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PRIMEHow Facebook investment club has amassed Shs749m

PRIMEHow Facebook investment club has amassed Shs749m

Traditionally, investment clubs were small, community-based groups that met regularly to discuss opportunities and pool their resources into low-risk ventures. Today, this landscape has evolved. Modern investment clubs are now boldly pooling funds to venture into higher-risk assets and f

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PRIMEIs the EU coffee rule worthwhile?

PRIMEIs the EU coffee rule worthwhile?

The new regulation demanding coffee farmers and exporters to prove that the commodity did not contribute to deforestation before being allowed access to the European Union (EU) market has suddenly sent the sector regulator into an overdrive mode, if not, a state of uncertainty, Prosper Magaz

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Suspected Trump assassination plotter has criminal history, ties to Ukraine war

Suspected Trump assassination plotter has criminal history, ties to Ukraine war

The erratic life of a struggling roofing contractor suspected of trying to shoot Donald Trump swerved from bounced checks to a gun felony conviction and a quixotic plan to help Ukraine fight Russia's invasion, before culminating in what appears to be a foiled assassination plot. Ryan Rou

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Magistrate halts session to fundraise for defiled toddler

Magistrate halts session to fundraise for defiled toddler

Kayunga Grade One Magistrate Faridah Ikimaana on September 16 halted court proceedings in a defilement case of a two-year-old and started a fundraising campaign to raise the medical fees. This was after the victim of the aggravated defilement (name withheld) had started passing stool fro

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Ankole uses marathon to stop HIV in its tracks

Ankole uses marathon to stop HIV in its tracks

Ankole residents have turned to a marathon to combat the high HIV prevalence in the sub-region. According to the Uganda Aids Commission’s (UAC) 2024 report, 10 of the 13 districts in Ankole have higher HIV prevalence rates than the national average of 5.1 percent. Mbarara City leads wi

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Museveni steps in to resolve sugarcane price disputes

Museveni steps in to resolve sugarcane price disputes

President Yoweri Museveni has stepped in to address the ongoing conflict between sugar millers and sugarcane outgrowers over the fluctuation in sugarcane prices. This intervention comes after prolonged disagreements about the pricing of raw cane. Mr Museveni’s intervention is contained

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Uganda-Kenyan border villages fuel new FGM

Uganda-Kenyan border villages fuel new FGM

Uganda – Kenya border villages in Karamoja and Sebei Sub-regions are still the hotspots where girls and women are being mutilated, Monitor has learnt. The Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) point focal person for Moroto District, Mr Moses Loru King, said cases of FGM at border villages h

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PRIMEUganda’s debt remains sustainable, says IMF

PRIMEUganda’s debt remains sustainable, says IMF

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has said the political and economic contexts in Uganda are predictable and stable, and that the debt is sustainable, which puts the country in a better position for development. “The macroeconomic environment is not without challenges, with high

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PRIMECheptegei death: A case of prey men eyeing star women

PRIMECheptegei death: A case of prey men eyeing star women

Before the September 14 burial of Ugandan athlete Rebecca Cheptegei at her ancestral home in Bukwo District in Eastern Uganda, pleas were being made for some kind of desperate implementation to end Gender-Based Violence (GBV) being directed towards successful female athletes. Cheptegei,

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Militia kills 10 civilians in eastern Congo

Militia kills 10 civilians in eastern Congo

Ten civilians were killed in a midnight attack by the CODECO militia on a village in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo's Ituri province, the head of local administration and a civil society leader said on Tuesday. CODECO is one of a myriad of militias fighting over land and resources

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