Author Guillaume Blanc debunks a colonial myth According to Guillaume Blanc, author of The Invention of Green Colonialism, one of these pitfalls is the idea of an “African Eden” that casts an entire continent as the site of pristine wilderness instead of a region populated and shaped by humans for …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | South African company Tiger Brands has recalled its Purity Essentials Baby Powder products after finding levels of asbestos, a chemical whose exposure has been linked to various cancers in test samples. According to a warning notice written by Meti Demissie Disasa, the Registrar COMESA Competition Commission, …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The International Crimes Division of the High Court in Kampala has dismissed an application in which the lawyers representing Kawempe North Member of Parliament Muhammad Ssegirinya and his Makindye West counterpart Allan Ssewanyana, wanted to be part of the application seeking to protect prosecution witnesses. The …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The National Building Review Board-NBRB has said that using steel-timber-concrete method to construct slabs is unsafe since there are no clear standards for the timber being used. The clarification follows the 19th September 2022 ban by the Minister for Works and Transport Gen. Katumba Wamala on …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The World Health Organization-WHO has urged health workers in Uganda not to consider using Ebola therapeutics used to treat patients in the neighboring DR Congo, saying these will not be effective. Speaking at an Ebola Infection Prevention and Control-IPC meeting for health workers held on Monday, …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The State Minister for Finance in charge of General Duties, Henry Musasizi has raised concerns over the country’s high fiscal deficit saying it’s worrying. Parliament in May this year passed a budget of 48.1 trillion shillings for the financial year 2022/23. However, out of the total …
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Mbarara, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Mbarara police are holding a Uganda Peoples Defence Force-UPDF soldier accused of killing a boda boda rider. The suspect is Private Allan Turyasima, 25, a UPDF soldier attached to the 1st Battalion Commando Brigade in Fort Portal. The suspect was arrested on Monday morning from Ntungamo …
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Vanishing mineral exports dent economic recovery Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda’s non-formal export sector has maintained a downward trajectory year-on-year, according to the latest July 2022 figures from Bank of Uganda (BoU). The effect has been a dent on the otherwise emerging signs of recovery in exports buoyed …
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COMMENT | Lydia Mirembe | There was a time when the retirement benefits sector in Uganda was defined by gross mismanagement, lack of transparency and accountability, outright corruption and brazen embezzlement of savers’ money. The establishment of a Sector Regulator since 2011, has provided a foundation for continued improvement in scheme …
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Budapest, Hungary | Xinhua | The Western countries’ sanctions against Russia have turned the “local” conflict between Russia and Ukraine into a “global economic war,” Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Monday. An increasing number of countries across the world are becoming “victim” of the conflict in Ukraine, Orban said …
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