Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Government is stuck with newly created administrative units across the country. “Government is currently stuck with about 300 newly created sub-counties and 200 Town Councils over lack of money to fund their operations,” Finance Minister Matia Kasaija revealed recently. He made the remarks during …
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Arua, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Members of West Nile Cooperative Union are Demanding one trillion Shillings from the government, as compensation for the destruction and loss, alleged incurred during the 1979 -1986 insurgency. West Nile Cooperative Union started in 1969 as a British American Tobacco- BAT supported …
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Masaka, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Bukomansimbi district local government leaders have rejected a new Ambulance donated to them by the Korean government citing poor specifications. The government received a grant worth 1.2 billion Shillings from the Korea Foundation for International Healthcare-KOFIH in June this year, to put in place …
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Cairo, Egypt | AFP | Rare small protests broke out on Friday in Cairo and other Egyptian cities calling for the removal of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi but police quickly dispersed them, AFP journalists reported. Dozens of people joined night-time demonstrations around Tahrir Square — the epicentre of the 2011 …
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Washington, United States | AFP | A mysterious whistleblower, a telephone call between President Donald Trump and a foreign leader, and military aid to Ukraine. Here’s what we know about the latest political firestorm swirling around Washington: – Whistleblower – On August 12, an unknown whistleblower in the US intelligence …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda has signed a hosting agreement and a memorandum of understanding with African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) to host their East African regional office starting next month. The announcement was made after a meeting between leading officials of the bank and President Yoweri Museveni at State …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A delegation from the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank), led by the President, Prof. Benedict Oramah, visited the Bank of Uganda in Kampala today to pay a courtesy call on the Governor, Prof. Emmanuel Tumusiime-Mutebile, and to brief him about the Bank’s support to the Ugandan …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The President of the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank), Prof. Benedict Oramah, on Thursday in Kampala met with Matia Kasaija, Minister of Finance Planning and Economic Development of Uganda, for a courtesy call and to brief the minister about the Bank’s support to Uganda’s economic …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) today concludes a three-day retreat in Kampala, Uganda for the mid-term review of its Fifth Strategic Plan dubbed IMPACT 2021: Africa Transformed. Afreximbank operates on five-year strategic plans. The current strategic plan, which is the Bank’s fifth, covers the …
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New York, United States | AFP | Masses of children skipped school Friday to join a global strike against climate change that teen activist Greta Thunberg said was “only the beginning” in the fight against environmental disaster. Some four million people filled city streets around the world, organizers said, in …
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