Posting Title: DIRECTOR, SUB-REGIONAL OFFICE FOR NORTH AFRICA Job Code Title: CHIEF OF SERVICE, ECONOMIC AFFAIRS Department/Office: ECONOMIC COMMISSION FOR AFRICA Duty Station: RABAT Posting Period: 24 June 2016 – 22 August 2016 Job Opening Number: 62779 Staffing Exercise N/A APPLY HERE (CLICK) Share on: WhatsApp
Read More »VIDEO: Tumwebaze lashes out at KCCA critics
NBS: The outgoing minister for the presidency and Kampala Frank Tumwebaze has lashed out at those still fermenting wrangles within KCCA and those accusing him of furthering strife between the Lord Mayor EriasLukwago and the KCCA Executive Director Jennifer Musisi. Share on: WhatsApp
Read More »Emotions as Ex Ministers Hand Over
NBS: For many that never imagined what life ex ministers and government officials go through when they are out of favor, outgoing minister of state in charge of general duties Tarsis Kabwegere and Vincent Nyanzi dropped a bomb shell today, giving a picture of what life awaits ex ministers. With …
Read More »President Museveni Promises to Revive Uganda Airlines
NBS: By end 2013, reports suggested that government was planning to revive Uganda Airlines. It remained speculative until government confirmed the reports, although without a concrete plan on how this would be done. It now seems that president Museveni wants focus put to this in his latest term. While addressing …
Read More »Iryn Namubiru auctions her shoes for charity
Ugandan singer Iryn Namubiru will Sunday June 26 auction off her own collection shoes as she raises funds for her NGO, Gather For Children. “If you’ve ever liked my Parisian fashion, come ready to bid. Take home a pair of my shoes and put shoes on a child in Mityana,” …
Read More »Five top trends at Paris men’s fashion week
Paris, France | AFP | With Paris men’s fashion week coming to a climax over the weekend, we pick out five of the main trends so far on the spring-summer catwalks: Gorilla sleeves They may give their wearer something of the look of Lurch from “The Addams Family”, but nothing …
Read More »Uganda Cranes draw Egypt, Ghana in World Cup qualifiers
Group A :Libya, Guinea, DR Congo, Tunisia Group B: Zambia, Cameroon, Nigeria, Algeria Group C: Gabon, Morocco, Mali, Ivory Coast Group D: Burkina Faso, South Africa, Cape Verde, Senegal Group E: Uganda, Congo, Egypt, Ghana Matchdays 1: Oct 3-11 2016 2: Nov 7-15 2016 3/4: Aug 28-Sept 5 2017 5: …
Read More »Museveni sets 2016-2021 agenda, “orders” cabinet to work
President Yoweri Museveni has set a “business unusual” tone for his new cabinet as he laid out plans on Thursday to ensure Uganda gets to Middle-Income Status Country by 2020. Museveni’s speech at cabinet’s first meeting was titled “strategic objectives and guidelines for the 2016-2021 term” and outlined radical measures …
Read More »Trump hails Brexit vote on visit to Scotland
Turnberry, United Kingdom | AFP | Donald Trump hailed Britain’s vote to leave the EU as “fantastic” shortly after arriving in Scotland on Friday for his first international trip since becoming the presumptive Republican presidential nominee. “I think it’s a great thing. I think it’s a fantastic thing,” he told …
Read More »UPDF: Uganda to be out of Somalia ‘by 2017’
Kampala, Uganda | AFP | Uganda, the largest contributor to an African Union mission fighting jihadists in Somalia, will pull out its troops from next year, the head of the military said Thursday. Uganda was the first country to send soldiers to Somalia, spearheading the African Union Mission in Somalia …
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