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Airtel Rallies Schools to Protect Environment

Airtel Rallies Schools to Protect Environment

Airtel Uganda has reaffirmed its commitment to environmental conservation by engaging students in a nationwide virtual dialogue focused on sustainable practices, ending plastic pollution, and tree planting, in celebration of World Environment Day 2025.In a zoom session Charity Rwabuto

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Opportunity Bank, Turaco Launch ‘Opportunity Sanyu’ Micro Medical Cover to Boost Health Access

Opportunity Bank, Turaco Launch ‘Opportunity Sanyu’ Micro Medical Cover to Boost Health Access

In a bid to address the low insurance penetration and rising out-of-pocket healthcare expenses in Uganda, Opportunity Bank Uganda has partnered with micro insurance provider Turaco to launch ‘Opportunity Sanyu, a micro medical cover product designed to cushion Ugandan families against medical a

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Basalirwa Warns of Hollow Anti-Corruption Laws Without Exemplary Leadership

Basalirwa Warns of Hollow Anti-Corruption Laws Without Exemplary Leadership

Bugiri Municipality MP Asuman Basalirwa has warned that Uganda’s fight against corruption will remain futile unless its leaders begin to lead by personal example.Speaking on NBS Television on Thursday, June 5, the opposition legislator criticised the government’s overreliance on laws a

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DRC Conflict: Uganda’s Role in the Search for Regional Stability

DRC Conflict: Uganda’s Role in the Search for Regional Stability

Security experts, analysts, and civil society leaders have convened in Kampala to dissect the persistent conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and its growing implications on regional peace and development.The high-level dialogue, organised by the Advocates Coalition for Devel

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Chinese Factories in Mbale Industrial Park Rise to Champion Environmental Protection

Chinese Factories in Mbale Industrial Park Rise to Champion Environmental Protection

In 2022, disastrous floods hit Sino Uganda Industrial Park in Mbale leaving a trail of destruction.The floods that hit Mbale City on July 30 and 31, 2022 killed over 20 people all together and destroyed several infrastructures including at the industrial park.Fast forward,

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Nile Breweries Partners with PRAU for 2025 Run and Flagship Activities

Nile Breweries Partners with PRAU for 2025 Run and Flagship Activities

Nile Breweries Limited has reaffirmed its longstanding partnership with the Public Relations Association of Uganda (PRAU), pledging support for the 2025 PRAU Run and other key initiatives aimed at empowering professionals and promoting community wellbeing.The announcement

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Tanzania announces shutdown of X because of pornography

Tanzania announces shutdown of X because of pornography

Tanzania has decided to block access to social media platform X because it allows pornographic content to be shared, the information minister has said.The content was contrary to the East African state's "laws, culture, customs, and traditions," Jerry Silaa told a local TV

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Police Arrest Activists Protesting Destruction of Lwera Wetland Outside NEMA Offices

Police Arrest Activists Protesting Destruction of Lwera Wetland Outside NEMA Offices

Police on Wednesday arrested two environmental activists who were protesting outside the offices of the National Environment Management Authority (NEMA) over the ongoing degradation of Lwera wetland.The demonstrators, affiliated with the Weka Afri Sustainable Biodiversity and Food Security

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South African politician sacked over visit to fugitive pastor

South African politician sacked over visit to fugitive pastor

A top official in one of South Africa's biggest political parties has been sacked after he visited a controversial Malawian pastor in April.Floyd Shivambu has been removed as secretary-general of the uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) party barely six months into the job after he attended an Easter ser

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Former South Kivu Governo Joins M23 Cause in Goma

Former South Kivu Governo Joins M23 Cause in Goma

Marcelin Cishambo, the former governor of South Kivu province, has arrived in the North Kivu capital of Goma, the M23 group have said.Cishambo was accompanied by a delegation of political figures, businessmen, opposition members, and members of the Congolese diaspora, according to Lawrence

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