Stanbic Bank has just held its annual financial market event that brings together its clients and investors to share views on trends and outlook on financial markets, foreign exchange and interest rates. The media had an interaction with the Head of Trading at Stanbic Bank Ronald Muyanja and he shares …
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The new appointment comes at the time the drug maker’s share price has fallen below the IPO price Kampala, Uganda | ISAAC KHISA | Cipla Quality Chemicals Ltd, the producer of human drugs including anti-malarial and anti-retroviral is now set to receive a new managing director, Ajay Kumar Pal to …
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Company to focus on investing in technology and digital solutions to enhance customer experience Kampala, Uganda | ISAAC KHISA | Stanbic Uganda Holdings Limited (SHUL) has demonstrated business resilience, weathering effects of the coronavirus pandemic to post an impressive 21.5% growth in profit after tax to Shs154.9bn for the first …
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And how does the immune system respond? Sunit K. Singh; Professor of Molecular Immunology and Virology, Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, explains: Over a year into the pandemic, questions around immune responses after COVID continue to confound. One question many people are asking is whether the immunity you …
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The conflagration between well-armed factions inside of Ethiopia could force Addis Ababa to abandon its role of regional anchor state | THE INDEPENDENT | For the judicious observer of Ethiopia’s ethnic politics, there have been signs of ominous tensions between Tigray and the central government since Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy …
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What Ugandan leader hopes to achieve by backing the Kenya 2022 frontrunner Kampala, Uganda | IAN KATUSIIME | The Kenyan government may have blocked the deputy president William Ruto from travelling to meet Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni on Aug. 2 but insiders say that the bond between the two politicians …
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Why did Commander-in-Chief keep many others in, who want out? Kampala, Uganda | IAN KATUSIIME | The recent retirement of 14 UPDF Generals; Ivan Koreta, Pecos Kutesa, Jim Owoyesigire, Robert Rusoke, Fred Mugisha and nine others follows a pattern of careful selection. Some Generals who have clamoured for retirement from …
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THE LAST WORD | ANDREW M. MWENDA | Since the NRM government fully embraced neoliberal reforms in 1992, Uganda has witnessed the growth to dominance of multinational capital in our economy and with that the equal decline to near-insignificance of local/national/domestic/indigenous capital. But this has only been successful because the …
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Virologists say it’s only way out as disease won’t go away soon Kampala, Uganda |THE INDEPENDENT | On July 30, Uganda received 286, 080 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine from Norway. On July 31 another 300,000 doses, of the Sinovac vaccines, arrived from China. Earlier Uganda had received 1,139,000 doses …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | These are the top stories in this week’s THE INDEPENDENT. COVER STORY ‘We must learn to live with COVID’: Virologists say it’s only way out as disease won’t go away soon THE LAST WORD Uganda’s self-destructive impulses: How the ethnic divisions in our country drive …
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