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Chinese firms employ over 30,000 Ugandans

17 Apr 2013

Chinese ambassador, Zhao Yali and Foreign affairs minister Sam Kutesa. Photo by Francis Emorut

Chinese firms employ 33,000 Ugandans over a period of the last 19 years, the Chinese ambassador, Zhao Yali, has revealed. This is according to the statistics of Uganda Investment Authority ...

For better quality education in Africa

12 Apr 2013

Hon. Kofi Annan, former Secretary General of the United Nations

Amid continuing calls to increase primary school enrolment in Africa, a new report urges greater emphasis on the quality of what students learn. The Africa Progress Panel, a policy think ...

Uganda’s coffee exports jump 66 percent

10 Apr 2013

KAMPALA – Uganda’s coffee exports jumped 66 percent in March year-on-year as farmers released stockpiles before the next harvest, a source at the Uganda Coffee Development Authority (UCDA) told Reuters ...

Chinese customers hide their faces as they wait to collect free breakfast at McDonalds

18 Mar 2013

McDonald's gave away more than a million McMuffins across China on Monday

McDonald’s helped to brighten the Monday morning of hungry breakfast-goers with a giveaway of 121,000 free Egg McMuffins. At 5am on the dot at the Tampines Mall outlet, McDonald’s employees ...

Financial scribes in Tanzania urged to vie for Diageo Awards

13 Mar 2013

Tanzania is still the only country with the lowest entries in The Diageo Africa Business Reporting Awards this year, a situation that has influenced organisers to extend the deadline to ...

Uganda coffee exports up 35 percent

13 Mar 2013

A coffee farmer picks ripe berries in a farm in Karatina

KAMPALA – Uganda’s coffee exports rose 34.5 percent year-on-year in February to 328,643 60-kg bags on favourable weather and greater stock availability, the state-run Uganda Coffee Development Authority (UCDA) said ...

Deal reached to resume Sudan-S Sudan oil flow

12 Mar 2013

Oil is vital to the economies of both Sudan and South Sudan

South Sudan and Sudan have agreed to resume pumping oil after a bitter dispute over fees which saw production shut down more than a year ago. The South, which seceded ...

Cardinal Turkson: Africa’s best hope for pope

9 Mar 2013

Cardinal Peter Kodwo Appiah Turkson, center, is photographed by the media as he arrives for an afternoon meeting, at the Vatican, Friday, March 8, 2013. The Vatican says the conclave to elect a new pope will likely start in the first few days of next week. The Rev. Federico Lombardi told reporters that cardinals will vote Friday afternoon on the start date of the conclave but said it was "likely" they would choose Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday. The cardinals have been attending pre-conclave meetings to discuss the problems of the church and decide who among them is best suited to fix them as pope. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

ACCRA, Ghana (AP) — Often cast as the social conscience of the church, Ghana’s Cardinal Peter Turkson is viewed by many as the top African contender for pope. The 64-year-old head of the Vatican’s peace ...

Rwanda is my heaven, Don’t kubeba!

1 Mar 2013

It takes far much more to heal a wounded nation They are right when some say that heaven start on earth; I have mine in Rwanda. To believe what you ...

Tha Icon: I paint music with my voice, in words and melody

24 Feb 2013

Mostly known by his tracks such is “Nakupenda” ft. Rabadaba, “Nga Balongo” and “Empisazo” and now “Kiriza,” which is capturing massive fans for him in both Europe & Africa. Muhima ...

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