Category: Big Story

UN Promises more support to Youth during Tour of Presidential Demonstration Farm.

KAWUMU- LUWERO By E K Benja Updated 12:43 GMT on Sunday 21st Feb 2021 On Thursday (18th February 21) UN Resident coordinator Rosa Malango alongside UNDP Resident Representative Elsie Attafuah and FAO country representative Dr Antonio Querido led members of Youth Coalition for SDGs at Kawumu State Lodge which hosts Presidential Demonstration Farm Project. Others…

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M7 wants Youth Partnership to Save Uganda’s Forests & Wetlands

STATE HOUSE- ENTEBBE By E. K Benj. Updated at 16:40 GMT on Friday 12th February, 2021 Ahead of United Nations Wildlife Day scheduled 3rd March, Uganda’s President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni on Wednesday (10th February 2021) at State House, Entebbe held an extra ordinary 4 hours engagement with representatives of 25 youth led organisations under their…

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Nigeria’s Okonjo-Iweala Gets U.S. Green light for WTO Post

By HICGI News Agency Updated at 18:14 GMT on Monday 08th February 21 Nigeria’s former finance minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is now poised for the top job as the director-general of the World Trade Organization. She will make history as the first woman to hold the post, and the first African. She was among five contenders…

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Uganda’s UBV-01N rejuvenates efforts on global Covid 19 cure.

By Alberto Mujeere Updated at 00:57 GMT on Thursday 28th January, 2021 KAMPALA. President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has said Uganda and Africa must work for self-reliance and avoid waiting for solutions from the West. Speaking yesterday(Wednesday) at Mulago National Referral Hospital at the launch of clinical trials for a home-grown Covid-19 treatment drug, Museveni said…

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Kamala Harris Sworn in as US first Female, Black Vice President.

By Megan Henney & E K Benj. Updated at 19:21GMT on Wednesday 20, Jan 21 WASHINGTON- Kamala Harris cemented her place in history on Wednesday, becoming the first woman, and the first woman of color, to be sworn in as the vice president of the United States. Harris, 56, the daughter of immigrants from India…

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Ugandans mourn Dr Kisamba Mugerwa

By Desire Ninsiima Updated at 11:49 GMT on Saturday 09th January, 21 KAMPALA- Former minister Wilberforce Kisamba-Mugerwa passed away on Thursday after a brief battle with COVID-19. Family sources noted that Mugerwa who was an agricultural economist, politician, academic, and chairman of the Uganda Microfinance Support Centre passed away on Thursday afternoon at Mulago National…

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