Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT & AFP | With no communique shared with journalists, the second meeting to discuss the implementation of the Memorandum of Understanding signed in Angola between Uganda and Rwanda in August concluded quietly in Kampala on Friday. Uganda’s Foreign Affairs Minister Sam Kutesa and Rwanda’s Minister of State …
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Kampala, Uganda | RONALD MUSOKE | Following a series of high-level meetings with President Yoweri Museveni and local business executives, Momar Nguer who recently led a business delegation of top French executives to Uganda declared the mission a success. The 25-member delegation recently traveled to Kampala under their MEDEF …
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London, United Kingdom | AFP | Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Friday hailed a political “earthquake” in Britain after a thumping election victory which clears the way for the country to finally leave the EU next month after years of paralysing deadlock. With all but one result declared for the …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT & AFP | Rwanda’s Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Olivier Nduhungirehe will lead a high level delegation to Uganda today for a second meeting to discuss the implementation of the Memorandum of Understanding signed in Angola in August. This second meeting that aims at easing …
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Pharmaceutical firm hopes to recover in second half of the year Kampala, Uganda | ISAAC KHISA | Cipla Quality Chemicals Industries Ltd has recorded a decline in profit since it was listed on the Uganda Securities Exchange a year ago but its managers are now pinning its growth prospects on …
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US$2.4m to finance third phase of the FAO-China South-South cooperation Kampala, Uganda | RONALD MUSOKE | Loyda Twinomujuni is a successful dairy farmer from Mbarara in south-western Uganda with 200 cows. She says about 110 of these are milked and each gives about 16 litres daily. But it was not …
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Besigye, Museveni – Their 30 year fight ahead of 2021 Kampala, Uganda | IAN KATUSIIME | “Winnie, would you accept to be our candidate for President?” Col. Kizza Besigye posed that question sometime in early October 2000. His wife, Winnie Byanyima was surprised. “You as who? Who are `we?” she asked …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Tourism earnings are estimated to have grown slower in the first ten months of 2019, according to to the Central Bank. The government had planned to attract more than one million tourists this year on top of the 1.8 million people received in 2018, …
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MUHAKANIZI: Unconsumed electricity will hit Uganda’s budget hard; capacity to rise to 1200MW, yet Ugandans can only consume 600MW Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda must now reserve money to pay for generated but unconsumed power for the next five years, Secretary to the Treasury Keith Muhakanizi has said. …
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Kampala, Uganda | AFP | Twelve people have been swept to their deaths by floods in western Uganda, the Red Cross said on Saturday, as the East African country is battered by torrential rain. “We have recovered 12 bodies from the water and one person has been rushed to …
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The Independent Uganda: You get the Truth we Pay the Price
