The Ministry of Health is investigating three cases of adverse immunization reactions following the recent Measles/Rubella immunization campaign. The cases, all from the same family, were immunized at a community vaccination post located in Kalagi. But one of them passed away yesterday at the pediatric unit in Mulago National Referral
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A Government of Uganda team led by Hon. Irene Muloni, Minister of Energy and Mineral Development and Albertine Graben Refinery Consortium (AGRC) leadership led by Rajakumari Jandhyala President and CEO of YAATRA Ventures jointly presented the East Africa Community sanctioned Refinery located in Hoima during the recently concluded Africa Investment
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Even with the 5G era already upon us, investment in 4G/LTE networks is still vitally important for operators in sub-Saharan Africa and must remain a core focus of network construction for the immediate future. This is according to David Chen, Vice-President, Huawei Southern Africa. "Currently, the mobile broadband penetration rate
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Safaricom and Huawei have jointly received the prestigious Most Innovative Service “the Business of Tomorrow” award at AfricaCom 2019 in Cape Town. This Award recognizes the two companies for offering the new revolutionary Mobile Money Overdraft service, known as “Fuliza”. This service enables users with insufficient funds in their M-PESA
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Although it may appear that much of the exploration activity in Africa is driven by smaller independents, the supermajors still have a significant role to play. In recognition of the importance of the market these supermajors were all well represented by senior executives at this year’s Africa Oil Week (Africa-OilWeek.com).
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Uganda's speaker of Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga has expressed her shock at news that 85% of the country's government health facilities lack latrines. Kadaga was speaking at the Uganda Parliamentary Symposium on Water, Sanitation and Hygiene where the shocking statistics were unveiled. "I've been shocked and saddened to learn that 85%
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Following the successful completion of their 35th Annual Conference, the members of the African Union for Housing Finance together agreed on a Cape Town Declaration on Housing Finance, at their Annual General Meeting on 6 November 2019. The 35 active AUHF members expressed their commitment to realising housing affordability across
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Liquid Telecom, a leading pan-African telecoms group,is workingwith Microsoft to launch new enterprise cloud services - designed to improve business collaboration, increase productivity and drive business growthin Africa. Leveraging Liquid Telecom’s low latency, high capacity, resilient infrastructure, these new services extend Liquid Telecom’s position as a connectivity partner for Microsoft
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Uganda Communications Commission (UCC), in collaboration with owners of underground communications infrastructure, has established the Underground Communication Infrastructure Information Exchange Platform (UCIIXP) (https://www.ucc.co.ug/uccinfrastructure/) to enhance the resilience and quality of telecommunications networks and services in Uganda. In a statement issued by UCC Executiveb Director, Godfrey Mutabazi (pictured), the platform serves to minimise accidental destruction
Read MoreNexign, (a part of ICS Holding), a leading Business Support System (BSS) and Internet of Things (IoT) solutions provider, announced today that implementation of Nexign Converged BSS and Nexign Network Monetisation Suite enabled Chinguitel to significantly improve subscriber services and, as a result, boost revenue by 10% year-on-year. Chinguitel is
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