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News of Uganda
Uganda threatens to punish media over succession reports
Uganda threatened Wednesday to penalise media for coverage of a purported plot aimed at stifling allegations that President Yoweri Museveni is grooming his son for power. Speculation is growing that Museveni, in office since 1986, is lining up his son, Kainerugaba Muhoozi, to succeed him, a move (...)

15 - 05 - 2013
Representation Body In Uganda Plans To Establish 4 Factories
The Egyptian Commercial Representation Body in Uganda is supervising on follow up processes between Egyptian and Ugandan investors to start investment partnerships, so as to establish 4 factories in the upcoming period. This came due to the negotiations conducted after the last summit of COMESA on (...)

20 - 01 - 2013
New prosecutor appointed for Hariri tribunal
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appointed veteran Canadian prosecutor Norman Farrell to be the new prosecutor of the special tribunal investigating the assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri. Farrell, currently the deputy prosecutor of the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal, (...)

29 - 02 - 2012
MTN Uganda is top advertiser in 2011
According to a report published on Wednesday by Ipsos-Synovate in Uganda, the country's leading mobile phone operator MTN Uganda continued to top all advertisers in the country during 2011. The report confirmed most observers beliefs over the advertising sector, which has seen MTN Uganda push (...)

23 - 02 - 2012
We condemn threats against LGBT defenders in Uganda
The Women Living Under Muslim Laws (WLUML) international solidarity network and the Violence is not our Culture (VNC) Campaign condemn the recent police raid on a workshop for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) human rights defenders in Entebbe, Uganda. This act is an outright violation (...)

21 - 02 - 2012
Uganda telecoms say vandalism, operating costs a big issue
Ugandan Telecom companies have recently addressed several key issues they face in penetrating the rural mobile market and providing reliable and affordable services. Among the issues are two major problems; vandalism and high operating costs. Uganda's population is 87 percent rural, and so (...)

09 - 11 - 2011
At least 40 killed in Uganda landslide
Officials in Uganda said landslides killed at least 40 people on Monday when their houses were buried under mud. So far 19 bodies have been recovered, according to the minister of disaster preparedness. The landslides followed heavy rain in the Bulambuli district, in eastern Uganda. Red Cross (...)

30 - 08 - 2011
Animal post of the week: 7 eco-friendly (and Vegan!) alternatives to animal leather
This is the animal blog post of the week, as part of Bikyamasr.com's efforts to promote interesting blogs and bloggers on a weekly basis: From Ecouterre: Whether you consider leather a byproduct of the meat industry or complicit in its promotion, a durable “forever purchase” or an artifact of (...)

20 - 08 - 2011
Uganda Telecom launches new promotion
As Uganda Telecom reports new profits from its multiple mobile phone promotions, the company has launched its most recent effort to entice users to continue to use its service, even as price wars threaten to undermine the telecom sectors' profits. The new promotion, called “Endobo-lwali just got (...)

21 - 07 - 2011
Telecom battle on the horizon in Uganda, say analysts
Ugandan telecommunications analysts and observers are worried that the country is on the precipice of another telecom battle between mobile operators after the Uganda Communications Commission (UCC) announced a new draft notice on a price floor that limits further reduction in interconnect rates. (...)

16 - 06 - 2011
Uganda reality show hopes to inspire youth
A new reality television show being produced in Uganda hopes to inspire young people to be entrepreneurs in the country. The reality series, Project Inspire Africa, has been unveiled with the aim of creating a new generation of active business youth in the country and will focus on technological (...)

25 - 05 - 2011
Uganda: Mobile transfers reach $400 million
Uganda has been pushing for an increase in mobile money transfers via telecommunications companies in recent years. In 2008, the service was nonexistent, but recent statistics from the country's Central Bank revealed that in the past year, over $400 million were transferred using the (...)

