By AFP Stock markets plunged around Asia on Monday, as panic selling set in with traders fretting over the economic impact of the new coronavirus and digesting a free-fall in the oil price. By mid-morning, the benchmark Nikkei 225 index had dropped 5.10 per cent or 1,058.06 points to 19,691.69,
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Shocking details have emerged of why Charles Odongtho quit as talk-show host of the popular NBS Frontline show. Highly credible sources in the corridors of the Kamwokya based TV station have intimated to us that reports of Odongtho's departure are true and there are various reasons related to his exit.
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The exodus of employees at NBS TV seems to have no end in sight with the reported resignation of Charles Odongtho. Charles has been host of political talk-show, 'NBS Frontline.' However, he has not featured on the show for the past two weeks raising speculation about what could have happened.
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Sudan's prime minister has survived an assassination attempt after his convoy was attacked in the capital, Khartoum. "An explosion hit as Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok's car was driving by but thank God no-one was hurt," Ali Bakhit, in the PM's office, told AFP. Mr Hamdok was appointed to head Sudan's
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A new GSMA study launched today shows that despite progress, the gender gap in mobile internet usage remains substantial, with over 300 million fewer women than men accessing the internet from a mobile device in low- and middle-income countries. Affordability remains the critical barrier to mobile ownership, while lower awareness,
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President Yoweri Museveni has said women empowerment will solve domestic violence and abuse of women in marriages. The President made the remarks on Sunday while presiding over the International women`s Day celebrations at Malukhu Administration Grounds, Mbale District. “In my view, the major enabler to women empowerment is through economic
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The 60-year-old tourist died after refusing to be transferred to an isolation ward A German tourist who was being treated for coronavirus in Egypt is the first fatality to be recorded in Africa because of the outbreak, BBC reports. The 60-year-old had arrived in Egypt a week ago and complained
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Uganda's Health Minister, Dr Jane Ruth Aceng has dismissed rumors that there are plans to release people suspected of having the now dreaded COVID-19 into the public. Aceng made the remarks on Sunday during a tour of Entebbe International Airport where she spent quite some time assessing the situation. "This
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An air strike in Somalia has killed a senior commander of militant Islamist group al-Shabab, state radio reports. The US issued a reward of $5m (£3,8m) in 2008 for information on the whereabouts of Bashir Mohamed Qorgab. The US carries out frequent air strikes in Somalia to target militants. It
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President Yoweri Museveni has today opened the Bukona agro-processors sugar factory and distillery at Lapem village, Coo room Parish, Koch Goma in Nwoya district, established by Indian proprietor and Managing Director, Mr. Praviin Krekal. The President also launched the Green fuel Uganda project established by the factory, which produces energy
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