President Yoweri Museveni is in Berlin where he delivered a key-note address at the German-African Business Day Forum. “I am here to show you that Uganda is the right place to go as far as investments are concerned and that, it is the right time to go,” he told the …
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Frankfurt, Germany | AFP | Lightning struck a football pitch in western Germany on Saturday, injuring 35 people, three of them seriously, news agency DPA reported. The accident — which came as 11 people were hurt in a similar freak strike at a birthday party in a Parisian park — …
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SV Werder Bremen striker Melvyn Lorenzen has arrived to join the Uganda Cranes camp that has started training for their penultimate African Cup of Nations qualifying match June 4 away against Botswana. He arrived at Entebbe Airport just after 1.30pm on Tuesday with his manager Manager Hankus Rainer aboard Emirates …
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Berlin, Germany | AFP | Try looking for a free wi-fi connection in the cafe down the street in Germany and, more likely than not, there isn’t one. Forget about looking for open connections in parks or at key monuments. They just don’t exist. In an age when almost everyone …
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FULL-TIME Man City 2-2 Arsenal. Sanchez earns @Arsenal a big point in their bid for Champions League qualification pic.twitter.com/NjrCruUxxF — Premier League (@premierleague) May 8, 2016 Manchester, United Kingdom | AFP | Alexis Sanchez’s 68th-minute equaliser dealt a potentially fatal blow to Manchester City’s Champions League qualification hopes as Arsenal …
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By Stephen Kafeero In a move to strengthen the cooperation between the German and Uganda Police in the fight against international terrorism and organized crime, the Uganda Police has today received a contingent of 4 vehicles and other communication equipment from the Federal Republic of Germany to support the Forensic …
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By Sarah Namulondo Germany has finally followed suit in suspending it’s proposed on budget support to Uganda after several withdrawals from donor countries under the Joint Budget Support Framework (JBSF). The German Government, as other development partners was appalled by the level of the recent mishandling of development partners’ funds …
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By Patrick Kagenda The German government continues to fund Uganda Railways Corporation operations despite the rail operations being conceded to Rift Valley Railways (RVR). German Development Bank (Kfw) spokesman, Mr Wolfram Schweickhardt told The Independent from Frankfurt that in the framework of the Uganda German Development Cooperation, the Federal Republic …
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