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On May 26, Brian Gouldie, the chief executive officer of MTN Uganda appeared sharp in a navy blue suit, light blue shirt and yellow dotted tie as he presided over the announcement of the company’s new syndicated loan at the MTN Towers in Kampala. He couldn’t have been sharper for …

Qualifiers for 2017 Africa Cup of Nations in Gabon after penultimate round of group matches this weekend: Guinea-Bissau (Group E winners) Morocco (Group F winners) Egypt (Group G winners) Ghana (Group H winners) Algeria (Group J winners) Senegal (Group K winners) Zimbabwe (Group L winners) Cameroon (Group M winners) **Mali  …

Kinshasa, DR Congo | AFP | At the sound of Muhammad Ali’s name Martino Kavuala, now a 63-year-old estate agent in Kinshasa, seems to light up as he recalls the “Rumble in the Jungle” back in 1974 which “held us spellbound”. Ali, who died on Friday aged 74, held the …

Khartoum, Sudan | AFP | South Sudan resumed talks with Sudan on Sunday on a raft of thorny issues, including borders and oil revenues, still outstanding from its 2011 secession. The south’s foreign affairs, defence, interior and oil ministers travelled to Khartoum for the talks, the first since a unity …

President Yoweri Museveni has told German investors at the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce that today’s Uganda offers them a ready market with high profitability ratios un-paralleled anywhere in the world. He described Uganda as a land of abundant opportunities but which is still lacking in capital and the spectrum of …

2017 AFCON Qualifier Saturday Botswana vs Uganda  5pm (LIVE SS4) Francistown Sports Complex Standings P W D L F A Pts B. Faso        4   2   1  1  3  1   7 Uganda       4   2   1  1  3  1   7 Botswana   4   2   0  2  3  4   6 Comoros    4   1    …

President Yoweri Museveni is in Berlin where he delivered a key-note address at the German-African Business Day Forum. “I am here to show you that Uganda is the right place to go as far as investments are concerned and that, it is the right time to go,” he told the …

Josephine Wapakhabulo, has been appointed the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Uganda’s National Oil Company (UNOC). Her appointment announced by company’s board chairman, Emanuel Katongole on Wednesday June 1, comes weeks after The Independent reported that she was being considered for the job. In his statement, Katongole noted that Wapakabulo …

Uganda President Yoweri Museveni Wednesday morning hosted visiting Turkey President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at State House Entebbe. Uganda and Turkey held bilateral meetings that were followed in the afternoon by signing of cooperation agreements and Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) in six areas of visas for diplomatic passport holders; cooperation in …

Former FDC Uganda presidential candidate Kizza Besigye’s lawyers have stormed out of court after their client made a no show for the mention of his case. The state failed to produce the Uganda opposition leader who currently incarcerated at Luzira prison on treason charges, arguing there was an eminent security …