Currently, the agricultural sector in Uganda employs over 78% of Uganda’s population, accounts for 53% of the national export revenue and contributes 24% of GDP.[9] It has great potential to address youth unemployment currently at 83%. “We believe that agriculture can do much better if more youth are attracted given their natural vibrancy and creativity” says Khamutima Tumwebaze, the Executive ...
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Ghana Now Issues Visas On Arrival To All African Citizens
Ghana has begun offering visas upon arrival to all African nationals,[9] a step towards creating a continent-wide zone of free movement. Check also: Open Visa Policy: Africans Will Be Able To Visit Any African Country By 2018 The West African country rolled out the policy on Friday,[4] allowing citizens of African Union (AU) member states to get visas for up ...
Read More »Meet China’s Longest Glass Bridge
Just in case the public wasn’t sufficiently convinced by a journalist smashing the world’s longest and highest glass bridge with a sledgehammer ( and surviving ),[9]the owners of the Zhangjiajie Grand Canyon bridge in China decided to prove its safety by upping the ante over the weekend.[4] Check also: India’s Bullet Train To Travel Under The Sea In its latest media-directed “safety ...
Read More »Here’s Why Some Chinese People Enjoy Eating Babies
Some Chinese people are known to be eating babies, and the news, [9]which has been circulating through the internet and via email, is shocking the world. [4]A person visited a town in the southern province of Canton ( Guangdong ) where he found something unusual in one noodle soup restaurant.[8] Check also: A Place Where People Eat Human Flesh Discovered In ...
Read More »African Union Launches An All-Africa Passport
On June 13,[9] two weeks before the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union, the African Union announced a new “single African passport.” The lead-up discussion was much like the original debate on the European Economic Community,[2] the E.U.’s predecessor. African passport proponents say it will boost the continent’s socioeconomic development because it will reduce trade barriers and allow people, ideas, goods,[7] services ...
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