TOP TEAM SCORES BOYS ✳ South Africa 🇿🇦 850 ✳ Uganda 🇺🇬 940 ✳ Zambia 🇿🇲 944 ✳ Zimbabwe 🇿🇼 945 FULL SCOREBOARD Kampala, Uganda | Phillip Corry | Team Uganda sealed a spot to the Toyota Golf World Cup in Japan in June by finishing runner up at …
Read More »TRAFFIC: Activists call for reintroduction of breathalyzers
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Activists are asking the Uganda Police to reintroduce enforcement measures that curb drunk-driving. Dr David Kalema, a Consultant at Safer Initiative Uganda, an entity created by the World Health Organisation to find solutions for alcohol-related harms, says the breathalyzers campaign which came to be …
Read More »Visa Everywhere Initiative opens applications in Uganda for start-ups
Visa Everywhere Initiative tasks startups with solving today’s most pressing payments and commerce challenges, with monetary prizes, global exposure, and validation from one of the world’s most trusted brands Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Visa Everywhere Initiative (VEI), a global open innovation competition that sees startups pitch their innovative solutions …
Read More »Accountants push for priority spending as Govt suspends borrowing
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Professional accountants have joined efforts to push for better public finance management practices to support economic development. This comes as the government insists that there will be no new loans contracted in the next three years starting with the financial year 2023/24 as the …
Read More »Gavi in new bid to reach unvaccinated Ugandan children
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT l The global alliance for vaccine initiative -GAVI says that about 50,000 children in Uganda have never received a single vaccine dose, and therefore remain unprotected against any killer disease. This also makes it almost impossible to eradicate some diseases from the country. For this reason, …
Read More »Salary raise for Uganda prisons scientists hangs in balance
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT l Scientists in Uganda Prisons are nursing disappointment after the Ministry of Finance, Planning, and Economic Development dashing their hopes for salary enhancement. The issue of the aggrieved scientists was raised on the floor of Parliament after they petitioned workers’ representatives in the House that they …
Read More »This bird is revered. Why is its population dwindling?
As its habitat disappears due to human encroachment on Uganda’s wetlands, the gray crowned crane has moved to farmland in search of food. That’s a problem. Lwengo, Uganda | Apophia Agiresaasi – Global Press Journal Uganda | Looking at the gray crowned crane, it’s not difficult to see why it …
Read More »Egypt, Zimbabwe, Uganda, Kenya win at ITF/14 Under tournament
Kampala, Uganda | PHILLIP CORRY | Egypt’s Ibrahim Moaz Srour and Uganda’s Abdul Latif Sendyowa were Leg 1 and 2 winners in the boys category at the ITF/14 and Under tennis tournament that concluded on Friday at Lugogo tennis club. The tournament that run from April 11-14 attracted junior tennis …
Read More »Muhakanizi: The last of Uganda’s modern economic architects
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | When Emmanuel Tumusiime Mutebile died early last year, Keith Muhakanizi was one of those widely suggested among those likely to become new Governor Bank of Uganda. To those with that view, it would be good to see the accomplished economic strategist replace his former Ministry …
Read More »Uganda Pentecostal University vice chancellor dies
Kabale, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Professor John Ntambirweki the Vice Chancellor of Uganda Pentecostal University in Fort Portal has died. Richard Baguma, University Public Relations Officer said that Ntambirweki died on Wednesday at Le Memorial Hospital in Kampala. Baguma said that Ntambirweki has been ill for a long time …
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