Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | These are the top stories in this week’s THE INDEPENDENT. COVER STORY Indigenous minorities test Uganda’s record: Upcoming UN appraisal raises questions on identity and provision of services THE LAST WORD The moral power of whataboutism: Lessons from ordinary people on Kampala streets regarding the …
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MoTIV will use $50,000 prize money to kick-start a creative fund to unlock increased potential in sector and support creatives Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | MoTIV, East Africa’s largest makerspace headquartered in Kampala, Uganda has won the UNESCO–Bangladesh Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman International Prize for the creative economy. Established …
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🔴 TODAY 🇺🇬 Uganda 1 Kenya 🇰🇪 1 🇷🇼 Rwanda 0 Mali 🇲🇱 3 ✳ Group E Mali 🇲🇱 13pts Uganda 🇺🇬 9pts Kenya 🇰🇪 3pts Rwanda 🇷🇼 1pt ***** Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT & URN | Kenya’s Harambee Stars have held Uganda Cranes to a one-all draw in a FIFA Qatar …
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Kampala Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Chipper Cash has today launched a product that will enable Ugandans invest in publicly traded global companies like Amazon, Tesla or Facebook. The launch of the Chipper’s Global Stocks Investing product makes it the first company to offer fractional stock investing in Uganda. The African fintech …
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⚽ TODAY: 🇺🇬 Uganda vs Kenya 🇰🇪 4PM ⚽ SUNDAY: 🇲🇱 Mali vs Uganda 🇺🇬 Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda Cranes coach Milutin ‘Micho’ Sredojevic has predicted two tough games as his boys wind their Group E 2022 FIFA Qatar World Cup qualifiers with an East African derby against …
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Hoima, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Ugandan fishermen on Lake Albert are fleeing to the Democratic Republic of Congo-DRC to carry out fishing following intensified operations and destruction of their illegal fishing gear by the Fisheries Protection Unit-FPU. The operation is targeting those with undersized boats, fishing nets, hooks and monofilament …
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COMMENT | THE INDEPENDENT | For the last 10 days, over 20,000 delegates from 200 countries have been at the Glasgow Climate Conference in Scotland, discussing ways to keep climate change under control. This global discourse around climate change points towards one fact; we are in a climate emergency and …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Equity Bank Uganda Limited has re-affirmed its passion for sport and its ability to bring Ugandans together by partnering with the National Agricultural Research Organization (NARO) to organize an inaugural golf open this week. The Equity Bank NARO Open is set to run November 11th to …
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Ignore the misguided saboteurs, malicious propaganda, misguided business interests, and gallery politics COMMENT | FREDERICK DONGO- SHEMA | The government’s proclamation to enhance salaries of scientists in the next financial year has sparked unnecessary objection from businessmen and arts-focused groups camouflaging as moralists. Hailed by science education experts as the …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda can work with the Democratic Republic of Congo to defeat the Allied Democratic Forces-ADF rebels wrecking havoc in the expansive central African nation, President Yoweri Museveni has revealed. He was meeting a delegation from the United States of America led by Howard G. Buffet, the …
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