Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda’s financial industry is still a step away from being internationally blacklisted over safety concerns, more than three years after the alarm was sounded by the Financial Action Task Force, FATF. FATF, an intergovernmental organization that monitors the global financial industries for financial crime, examined …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Attorney General has asked the Anti Corruption Court to dismiss an application in which the former Executive Director of Uganda National Bureau of Standards David Livingstone Ebiru is seeking to halt his trial on bribery charges until investigations are completed. The prosecution alleges that …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The High Court in Kampala has blocked next week’s Forum for Democratic Change Party Extra Ordinary Delegates Conference. The Civil Division Judge Lady Justice Esta Nambayo on Friday issued the interim order blocking the conference which was supposed to be held on September 19th. A …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A forum that will advocate, empower, and promote the rights of disabled people has been launched. Speaking during the launch of the Parliamentary Forum for Persons With Disabilities Parliament on Friday, Alex Ndeezi, the Chairperson of the Forum who doubles as the Member of Parliament …
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Harare, Zimbabwe | Xinhua | Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa laid out on Thursday the agenda for his second term in office following re-election last month. During a high-level government retreat, Mnangagwa said the new government will accelerate people-centered development to achieve Zimbabwe’s “Vision 2030,” which seeks to propel the southern African country …
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Why geopolitics and not protectionism should be the worry for the future health of the world economy COMMENT | DANI RODRIK | “The era of free trade seems to be over. How will the world economy fare under protectionism?” This is one of the most common questions I hear nowadays. But …
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Why those who optimally mix what AIs and humans each can do best will be champions in the new economy COMMENT | JAMIE METZL | Everywhere we look nowadays, we find warnings that artificial-intelligence algorithms are coming for our jobs. While Goldman Sachs estimates that two-thirds of all current jobs in …
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Agago, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Agago District has received a livestock market worth 341 million Shillings financed under the local government excellence funds of the Development Initiative for Northern Uganda-DINU. Alwa Livestock Market was constructed with funds from the European Union through the United Nations Capital Development Fund-UNCDF with a …
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Securing new trade and investment opportunities will lift millions out of poverty and adapt to climate change COMMENT | GITA BRIEL & DR. JODIE KEANE | As Africa embarks on its industrialisation drive, supported by the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), the realities of climate change are becoming more visible …
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Omoro, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Minister of Local Government Raphael Magyezi on Thursday declined to commission a multi-million newly constructed market in Omoro District because it was incomplete. Magyezi had been invited along with the State Minister for Northern Uganda Rehabilitation Grace Freedom Kwiyucwyiny by Omoro district leaders to …
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The Independent Uganda: You get the Truth we Pay the Price
