Together with social isolation, they rare associated with an increased risk of all-cause mortality Kampala, Uganda | AGENCIES | A new study confirms an association between social isolation, loneliness, and mortality. The authors investigated how the two phenomena were linked to all-cause deaths and deaths from cardiovascular disease and breast cancer. …
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Who’s behind it and how it could be controlled Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Every now and then the trade in human organs makes national, even international, news. In March 2023, a Nigerian politician, his wife and a medical middleman were found guilty of an organ-trafficking plot after they brought …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Tsitsi Dangarembga is a Zimbabwean playwright, filmmaker and award-winning novelist who is vocal about freedom of expression and human rights. In 2020, she was convicted by a Zimbabwean court for inciting violence after carrying out a march calling for political reforms. The charge was later …
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EAC remains the biggest market for Kenya’s value-added products such as Cement, Palm oil, Coated Flat-rolled Iron, Soap, Machinery Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |Kenya’s decision to conclude negotiations for an Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with the European Union has sparked verbal fights with civil society organisations saying the deal …
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Makers of Koudijs break ground on 50,000 tonnes aquafeed plant Kampala, Uganda | AGENCIES | De Heus Animal Nutrition broke ground for a state-of-the-art dedicated aquafeed plant in Njeru, near Jinja in central Uganda. The plant will be able to produce 50,000 tonnes of fish feed per year, meeting the growing …
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Kampala, Uganda | PATRICIA AKANKWATSA | Funds locked up in Uganda’s commercial courts as a result of financial disputes have risen to Shs 8 trillion negatively impacting investments, according to the Justice and Constitutional Affairs Minister, Norbert Mao. In 2021, the funds locked up in unresolved disputes before Commercial Court Division …
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The adoption of PAPSS’s cutting-edge settlement model will streamline operations and empower businesses across Africa Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Five African multinational commercial banking groups including KCB Group, Standard Bank Group, UBA Group, Ecobank Group and Access Bank Group have signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Afreximbank’s Pan-African Payment …
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Per capita income increased to about US$930 for FY21/22, edging closer to the lower-middle-income threshold Kampala, Uganda | JULIUS BUSINGE | Uganda’s economic activity is accelerating despite commodity-price inflation, global monetary tightening, international supply-chain bottlenecks, and a local Ebola outbreak, according to the World Bank’s 21st Edition of the Uganda Economic …
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Kampala, Uganda | JULIUS BUSINGE |The Public Accountants Examinations Board (PAEB) of the Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Uganda (ICPAU) on June 26 released the results of the May 2023 examinations. The examinations were conducted from May 29 – June 2 at seven examination centres namely – Arua, Fort …
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Kampala, Uganda | RONALD MUSOKE | Even though the government has over the past couple of decades masterminded a wide-range of interventions in its fight against malaria, one of the deadliest diseases on earth, Uganda remains the third most affected country in the world according to data from the UN’s World …
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