🔴 RESULT CANNES 10K RACE 1. Joshua Cheptegei 🇺🇬 26.49 2. Habtom Samuel 🇰🇪 27.51 3. Abel #Sikowo 🇺🇬 27.58. Cannes, France | THE INDEPENDENT | Ugandan star athlete Joshua Cheptegei has today set a 2022 season world-leading time of 26 minutes and 49 seconds over the 10km in Cannes, …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Minister of State for Cooperatives Ngobi Gume has advised an association of the 11th intake (1996) of the Uganda Police Force to form a cooperative so us to uplift the economic status of all their members. Gume outlined the various benefits their association (class …
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Why the citizens need a mind shift to deal with multidimensional poverty and persistent inequality COMMENT | JOHN DDUMBA-SSENTAMU | Uganda aspires to become an upper-middle-income country by 2040. This is classified by the World Bank as a country with Gross National Income per capita income above $4,096. That’s far …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A two-year study on the refugee populations in Uganda has revealed that refugees are more economically viable than they have been considered before. The ‘End-line Study for the Financial Inclusion for Refugees Project’ on the theme: Rebuilding Livelihoods in Displacement was aimed at enabling policymakers, …
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By auctioning their art to raise money to meet good causes artists are being empathetic Kampala, Uganda | DOMINIC MUWANGUZI | Art is about humanity; how people live, relate and respond to what surrounds them. On the other hand, Philanthropy is the act of improving the welfare of others through …
Read More »Choosing an HIV prevention method
Study shows why it matters to young African women Kampala, Uganda | RONALD MUSOKE | A new HIV prevention study has found that when young women have access to and experience with two biomedical prevention options, the Dapivirine Vaginal Ring (DVR) and Truvada, an oral pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) drug, almost …
Read More »BATU shareholders dividend to drop to Shs 10.2billion
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Shareholders of British American Tobacco Uganda (BATU) will earn nearly 50% less in dividends for the year ended December 2021 owed to reduced profit. Financial results released on Feb. 25 shows that the cigarette firm recorded a sharp drop in net profit from …
Read More »Battle for the internet market
Airtel Uganda increases internet bundles, leaves price uncnaged Kampala, Uganda | ISAAC KHISA | Telcom firm, Airtel Uganda has taken a price war to the door step of MTN Uganda with a massive increase in internet capacities. The telco, effective Feb.21, doubled daily internet bundles and increased the one on …
Read More »PAU, Stanbic Incubator to build capacity of SMEs in oil sector
Mentorship, access to finance and markets are on offer | THE INDEPENDENT | There are more opportunities that are being availed to small and medium enterprises as Uganda expects to have first oil in 2025. The Petroleum Authority of Uganda on Feb. 22 entered a partnership agreement with Stanbic Business …
Read More »Uganda’s inflation rises to 3.2 percent in February: UBOS
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The increase in prices of commodities and services over the last 12 months, ending February 2022 have pushed Uganda’s inflation to 3.2 percent up from 2.7 percent registered in January, the statistics agency has said. Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS) in a Consumer Price Index …
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