Equity Group has tapped long-serving manager Mary Wangari Wamae as its new group executive director overseeing the business' subsidiaries. Ms Wamae, who has been Equity’s Company Secretary and Director for Strategy and Legal Services, becomes the senior-most woman executive at the bank and next in hierarchy to Group Chief Executive
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Speaker Rebecca Kadaga has reaffirmed government’s commitment to the Rome Statute that established the International Criminal Court. Uganda has had run-ins with the Hague-based Court, with President Yoweri Museveni publicly taking exception with the Court over its indictment of a sitting Heads of State. Kadaga’s remarks in the Netherlands, at
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Passenger air travel between Ethiopia and Eritrea has resumed today after being halted by 20 years of hostility between the countries. Flights will again link the two capital cities, Addis Ababa and Asmara. It's the latest in a series of steps aimed at normalising relations, just over a week after
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Victoria University will begin offering in-depth research oriented value addition to the hospitality and leisure industry in East Africa with the signing of a memorandum of understanding with the hotel and hospitality giant, Speke Group of Hotels. The MOU signing event took place Tuesday evening at Speke Apartments and was
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Uganda has emerged the world’s 26th best travel destination 2018, according to one of the world's largest online travel websites. Flight Network ranked 50 of the World's Best Travel Journeys in 2018 with the help of 515 of the industry's leading travel professionals. Uganda came in at number 26 out of 2500 journeys evaluated. The
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Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta has revoked his appointment of multi-millionaire businessman Chris Kirubi as the Non-Executive Chairperson of the Brand Kenya board, Forbes reports. Brand Kenya, is a state agency mandated to coordinate marketing initiatives for the country through distinguishing Kenyan products, services and concepts. In a Gazette notice dated
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Minister of State for Higher Education, Dr. John Chrysostom Muyingo Tuesday explained to Parliament why Makerere University is increasing fees for its undergraduate programmes. “The University Council took a decision to raise fees of undergraduate programmes, in order to meet the challenges of the deteriorating quality of service delivery at
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Keith Muhakanizi, the Secretary to the Treasury, who doubles as the Permanent Secretary at Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development was Tuesday quizzed by Members of Parliament on why he recommended the reappointment of Central Government Accounting Officers he had earlier blacklisted over misuse of public funds. Lawmakers on
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Adopting a resolution by a vote of 9 in favour and none against, with 6 abstentions, the 15-member body obliged all UN Member States to immediately to take necessary measures regarding the arms embargo, that will remain in effect until 31 May next year. Côte d’Ivoire, France, Kuwait, Netherlands, Peru,
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South Sudan’s main armed opposition group Saturday slammed false press reports published in Juba about alleged by SPLM-Io generals plan dubbed " Unknown gunmen" to attack and loot civilians and commercial convoys across the country. "This is completely an unfounded allegations meant to tarnish the image of the SPLA IO
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