Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The country has been in a festive mood over the last three weeks, celebrating Christmas, a key holiday for Christians which is preceded by the end of the year, in the Gregorian calendar. During the time, many offices have remained closed, with slow …
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Next generation of 200,000 jobs requires more than just going beyond farms Kampala, Uganda | STEPHEN NUWAGIRA | Damascene Tuyisenge is a graduate teacher. But he had failed to get a job – until he enrolled at Kigali Employment Service Centre (KESC), a government entrepreneurship training facility in the Rwandan …
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Karuma, Isimba power raises new questions Kampala, Uganda | HAGGAI MATSIKO | On the face of it, Uganda’s sole national electricity distributor, Umeme Ltd, has a stronghold on the sector. It has seven more years on its concession, has recently posted stellar financial and operational performance, and – with workers’ …
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By Aloysious Kasoma Former Mbarara Municipality MP and wife to former opposition leader Col. Rtd Kizza Besigye, Engineer Winnie Byanyima, has been appointed Executive Director of Oxfam International. According to the Oxfam site, the former legislature was appointed after a long global search and chose Byanyima who was described as …
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