24 - 05 - 2011
Ugandan government takes over Libyan stake in Uganda Telecom
Uganda's government said on Tuesday it had seized control of Libya's majority stake in Uganda Telecom to comply with U.N. sanctions. "We have exercised our oversight and regulatory role and decided to impose an oversight regime on the company," Information, Communication and Technology Minister (...)

29 - 03 - 2011
Biowaste as fuel
Banana stems, maize and other crop waste will be turned into charcoal briquettes in Uganda in an effort to reduce the number of trees chopped down for cooking fires. The project, funded by the Islamic Development Bank (IDB), will train 600 farmers across the country to make briquettes using (...)

25 - 02 - 2011
Museveni wins disputed Ugandan presidential poll
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, one of Africa's longest serving leaders, won election to a fourth term in office by a huge margin on Sunday but the opposition said they rejected the result. Electoral commission results handed Museveni 68 percent of the vote against Kizza Besigye's 26 (...)

20 - 02 - 2011
Uganda telecoms under fire over quality
The quality of some telecom services has reduced even as operators have made the calls affordable, a new statement from the Uganda Communications Commission (UCC) said late last week. The price wars that started last year have led to call rates dropping to as low as Ushs1 down from Ushs8 at this (...)

15 - 02 - 2011
Uganda looks to subscriptions for growth
Uganda has seen massive drop offs in the number of calls made on its mobile phone markets, which has many experts and industry leaders worried that the sector is suffering. Airtel's managing director V.G Somashekar said that efforts are being implemented that would improve on services and make (...)

15 - 02 - 2011
Uganda's telecom firms look to Internet, money services
Competition among Uganda's telecom firms has been tense over the past year, with a price war waging almost out of control. Now, companies say the key to the future is in the Internet and money services. Telecom company Interconnection is the physical linking of a carrier's network with equipment (...)

11 - 02 - 2011
Business leaders educate Uganda's young entrepreneurs
The Mara Foundation has launched a new initiative to link young entrepreneurs in Uganda with well-established business leaders in order to increase productivity and innovation in the African country. “We will ensure each relationship is closely monitored for hard evidence of change. If we have (...)

10 - 02 - 2011
Uganda telecom sector dictating inflation
Uganda is being consumed by mobile phone usage and a shift away from emphasizing food needs, experts continue to report. The worry is that the consumer price index that was restructured to accommodate communication has had adverse effects on the overall living standards facing the country. “The (...)

09 - 02 - 2011
Uganda coffee exports seen rising 5.5 per cent in January
Uganda expects to increase coffee exports to 250 thousand 60 kg bags in January from 237 thousand in December, boosted by a rise in prices, a source at the state-run Uganda Coffee Development Authority (UCDA) said on Saturday. The east African country is one of the continent's leading exporters (...)

15 - 01 - 2011
Egypt and Uganda sign agreements to form digital communication ties
The Egyptian Minister of Communications and Information Technology, Dr. Tariq Kamel, today signed a package of agreements and accords with his Ugandan counterpart aimed at developing internet content and security. The two countries will also look to foster closer ties by cooperating in the (...)

16 - 12 - 2010
Egypt considers investment in Ugandan power industry
Minister of Electricity and Energy Hassan Younes said that there are opportunities for Egyptian companies to invest in Uganda's electricity sector, according to an SIS report. He added that the Ugandan rural areas are in need of Egypt's help to provide citizens with electricity, during a meeting (...)

28 - 11 - 2010
Ugandan gay activist: “I have to watch my back more than ever”
Frank Mugisha, Chair of the NGO Sexual Minorities Uganda, is no stranger to receiving threats because of his sexual orientation. But when a Ugandan tabloid published his personal details in October and called for him and others to be hanged for ‘recruiting children' he knew there would be a (...)

07 - 11 - 2010
Against AIDS
MRS SUZANNE Mubarak on Monday inaugurated the sixth ordinary round table meeting of the General Assembly of the Organisation of African First Ladies Against AIDS which convened on the sidelines of the 11th African summit in Sharm El-Sheikh this week. Reem Leila reports that the conference probed (...)

03 - 07 - 2008
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