Kampala, Uganda | THIS WEEK | Come Sept.11 Justice Stephen Kavuma will handle 31 cases whereas his colleague Geofry Kiryabwire will handle 30. This according to Judiciary Spokesperson Vicent Mugabo is meant to reduce case backlog at the court of appeal. This new mediation programme called appellant mediation Mugabo said has been …
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Kampala, Uganda| THIS WEEK | Regional retail chain, Nakumatt Holdings, could soon be leaving the Ugandan market after Uganda Revenue Authority closed its head office at Kumambogo Gayaza and the main branch at Oasis Mall over tax arrears. The Kenyan supermarket chain, which started operations in Uganda in June 2009 pioneered the 24-hour …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Motorists heading to the city Saturday have been caught up in traffic for hours as it turns out Kampala Road has been sealed off for the opening day of the Jumiya ya Afrika Mashariki Utamaduni (JAMAFEST) festival. The number of motorists stuck on roads …
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Uganda to start Diaspora Investment Fund to boost industrialization Kampala, Uganda | GODFREY SSALI | Ministers of Industry from the 19 member states of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) have unanimously approved a COMESA industrial strategy with emphasis on local content as the stimulus for industrial …
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SATURDAY: KCCA vs Paidha, 4.00pm Kampala, Uganda | UPL.CO.UG | League champions KCCA and Paidha Black Angels, runners-up in last season’s Uganda Cup, face off on Saturday in the Super Cup at Wankulukuku. Both teams teams are expected to turn out with some new faces following transfer activity. KCCA are …
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Kampala, Uganda | UPL.CO.UG | KCCA FC manager Mike Mutebi is confident his side will reclaim the Azam Uganda Premier League. The gaffer who has won two titles in the previous campaigns revealed this at a function were eleven new players were unveiled this week, six days to the kickoff of …
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Mogadishu, Somalia | AFP | Several thousand fans on Friday watched the first night-time football match to be played in Mogadishu since chaos descended on the Somali capital nearly three decades ago, raucously backing their respective teams in what the mayor called a “historic” event. The match — the final …
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VIDEO: Popular 1990s, Lochode Peter Livingstone barely coping Kampala, Uganda | NTV UGANDA | “All Ugandans from A to Z, Habari Gani!”. That was how Radio Uganda presenter Lochode Peter Livingstone came on to the airwaves on his popular Listeners’ Favorite programme on Sundays. Today, his health has taken a turn for the worse …
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VIDEO: Asian supervising firm told to leave Isimba dam Kampala, Uganda | NTV UGANDA | Energy Infratech Limited, the company at the heart of the Isimba dam squabble was on Thursday 07, September, 2017 given seven more days to handover all work done at the site. The company, whose contract has …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Up to 5.7million children under the age of five are expected to be immunized in a three-day house-to-house polio preventive vaccination campaign in 73 high risk districts of Uganda. According to a Ministry of Health statement, the objective of the September 9-11 campaign is to vaccinate all children …
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