Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  The Federation of Uganda’s Football Association (FUFA) has partnered with Harris International’s leading energy drink brand, Rock Boom, to enhance the annual FUFA Drum Competition. The FUFA inter-provinces competition is scheduled to return to action in May 2023, five months after the previous edition …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Joseph Kateregga, a student at Makerere University has petitioned the Dean of Students to disqualify all Guild Candidates that are affiliated with National Political parties to Foster a Neutral Student Government. Kateregga’s petition comes nearly two weeks before the election of the new Guild …

Kigali , Rwanda | THE INDEPENDENT |  Kenya and Rwanda Tuesday signed an agreement in 10 areas of cooperation to enhance relations. The Memorandum of Understanding will establish mechanisms for effective cooperation in Education, ICT, Gender and Child Development, Youth and Capacity Development for the Public Service. Other areas of …

Regulators on the continent are developing frameworks that allow customers of traditional banks to engage with third-party service providers via their banking apps – blowing open a multi-billion dollar market. Abuja, Nigeria  | BIRD AGENCY  |  Nigeria in March became the first African country to launch open banking on the …

SPECIAL FEATURE | THE INDEPENDENT |  Quarterly Review of the Performance of Uganda’s Financial Markets, with Catherine Kijjagulwe, Head of Trading at Absa Bank Uganda. ****** QUESTION: How did the shilling open 2023? The currency opened the year trading at the 3715/3725 levels at the beginning of January 2023. QN: What were …

Kigali, Rwanda | Xinhua |  Rwanda is set to significantly lower the number of patients referred abroad for organ transplants after parliament passed a law regulating the sector, the Rwandan Ministry of Health said Thursday. The legislation regulating the use of the human body, organs, tissues, cells, and products of …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Minister of Health Dr. Jane Ruth Aceng has said that there is a need for a blood transfusion policy to regulate blood in the country. While speaking on Thursday at the launch of the Africa Society for Blood Transfusion Congress that will be …

Museveni clarifies: UPDF part of EAC force, not in DRC to fight M23 Bunagana, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The East African Community (EAC) Regional Force officials have been locked in a series of high-profile meetings with the leadership of the M23 rebels at the Bunagana border as Uganda People …

To make his school more accessible – and help clean up his local community – 38-year-old Patrick Mbamarah accepts plastic bottles collected from the street instead of tuition fees Lagos, Nigeria | BIRD AGENCY |  When a neighbour recommended Morit International School to Ijeoma Obiora three years ago and told …

Geneva, Switzerland | Xinhua |  The International Olympic Committee said there is “overwhelming support” from the Olympic community for its recommendations on the status of Russian and Belarusian athletes. The IOC has released six recommendations to International Federations (IFs) and international sports event organizers that would allow athletes with Russian …