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📌 Team Uganda | Engineers 🇺🇬 ✳ Edgar Mujuni ✳ Bonny Omara ✳ Derrick Tebusweke Wallops Island, Virginia, USA | THE INDEPENDENT, NASA & URN | First satellites from Uganda and Zimbabwe go to the Space Station this weekend under a Joint Global Multi-Nation Birds Satellite program (BIRDS). The Cygnus spacecraft will carry them …

The sector has also benefitted from a strong regulator Kampala, Uganda | ISAAC KHISA | Uganda’s insurance sector is more than seven decades old but momentous growth has only been recorded in the last 10 years as multinational and local insurers scramble for a pie of the emerging market. Big insurers …

US hails Kenya’s Ruto for sending troops  to DRC Kinsahasa, DRC | THE INDEPENDENT & XINHUA  |  President Félix Antoine Tshisekedi Tshilombo has addressed the nation over the unrest in east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), and said despite disagreement with Rwanda, he has chosen peace over war. …

EAC governments advised to take advantage of huge demand for ‘critical minerals’ Kampala, Uganda | RONALD MUSOKE | As demand for the so-called critical minerals which are needed to power renewable energy plants and hi-tech transport systems around the world gathers pace, the big question is whether East Africans can …

And other implications of Kenya’s new law on Uganda ANALAYSIS  | THE INDEPENDENT | Kenya’s neighbours have begun reacting to its recent move to allow cultivation and importation of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) with moves that could lead to a slew of new legislation either for or against the cultivation, …

  What happened to Sophia? Sophia Koetsier has a knack for adventure. After her internship at Lubaga Hospital she intended to travel around Uganda before returning home. On day 6 of that trip, October 28, 2015, Sophia went missing in Murchison Falls National Park and has not been seen or …

Kampla, Uganda | FLAVIA NASSAKA  | Private hospitals and clinics in Kampala have been urged to set up isolation units as the Ebola outbreak first announced in September, continues to ravage Uganda. Cumulative cases have now risen to 129 and by Monday, 2183 contacts of these cases were being followed up …

IGP condemns attack on police station Busiika, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A joint security team in Luwero district has launched a manhunt for assailants who raided a police station 33km outside Kampala and shot two Policemen dead. The incident occured at Busiika Police Station in Busiika town council in …

African states are hoping to turn debt into climate action as they seek innovative financing solutions that include a push to restructure their sovereign debts to support climate adaptation and conservation projects Cairo, Egypt | BIRD AGENCY | Leaders of 58 countries vulnerable to climate change – including a group of …

Toka polled 289 votes, while Andweineho came second with 278 votes Entebbe, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | An international student from Sudan, Given Victor Toka, has been voted the new Guild President 2022/2023 of Nkumba University. Toka, a second-year International Relations and Diplomacy student defied all odds to beat six …