STATEMENT: Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social development on the Occasion to Mark the International Labour Day, 2021 LABOUR DAY 2021 🇺🇬 | The Covid-19 pandemic has had profound impact on economies around the world. Labour Markets have been severely impacted as a result of the containment measures. Not …
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LABOUR DAY 2021 🇺🇬 | As Uganda celebrates the International Labour Day on 1st May, the Uganda Registration Services Bureau (URSB) celebrates the Workers of Uganda for being the champions of our nation’s national development. At the national level, the theme earmarked for the International Labour day celebrations falls within …
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LABOUR DAY 2021 🇺🇬 | BY DAVID RUPINY | Shillat Nambooze Kauma is a young graduate who, instead of looking for a job, opted to plunge right into the realm of entrepreneurship. Two years ago, Shillat and her friend set up Puristry, a firm that makes high-end cosmetics from shea butter. The …
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Why African countries need reliable local data on sugary drinks tax revenue, VAT, corporate tax and customs duty revenue COMMENT | AGNES ERZSE AND KAREN HOFMAN | Professor and Programme Director, SA MRC Centre for Health Economics and Decision Science – PRICELESS SA (Priority Cost Effective Lessons in Systems Strengthening …
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Can the FUFA president get a third term after Uganda Cranes fallout over unpaid allowances, disrespect? COMMENT | IAN KATUSIIME | The curse that haunts presidents seeking a third term in Uganda seems to have come for Moses Magogo, the president of Federation of Uganda Football Associations (FUFA). Magogo, as …
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He can intervene in controversy dam is causing between Egypt and some Nile river riparian countries COMMENT | SIMON KIMOYI | Faced with a current water scarcity and a Republic of Ethiopia determined to go ahead with its second filling of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) this July, Sudan …
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Social-media platforms today are entering their teenage years: they have a history but lack maturity COMMENT | MATT LOCKE | On May 9, 1961, then-Chair of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Newton Minow delivered a transformative speech to the National Association of Broadcasters in Washington, DC. Now known as …
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It is one of the important factors behind employees increased productivity despite COVID restrictions COMMENT | EDOARDO CAMPANELLA | The COVID-19 pandemic has damaged the stock of physical and human capital. Firms have postponed or canceled investment projects, and laid-off or furloughed workers’ skills have deteriorated. The crisis, however, has …
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The East Africa Crude Oil Pipeline is a project with multiple dire social, economic and environmental impacts COMMENT | VANESSA NAKATE AND LANDRY NINTERETSE | Dear Presidents Yoweri Museveni of Uganda and Suluhu Hassan of Tanzania, building the world’s longest heated crude oil pipeline in the midst of a climate …
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Why the climate crisis which is putting human civilisation itself at risk must remain front-page news COMMENT | JULES KORTENHORST | In addressing climate change, “winning” slowly is the same as losing. We have only one chance to fix this problem before it becomes an existential threat, and the window …
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