✳ Junior Women: 6km ✳ Junior Men: 8km ✳ Senior Women: 10km ✳ Senior Men: 10km Tororo, Uganda | BY LOUIS JADWONG & URN | The Uganda Athletics Federation has decided that only athletes who will compete in today’s National Cross Country race in Tororo will be given a ticket to the …
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Tororo, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT & URN | It does not come bigger than this anywhere else in the athletics world. The world’s top two cross country runners will battle for supremacy over 10km when, for the second time in a year, the eastern Ugandan town of Tororo hosts the …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Electricity distributor, Umeme’s contract will run its full course but will not be renewed by government in 2025. Fears that the Umeme concession would be terminated before 2025 have therefore been put to rest. Government is going ahead with plans to form its own company to …
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Cristiano Ronaldo’s replacement netted the first World Cup knockout treble since Italia 90 🌟 #FIFAWorldCup 2022 ✳ RESULTS ⚽ Morocco 0 Spain 0 (3-0 penalties) ⚽ Portugal 6 Switzerland 1 Doha, Qatar | FIFA.COM | Goncalo Ramos woke up Tuesday morning relatively unknown outside his home country. The 21-year-old rested his head on his pillow …
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The works entail the immediate rehabilitation of 265 km of MGR tracks between Malaba and Mukono, including the line to Jinja Pier and Port Bell on Lake Victoria Abidjan, Ivory Coast | THE INDEPENDENT | The African Development Bank Group is providing $301 million to overhaul the Kampala-Malaba Meter Gauge …
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Head of Global Communications says UNHCR does not even have sufficient funds to provide enough soap | THE INDEPENDENT | The UN Refugee Agency, UNHCR, is calling for urgent support and responsibility-sharing from the international community to preserve and reinforce Uganda’s model refugee policy of social inclusion and integration, amid …
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How the Nairobi fly is inflicting pain in the Rwenzori Mountains SPECIAL FEATURE | RONALD MUSOKE | Bwambale Sibaminya, 49, a peasant farmer from Nyabugesera cell, Ntandi Town Council, in the western Uganda district of Bundibugyo was determined to join the grasshopper or Nsenene harvesting business to make some extra income …
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Smaller African countries are punching beyond their weight to diversify their economies from agricultural dependence, a new report shows. Nairobi, Kenya | BIRD AGENCY | A new report shows that value-add factories and public-private partnership are helping small African countries industrialize much faster than their larger peers. The recently …
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The facts and the controversy Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A fragile state is not a failed state. It is not one on the brink of conflict, collapse or failure. No. A fragile state is one that is vulnerable. A fragile a state is one that is vulnerable to conflict, …
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🌟 #FIFAWorldCup 2022 ✳ RESULTS ⚽ Ghana 0 Uruguay 2 ⚽ South Korea 2 Portugal 1 ⚽ Cameroon 1 Brazil 0 ⚽ Serbia 2 Switzerland 3 ✳ LAST 16 ⚽ Match 49 – Saturday, 3 December Netherlands-USA ⚽ Match 50 – Saturday, 3 December Argentina-Australia ⚽ Match 51 – Sunday, 4 December England-Senegal ⚽ Match 52 – Sunday, 4 December …
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