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At least four corporate companies namely; Stanbic Bank, Kampala City Council Authority (KCCA), Coca-Cola Beverages Africa in Uganda, and Nice House of Plastics have partnered to promote responsible use and recycling of plastic waste and sustainable environmental protection in Kampala. According to the  Memoranda of Understanding, these corporate companies agreed to support various waste management initiatives in communities. They will ...

Ghana has suspended all parliamentary sittings due to the increasing coronavirus cases in the country. This will go on for about three weeks until a solution is found. Most of the parliamentarians including the Speaker, Alban Bagbin have recently contracted the virus. The alarming rate of infections within the chambers couldn’t let the sessions go on when the situation is ...

The Parliament of Uganda has halted the passing of a Shs 291 billion supplementary budget. Part of this budget had to help fuel the procurement of the awaited Covid-19 vaccine and the purchase of new ambulances among other things.The decision to halt the passing of the supplementary budget came after the chairperson of the Uganda Land Commission, Beatrice Byenkya wrote ...

In a bid to improve business transactions, Airtel Uganda has partnered with MasterCard and Asante Financial Services Group to launch kwata essimu campaign. This will enable small and medium enterprises and entrepreneurs to acquire  Samsung smartphones on credit. Manoj Murali, the Managing Director Airtel said the platform directly tackles the ongoing socioeconomic difficulties resulting from limited access to financing by ...

Not so long ago, a mention of the Russian-made Sputnik V covid vaccine would provoke mockery. But it turns out the world despised what has grown to become one of the successful drugs in the fight against Covid-19.‘’There’s no way in hell the U.S. tries this on monkeys, let alone people,’’ a Trump official told reporters in August.The Sputnik V ...