Justice Kakuru who wrote the main judgment agreed with the petitioners that the petition raises an issue for constitutional interpretation and that the section infringes on the freedoms provided for under article 29 of the constitution Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Constitutional Court has declared section 25 of the Computer …
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✳ CLICK TO FOLLOW LIVE UPDATE Entebbe, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Turkish Airlines flight number 606 was today forced to return to the ground after a bird strike during take-off. The A330 however had to fly around Kampala and Entebbe for over an hour to burn fuel to achive the right …
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Seoul, South Korea | Xinhua | South Korea’s tech firm LG Electronics saw its operating profit tumble in the fourth quarter of last year, the company said Friday. Preliminary operating profit came to 65.5 billion won (51.9 million U.S. dollars) during the October-December quarter, down 91.2 percent from a year earlier. It missed …
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Kampala, Uganda | ISAAC KHISA | Local telecommunication devices and airtime solutions provider Simba Telecom has confirmed plans to enhance its market presence and effectiveness by improving its retail distribution capacity. The Simba Group operating subsidiary, which is also integrated telecommunications firm MTN’s lead distribution partner, is investing about US$1,000,000 in …
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San Francisco, USA | Xinhua | Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said Wednesday evening the company planned to eliminate over 18,000 people, thousands more than originally expected. Last November, the company said that the layoffs would affect about 10,000 people and that the job cuts would extend into the new year. In a …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Global Credit Rating Co ltd (GCR) has assigned Uganda Development Bank Limited (‘UDB’) national scale issuer private ratings of AA+(UG)/A1+(UG.) This is a notch below the highest possible rating with the outlook accorded as ‘Stable’. At the same time, GCR has also assigned UDB an …
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Las Vegas, U.S. | Xinhua | U.S. tech giant Qualcomm announced on Wednesday Snapdragon Ride Flex SoC (System-on-Chip), which is the automotive industry’s first scalable family of SoCs to simultaneously support digital cockpit and advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS). The Snapdragon Ride Flex SoC supports mixed-criticality workloads, allowing for digital cockpit, …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | MpaMpe is a digital hybrid crowd-funding application that seeks to bridge the gap between the needy or campaigners, and funders or sponsors, to support their ideas through a transparent model and accountability of funds. Founded in 2021 by five Makerere University students: Maria Luzinda, Emmilly …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | E-wage payment system is a web-based application that facilitates single payment of casual workers via their mobile phones. The app emerged as the winner of the 2022 MTN MoMo Hackathon with the developers rewarded with US$5,000 to go ahead and implement the idea. 12 teams …
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Hoima, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Albertine Graben Refinery Project in Hoima will be one of the big oil and gas infrastructure projects to look out for in 2023 in Uganda and Africa. The 60,000 barrels per day refinery is one of the 70 new oil and gas projects that …
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