Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Public Service Minister Wilson Muluri Mukasa, has suspended the ongoing restructuring and termination of contracts at the National Environment Management Authority (NEMA) in response to complaints raised by the affected employees. In a June 27, 2023 letter to the NEMA Board Chairperson, Muluri indicated that …
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FEATURE | THE INDEPENDENT | Sumini Nambajwe’s star is on the rise after her recent graduation with a Certificate in Electrical Installation at Nyamitanga Technical Institute in Mbarara, Western Uganda. Nambajwe is now a qualified domestic electrician, thanks to the KCB-GIZ Twekozese programme. She is one of the over 2,165 youths, …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Patrick Ayota has been named the new National Social Security Fund (NSSF) managing director, to take over from Richard Byarugaba whose contract was not renewed. “We are pleased to inform NSSF members, stakeholders and the public that the Minister of Gender, Labour, and social …
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Nairobi, Kenya | THE INDEPENDENT | Equity Group Foundation (EGF) Executive Chairman Dr. James Mwangi has commissioned the airlift of 98 scholars who have secured admission and scholarships to join 52 global universities located in 18 countries. The scholars are drawn from the Equity Leaders Programs in four countries – Kenya …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Museveni has returned the National Local Content Bill, 2022 to Parliament for the second time asking the House to reconsider his earlier recommendations which he said have not been fully addressed. Deputy Speaker Thomas Tayebwa made the revelation as he chaired the …
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San Francisco, US | Xinhua | U.S. payments giant PayPal announced Monday that its senior Intuit executive Alex Chriss will become the new president and CEO, replacing current CEO Dan Schulman. The members of PayPal’s board shared the appointment, effective on Sept. 27, 2023, in a press release. Chriss joined …
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A landmark project in Uganda empowering 108,000 farmers signals of a sea-change in the use of irrigation in Africa. SPECIAL REPORT | BIRD AGENCY | With irrigation-fed farming the norm in much of north Africa as well as parts of southern Africa, there have long been calls for more irrigation …
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Kabale, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The lack of a neurologist is crippling the services at Kabale regional referral hospital. A neurologist is a medical doctor who diagnoses, treats, and manages disorders of the brain and nervous system. The hospital received a CT scan machine from the Ministry of Health …
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Frankfurt, Germany | Xinhua | Germany’s economy, the largest in the European Union (EU), stagnated in the second quarter of 2023 with zero growth, according to Eurostat, the statistical office of the EU. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has recently revised its forecast for the German economy in 2023 down …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Staff of Uganda Electricity Transmission Company Limited (UETCL) were laid off last year due to budgetary constraints, management has said. According to Joshua Karamagi, UETCL CEO, management in May 2022 took a decision to lay off 66 staff whose contracts expired on 30 June …
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