Two footballing greats face off for one last attempt at World Cup glory 🌟 #FIFAWorldCup TODAY ⚽ Argentina 🇦🇷 vs Croatia 🇭🇷 10pm (UBC TV) TOMORROW ⚽ France vs Morocco 10pm (UBC TV) Doha, Qatar | FIFA.COM | “The winner takes it all” according to ABBA, a band that has been …
Read More »Magengo and Chesang shine as Uganda’s team takes shape
🔴 Leading Cross Country results ✳ 10km Senior women 1. Stella Chesang 33:57 2. Prisca Chesang 34:06 3. Annet Chelangat 34:13 ✳ 6km U20 women 1. Isella Chebet 20:36 2. Peace Hope Chemutai 20:37 3. Charity Cherop 20:41 ✳ 10km Senior men 1. Martin Magengo Kiprotich 29:35 2. Isaac Kibet 29:43 3. Samuel Kibet …
Read More »SEMIFINAL: Morocco make history
🌟 #FIFAWorldCup 2022 ✳ TODAY – Quarterfinals ⚽ Morocco 1 Portugal 0 ⚽ England 1 France 2 Doha, Qatar | FIFA.COM & XINHUA | Morocco will become the first African team to compete in the FIFA World Cup™ semi-finals after a courageous, backs-to-the-wall 1-0 victory over Portugal at Al Thumama Stadium. Youssef En-Nesyri was the …
Read More »UAF: Only those in Tororo will make trip to Australia
✳ Junior Women: 6km ✳ Junior Men: 8km ✳ Senior Women: 10km ✳ Senior Men: 10km Tororo, Uganda | BY LOUIS JADWONG & URN | The Uganda Athletics Federation has decided that only athletes who will compete in today’s National Cross Country race in Tororo will be given a ticket to the …
Read More »Cheptegei, Kiplimo take cross country battle to Tororo again
Tororo, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT & URN | It does not come bigger than this anywhere else in the athletics world. The world’s top two cross country runners will battle for supremacy over 10km when, for the second time in a year, the eastern Ugandan town of Tororo hosts the …
Read More »Government confirms end of Umeme contract
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Electricity distributor, Umeme’s contract will run its full course but will not be renewed by government in 2025. Fears that the Umeme concession would be terminated before 2025 have therefore been put to rest. Government is going ahead with plans to form its own company to …
Read More »Wonderkid Ramos hat-trick spurs 6-goal Portugal
Cristiano Ronaldo’s replacement netted the first World Cup knockout treble since Italia 90 🌟 #FIFAWorldCup 2022 ✳ RESULTS ⚽ Morocco 0 Spain 0 (3-0 penalties) ⚽ Portugal 6 Switzerland 1 Doha, Qatar | FIFA.COM | Goncalo Ramos woke up Tuesday morning relatively unknown outside his home country. The 21-year-old rested his head on his pillow …
Read More »AfDB commits $301 million to renovate Uganda’s railway
The works entail the immediate rehabilitation of 265 km of MGR tracks between Malaba and Mukono, including the line to Jinja Pier and Port Bell on Lake Victoria Abidjan, Ivory Coast | THE INDEPENDENT | The African Development Bank Group is providing $301 million to overhaul the Kampala-Malaba Meter Gauge …
Read More »No money for Uganda’s refugee response
Head of Global Communications says UNHCR does not even have sufficient funds to provide enough soap | THE INDEPENDENT | The UN Refugee Agency, UNHCR, is calling for urgent support and responsibility-sharing from the international community to preserve and reinforce Uganda’s model refugee policy of social inclusion and integration, amid …
Read More »Little insect scares Nsenene trappers
How the Nairobi fly is inflicting pain in the Rwenzori Mountains SPECIAL FEATURE | RONALD MUSOKE | Bwambale Sibaminya, 49, a peasant farmer from Nyabugesera cell, Ntandi Town Council, in the western Uganda district of Bundibugyo was determined to join the grasshopper or Nsenene harvesting business to make some extra income …
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