📌 February 6 -7, 2021 – 34th AU SUMMIT & AUC elections Addis Ababa, Ethiopia | THE INDEPENDENT | The African Union (AU) will from midday today host its first virtual summit in Addis Ababa at which DRC’s Felix Antoine Tshisekedi will take over as chairperson, and elections of the AU Commission …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Forty five Ugandan start-ups will each get a budget boost of over sh140million to enable them refine and complete their innovations. The 45 were picked by the selectors – The National ICT Initiatives Support Program (NIISP) – as having the best chance of hitting …
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✳ Business activity declines in January – first time in seven months in Uganda ✳ New orders and employment fall ✳ Companies still optimistic regarding 12 months outlook Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Business conditions deteriorated for the first time in seven months for the Ugandan private sector in …
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COVAX Starts Shipping COVID-19 Vaccines to Africa This Month Kampala, Uganda | FLAVIA NASSAKA | Uganda will be one of the beneficiaries of a COVAX initiative that will deliver lower cost COVID-19 vaccines to African countries this month. Uganda will purchase her share of 3.5million vaccines at $7. President Yoweri …
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📌 BACK TO SCHOOL PLAN ✳️ Already at school P7, S4 & S6 ✳️ March 1 – P6, S3 & S5 resume studies ✳️ April – S1,S2,P1,P2,P3,P4,P5 staggered back ✳️ July – School year 2020 ends 📌 UNEB schedule ✳️ PLE March 30th & 31 ✳️ UCE exams March 1 …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Musician Mathias Walukagga has been declared the winner in the race for the Kyengera Town council LCIII Chairperson. Walukagga who contested on a NUP ticket polled 17133 votes followed by Geoffrey Ssebagala of the NRM party with 5,882 votes. Adrian Sseryazi an independent scored …
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COMMENT | Samson Tinka | One area that most stakeholders in Uganda’s elections look forward to, is security during an elections cycle. Voting day is looked at as the most critical day and security deployment and operations are visible and under scanning by the population and observers. And so it was …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Born Again Pastors have congratulated President Yoweri Museveni for having won what they called the most peaceful election in Uganda’s history. The Electoral Commission last month declared Museveni as having won the January 2021 elections with 58.38 per cent against his closest rival, Kyagulanyi Sentamu …
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Johannesburg, South Africa | THE INDEPENDENT | MTV Base has postponed the 2021 MTV Africa Music Awards that were set to be held on February 20th 2021, in Uganda. ” MTV Base is postponing the 2021 MTV Africa Music Awards. We will keep fans updated as we have more news,” …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Former National Unity Platform-NUP Presidential Candidate Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu on Thursday held a meeting with the European Union (EU) delegation. The team was led by the EU head of Delegation in Uganda Attilio Pacifici along with ambassadors representing nine european countries in Uganda. The NUP …
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