Tanzania's President John Magufuli has been condemned for comments that girls who give birth should not be allowed to return to school. An online petition has been set up and a pan-African women's organisation is mobilising to get the president to apologise and reverse his comments. Mr Magufuli warned schoolgirls
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The Uganda Refugee summit fell short of its US$2billion collection target, with only US$352.6m (Shs1.26 trillion) on Friday. The two-day summit started on Thursday and Uganda had hoped to collect US$2bn (approximately Shs7trillio) to cater for the increasing refugees for the coming four years. But the Uganda Government says it
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Telecommunications giant, MTN Uganda on Friday pledged Shs1bn towards the well-being refugees in Uganda. Speaking at the Solidarity Summit on Refugees hosted by Uganda at Munyonyo Resort Hotel, the company CEO Wim Vanhelleputte said the Shs1bn will go towards the immunization of children in Uganda's refugee camps. [caption id="attachment_2066" align="alignnone"
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Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) will blossom once agency banking takes root in Uganda, Equity Bank Uganda Executive Director, Anthony Kituuka has said. He revealed this while addressing members of over 40 Investment Clubs at a Cocktail event held on Thursday at the Protea Hotel, Kampala. The event was aimed
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Ugandan Members of Parliament (MPs) have started receiving the Shs100m balance for their Shs200m cars each, Business Focus reveals. The Speaker of Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga confirmed the news on Thursday during a plenary sitting. Speaking metaphorically, Kadaga informed MPs that projections at the national weather station had confirmed that “tomorrow
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Shocking details have emerged of why Nile Basin heads of state summit hosted by President Museveni ended on Thursday with no clear deal on how the countries are to share the waters of River Nile. We have learnt from our sources at State House that a new Egyptian proposal could have
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Four Arab states have sent Qatar a list of 13 demands it must meet if it wants them to lift their sanctions. Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain are asking the Gulf state to shut down its broadcaster, Al Jazeera. They are also asking Qatar to reduce
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Addressing poverty, which is a common enemy of humankind, and achieving sustainable development are the common agenda of China and Africa, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi has said. Wang made the remarks on Wednesday during a joint press conference with the Chairperson of the African Union Commission, Moussa Faki Mahamat,
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Facebook is launching a UK initiative to train and fund local organisations to combat extremism and hate speech. It comes a week after the social network announced steps of its own to remove terrorist-related content from its site. The UK Online Civil Courage Initiative's initial partners include Imams Online and
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Total Uganda, one of the leading integrated oil and gas company, has donated computers and Job Access with Speech (JAWS) software to the Uganda National Association of the Blind (UNAB). The JAWS Software which allows blind and visually impaired users to read the screen either with a text-to-speech output or
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