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BoU raised policy rate for a third straight time in a row signaling boost to interest rates | THE INDEPENDENT | Dfcu and DTB have recorded a surprise profit for the first six months of the year but the uncertainty remains ahead due to the prevailing tough economic times. Dfcu …

Twin high towers demolished in lesson to offenders | THE INDEPENDENT | The demolition of Supertech’s twin towers; Apex and Ceyane near the capital Delhi should be a lesson for all stakeholders in the real estate industry in India that accountability will be enforced if they violate building laws, according …

Last leader of the USSR was a ‘consequential but ultimately tragic figure’ | MATHEW SUSSEX | Few world leaders have cut a more consequential but ultimately tragic figure than Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, whose death at the age of 91 has been announced by Russian state media. In a way it …

20,000 graduate in first ever unified national army  Kampala, Uganda | IAN KATUSIIME | President Yoweri Museveni’s attendance of the first graduation of the Unified Forces of South Sudan cast him in the spotlight again as a mainstay in the security matrix of the East African and Great Lakes region. …

How Kapeeka Industrial Park may be signaling a fundamental change in Uganda’s policy attitude THE LAST WORD | ANDREW M. MWENDA | Last week, on a visit to Gen. Salim Saleh in Kapeeka, I decided to also visit “his” industrial park. Although I travel for fortnightly pilgrims to Kapeeka to …

  Analysts welcome move but fear bloc is expanding too fast Kampala, Uganda | RONALD MUSOKE |  Just eleven days after the Democratic Republic of Congo ratified the East African Community Treaty on July 11, the bloc’s leaders agreed to fast-track the verification of Somalia’s application to join the community. Sitting …

The artist draws inspiration from cave and Egyptian art that used the human figure as a symbol of spiritual, social and cultural expressions The human figure is a dominant symbol in Fred Kakinda’s paintings. It will usually take on different forms and meaning; depending on the subject the artist is …

  Nairobi, Kenya | THE STAR KENYA |  Azimio presidential candidate Raila Odinga and running mate Martha Karua on Wednesday met Azimio leaders from the Mt Kenya region. The meeting came as the hearing of the presidential petition they filed at the Supreme Court to overturn William Ruto’s win got underway. “Martha …

Sulfadoxine/pyrimethamine is used to prevent malaria in pregnant women and infants | THE INDEPENDENT | First African-Manufactured Medicine to Prevent Malaria in Pregnant Women and Infants Quality-Approved by World Health Organization (WHO) Universal Corporation Ltd (UCL), with support from Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV) and Unitaid has become the first …

Why Uganda’s efforts are missing the mark | HYEJIN LEE | Vitamin A deficiency is the leading cause of preventable childhood blindness. It also increases the risk of death from common childhood illnesses such as diarrhoea. Vitamin A deficiency (VAD) threatens public health especially in preschool-aged children in developing countries. …