Zimbabwe’s doctors have agreed to return to work after accepting a funding offer from a billionaire, ending a prolonged strike. The strike over pay and poor conditions lasted more than four months, paralysing the country’s healthcare sector. Last year, Zimbabwean telecoms billionaire Strive Masiyiwa tabled an offer to break the impasse. Mr Masiyiwa said he would set up a 100m…
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NWSC Board chairman Dr.Eng Christopher Ebal welcomed the new board members. He appreciated the Minister for exercising his mandate under the water act to constitute new board members for business continuity at NWSC. On behalf of the board, he reiterated their commitment to provide policy and strategic guidance to NWSC management. Eng Ebal called upon the new Board of Directors…
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In an interview with the BBC’s Newsday programme, Museveni said African should have intervened militarily and “taught those people a lesson”. “Libya was an African country being attacked by foreign powers. We should have intervened,” Museveni said. Museveni was referring to the on-going crisis in Libya in which several Western countries are backing military strongman Khalifa Haftar to fight against…
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Over 150 Master Card Foundation supported students have been awarded degrees and Diploma at the just concluded Makerere University’s 70th graduation ceremony. It was a moment of joy and jubilation as graduands supported by Master Card Foundation celebrated their degrees at the just concluded Makerere University. With a vision of serving the academically sound, master card foundation invested financial resources…
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Uganda People’s Defense Forces Battle Group xxvi is back from Somalia after completing their tour of duty. The troops numbering about 2,256 soldiers have been received from Somalia at Peace Support Operation Training Center in Nakaseke district on mission of maintaining peace and stability in Somalia under AMISOM. AIGP Brig Gen Jack Bakasumba who was the guest of honor on…
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A fourth person in China has died from a new virus that has spread rapidly across the country, as authorities confirmed that it can be passed from person-to-person. A 89-year-old man was the latest victim of the new strain of coronavirus, which causes a type of pneumonia. He lived in Wuhan, the city at the centre of the outbreak. More…
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Someone truly sensible when stated, Love makes you do insane points, and this certainly holds true. Visualize you do something big for the individual you enjoy in order to save their lives and also they transform you down when you express your love. This will shatter your heart in a million pieces, right? Well, yet this endure man named Simon…
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On 9th January, during lunch hour prayers at Canan Land in Makerere Kikoni, Bugingo said ’till death do us part’ is not biblical and is the cause of murders between couples. He challenged his congregation to show him a couple in the bible that made such vows. “I have read the Bible countless times but I have never come across any…
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Prince Harry, the Duke of Sussex, expressed “great sadness” Sunday evening in his first public statement since Buckingham Palace announced he and his wife, Meghan, would give up their royal titles and would not represent the Queen as working members of the royal family. “The UK is my home and a place that I love,” Harry said in a speech at a…
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LONDON — From Lome, Togo, President Yoweri Museveni is now in London, United Kingdom to take part in the UK-Africa Investment Summit. Museveni who is in company of Foreign Affairs Minister Sam Kutesa, Finance Minister Matia Kasaija, investments Minister Evelyn Anite among others said the ruling National Resistance Movement government is committed to attracting more investment to Uganda, “now that…
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