AfDB shows innovative financing tools it should focus on for green growth cash Kampala, Uganda | RONALD MUSOKE | The Ugandan Government needs to integrate innovative financing tools; including green bonds, carbon markets, debt-for-nature swaps and blended financing if it is to start attracting more private resources urgently needed in Uganda’s …
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We are not interested in selling raw material, say delegates Cape Town, South Africa | THE INDEPENDENT | A high-level panel at Critical Minerals Africa Summit 2023 has identified key factors shaping the future critical minerals market and how Africa can position itself as a global hub. The Critical Minerals Africa …
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They handed to the Jewish people land they confiscated from Palestinians and violently repressed their nationalism COMMENT | SAURAV SARKAR | Israeli flags are flying over all government buildings in the United Kingdom currently, but this isn’t the first time the former imperial hegemon has put its weight behind Zionism. In …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | On Oct.17, Chinese tech giant Huawei partnered with the Ministry of ICT and National Guidance, to host the 2nd annual ICT Job Fair at Kololo Ceremonial Grounds. The National ICT Job Fair looks at addressing the youth unemployment question in Uganda through the ICT sector. …
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The choice isn’t between Hamas and Israeli hardliners because these are two sides of the same coin COMMENT | SLAVOJ ZIZEK | The barbarism that Hamas has unleashed on Israel should be condemned unconditionally, with no “ifs” or “buts.” The massacres, rapes, and abductions of civilians from villages, kibbutzim, and a …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The High Court in Kampala delivered a stern judgment, sentencing Copriyan Kasolo, the orchestrator of the kidnapping and murder of social worker Maria Nagirinya and her driver Ronald Kitayimbwa, to life imprisonment. His co-conspirator, Johnson Lubega, known as Manomano, received a similar life sentence for …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Commandant Military Police, Brigadier General William Bainomugisha appreciated the Uganda Prisons Academy for training soldiers of Military Police in Prisoners Handling. Brig Gen Bainomugisha was Tuesday speaking at the Uganda Prisons Headquarters, Luzira during the pass out of 184 Military Police soldiers who were …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The First Deputy Prime Minister of Uganda and Minister for East African Community Affairs Rebecca Kadaga on Thursday, launched the 5th edition of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) run in 2023. The run whose proceeds will be dedicated to the installation of a Solar Power …
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African governments say delay in enforcing the MLC hampers their revenue collection targets Kampala, Uganda | RONALD MUSOKE | Following the recent publication of an international treaty that seeks to make global tech giants and other large multinational corporations pay more tax where they do business, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Two senior officials with the Uganda Railways Corporation were arraigned before the Anti-Corruption Court and charged with abuse of office. The two including Tom Kimera, the senior procurement officer and Maliza Mukembo Tibewolwa, the senior human resource and administration officer were arraigned before the Anti-Corruption …
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