed that President Yoweri Museveni is still the leader the country
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A landslide following heavy rains in eastern Uganda has killed more than 30 people. It is feared that the death toll could rise as a government rescue team reaches the Mount Elgon area. A river burst its banks and a torrent of mud and water swept villages away. Pictures from
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Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni is in the British Capital London for an international conference on illegal wildlife trade (IWT) organised by the United Kingdom government. The conference is a follow up of the Giants Club Conservation and Tourism Investment Forum that was hosted by President Museveni in October last year.
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The man said to be Africa's youngest billionaire has been kidnapped by masked gunmen in Tanzania's main city Dar es Salaam, police say. Mohammed Dewji, 43, was abducted outside a swanky hotel gym where he was going for his routine morning workout. Three people have been arrested in connection with
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The Belgian Embassy in Uganda has revealed events that will mark twenty years of the mission's existence in Kampala. The timetable for what has been dubbed "Belgian Week" is contained in a statement posted on the Embassy's Facebook page on Thursday. It will happen from the 15th to 21st November
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Senior presidential adviser on media Joseph Tamale Mirundi has bashed a legal notice issued against tycoon Sudhir Ruparelia's son, Rajiv Ruparelia who happens to be one of the directors at Ruparelia Group of companies by lawyers representing the embattled DFCU bank terming it as “senseless”. The lawyers are; Kalenge, Bwanika, Ssawa
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At least 50 people have been killed after a bus travelling from the Kenyan capital Nairobi to Kisumu, in the west, veered off the road, police say. Many reportedly died when the vehicle overturned. Police fear the death toll may rise, with the possibility of passengers trapped in the wreckage.
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