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Sweden has been the biggest funder of research projects for the past many years. The country has however announced that they won’t continue with the funding. Per Lingarde, who is the Swedish Ambassador to Uganda revealed this during the Makerere University-Sweden Bilateral Research Cooperation annual review meeting for research support
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Proscovia Nabbanja is the new Chief Executive Officer of the Uganda National Oil Company (UNOC). Nabbanja steps in the shoes of Josephine Wapakabulo who resigned from the job in May this year. The task at hand for Nabbanja is to ensure UNOC becomes a profitable company which brings value to all
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Uganda's Halimah Nakaayi won the women's 800m title at the IAAF World Championships in Doha, Qatar on Friday evening. 24-year-old Nakaayi passed pre-race favoritte Ajee Wilson and sprinted clear to take gold in a finish time of 1:58.04. Wilson finished third and won bronze, losing second to her training partner Raevyn Rogers. Another
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The Speaker of Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga, has commended Members of Parliament and the public for their concern, prayers and good wishes while she was unwell. Kadaga made these remarks while sharing testimony about her healing during thanksgiving prayers held at Parliament, on Wednesday, 18 September 2019. “Just before I fell ill, I
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Ugandan Athlete Joshua Cheptegei has won in the men's 5000m race at the IAAF Diamond League held in Zurich, Switzerland on Thursday (August 29th 2019). Cheptegei crossed the finish line at a finish time of 12.57.41 to win a Diamond Trophy and a cash prize of $50,000 (About Shs 184 million). Ethiopia’s Hagos
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A yet to be identified National Resistance Movement (NRM) party supporter was on Wednesday evening attacked by a group of unknown people who nailed the yellow beret he was wearing to his palms. According to Radio Simba, the incident happened in Kalererwe, a Kampala surburb. The man is said to have been
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Vivo Energy Uganda has announced the launch of the second edition of the Shell Master Mechanics programme that will offer free training clinics and incentives nationwide for mechanics. “The Master Mechanics programme is running for the second year, since its launch in 2018 and will work towards ensuring mechanics nationwide have
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The Committee on Health is concerned that the Ministry of Health is interfering with the recruitment process carried out by the Health Service Commission, a body charged with recruitment in the sector. Legislators on the committee said media reports have been awash with allegations that the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry
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The Speaker of Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga, has criticized the international community for failing to make good their financial contributions to support refugees in Uganda as they had pledged during the Kampala Solidarity Summit on Refugees in 2017. Addressing the 10th Conference of Speakers of African Parliaments and Senates at the Pan-African
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There is no staffing crisis in Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) the Minister for Kampala Capital City, Hon Beti Kamya, has said. She explained that contrary to public reports that many senior officers are in acting positions, “out of the 10 directorates, seven are substantive directors”. “The substantive director of engineering and
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