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By Joshua Nahamya The World Bank Vice President for Africa, Hafez Ghanem has concluded a two-day visit to Uganda. This was Ghanem’s first visit to Uganda where she offered government support, including Emergency Funds for Strengthening Preparedness for Coronavirus. While in Uganda, Ghanem met with President Yoweri Museveni and discussed how best the World Bank […]
Joshua Nahamya Kampala The New World Bank Report recommends Uganda to improving trade and business Environment to create higher labor productivity jobs in a bid to address the national issue of unemployment most especially among the growing numbers of the youths in the country. This was revealed on Tuesday during the launch of the […]
President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni and his Rwandan counterpart , Paul Kagame are today Sunday expected to discuss in Luanda, the Angolan capital in a 2nd attempt at talks to resolve a border dispute between Uganda and Rwanda. To be assessed in Angola, is the August 2019 peace pact signed by the two in the same […]
The Kampala City Trader’s Association –KACITA has advised the business community travelling to China to halt their travels until the Coronavirus situation in China is contained Issah Ssekito, the KACITA spokesperson on Tuesday Jan 28,2020 revealed that this situation is very deadly if people don’t be vigilant and follow authorities advice. Meanwhile, The Ministry of Health […]
NBA Basketball icon Kobe Bryant, 41,and his daughter Gianna Maria-Onore Bryant were among the 9 people who died in a helicopter crash in Calabasas, California, on Sunday Jan 26,2020. Calabasas is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States, located in the hills west of the San Fernando Valley and in the northwest Santa Monica […]
Ugandan climate activist Vanessa Nakate has accused the western media of racism after she was cropped out of a photograph taken with her white peers in Davos,a town in the Swiss Alps, within the canton of Graubünden, a popular ski resort with a conference center that hosts the annual World Economic Forum. In an emotional […]
United Nation (UN) Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) has called for international intervention/aid to “avert any threats to food security, livelihoods, malnutrition”. It requires 10 m U.S dollars. Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia are struggling with “unprecedented” and “devastating” swarms of the food-eating locusts, the FAO has said, fearing locust numbers could grow 500 times by […]
Lawmakers seeking to remove U.S President Donald Trump (Republican Party) from office hope to hear testimony from his former National Security Adviser John Bolton as Democrats stand firm refusing any deal to allow the son of former US Vice-President Joe Biden to be called as a witness. Mr Trump is accused of abuse of power […]
West Africa – Suspected Islamist militants have killed 25 soldiers,six others wounded in an attack on an army post in west Niger near its border with Mali on Thursday. It was not immediately revealed who was responsible for the attack on the post at Chinagodrar, about 130 miles (209 km) north of the capital Niamey, […]
By APN Reporter Kabale An American tourist aged 65 was on Thursday stung to death by wasps while tracking gorillas in Bwindi Impenetrable National park. The deceased, Gloria Suemiller, a resident of Oklahoma City was stung to death by wasps at around 10:30AM while at Katonvi, Ruhija zone. The police spokesperson for Kigezi region, Elly […]