Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda’s biggest paint company Sadolin has opened its latest color center along Main Street, Gulu Municipality in a bid to expand market reach and consolidate its position in the Ugandan market. The establishment, Sadolin’s sixth in the country will offer experiential shopping for high end …
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Nairobi, Kenya | AFP | South Sudan will vaccinate key health workers against Ebola close to the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo, which faces a new epidemic, the World Health Organization said Monday. The ministry of health’s vaccination campaign, with cooperation from the WHO, will target healthcare and …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Speaker of Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga, has called upon Uganda Girl Guides Association to design strategies to attract more girls to join the movement. “I am a bit disappointed that we have 200,000 girl guides from a population of close to 40 million people. We …
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Casablanca, Morocco | THE INDEPENDENT | Two Ugandan start-ups Ugabus and Sukuma Dance Fitness will get a $175,000 boost from a $1million prize at the 4th edition of the African Entrepreneurship Award Program. The BMCE Bank of Africa Group announced 13 winners at the awards ceremony held on Monday, December 10, 2018 …
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Kampala, Uganda | JULIUS BUSINGE | Fodor’s Travel, the internationally-recognized guidebook publisher and travel authority has featured Uganda on its annual Go List as one of the 52 destinations to visit in 2019, according to a press statement issued by Uganda Tourism Board on Dec.10. The Fodor’s website is published out …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Lt.Col Edith Nakalema will be the new face of Uganda’s anti-corruption drive. President Yoweri Museveni on Monday confirmed she will head a new unit in his office dedicated to fighting corruption. Museveni introduced Lt.Col Nakalema at Kololo where Uganda celebrated this year’s world anti-corruption day …
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Kampala, Uganda | JULIUS BUSINGE | Prime Minister Ruhakana Rugunda is optimistic that the synergy between the tourism and coffee sub-sectors will be instrumental to getting Uganda’s economy to middle income status. Rugunda was speaking as Chief Guest at the first annual Coffee and Tourism Symposium and Exposition at Golden Tulip …
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Lagos, Nigeria | JAMES MURUA | Prof Tanure Ojaide and Harriet Anena are the joint winners of the Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature 2018. The announcement was made at a ceremony in Lagos, Nigeria on Sunday, December 9, 2018. The Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature, worth Sh37million ($10,000), is awarded …
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Kampala, Uganda | JULIUS BUSINGE | There is an urgent need to prioritise the revisions on the proposed minimum wage bill to protect the interests of employees and boost their morale at work according to Eunice Musiime, the executive director for Akina Mama wa Afrika, a feminist-Pan-African leadership development organization. Musiime …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Inspector General of Government (IGG), Justice Irene Mulyagonja, is seeking the intervention of President Museveni to increase funding to the institution. Justice Mulyagonja attributed delays to investigate corruption cases to staff shortage and limited funding. Addressing journalists on Friday, she observed that …
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