🌟World Cup 2022 kick-off ✳ TODAY ⚽ Qatar vs Ecuador 7pm ✳ TOMORROW ⚽ Senegal vs Netherlands 7pm Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The long-awaited FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 will finally kick off on Sunday. This year, and for the first time ever, the 22nd edition of the tournament is taking …
Read More »1 DAY TO GO: Italian referee to officiate World Cup Opener
✳ November 20 ⚽ Qatar vs Ecuador 7pm (LIVE UBC TV) ✳ November 21 ⚽ Senegal vs Netherlands 7pm (LIVE UBC TV) Doha, Qatar | QNA | The FIFA selected the Italian referee Daniele Orsato to officiate opening match of the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 between the hosting team, Qatar …
Read More »Can an African team win the World Cup?
Experts combine number crunching and research to predict COVER STORY | THE INDEPENDENT | Many football lovers hope an African team will win the men’s 2022 Fifa World Cup. The world has been waiting for this since the great Brazilian player Pelé predicted (in the 1970s) that an African country would …
Read More »Dr Paul Kawanga Ssemogerere dies at 90
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Dr. Paul Kawanga Ssemogerere, Democratic Party’s former president has died today, aged 90. A close family member has confirmed to URN that Dr. Ssemogerere who twice contested for presidency and led DP for over 25 years died early Friday morning, at his home in Rubaga. He …
Read More »Uganda to receive Ebola trial vaccine next week
WHO’s committee of external experts has approved candidate vaccines for inclusion in the planned clinical trial Kampala, Uganda | Xinhua | The World Health Organization (WHO) on Thursday said Uganda will receive the Sudan strain Ebola trial vaccine next week as the country grapples with containing the spread of the deadly …
Read More »2 DAYS TO GO: Senegal’s Mane out of World Cup due to injury
🌟World Cup 2022 kick-off ✳ November 20 ⚽ Qatar vs Ecuador 7pm ✳ November 21 ⚽ Senegal vs Netherlands 7pm Dakar, Senegal | QNA | The Senegal Football Federation has officially announced the absence of the Senegalese national team and Bayern Munich German striker Sadio Mane from the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022, …
Read More »EBOLA: Museveni issues new directives on trucks, bodas
President says tourists don’t have to cancel their visits to Uganda as the Ebola outbreak is localized to only 6 out of the country’s 146 districts Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Museveni has banned trucks carrying timber logs from entering or leaving Mubende and Kassanda districts the epiceter …
Read More »ACCIDENT: 21-year old Ugandan student killed in US
Ugandan athlete Kimuli survives death but country mate at the wheel Kikuba, was not that lucky Ohio State, US | THE INDEPENDENT | A former Ugandan athlete Musa Kimuli is nursing severe head injuries in a US hospital following a fatal road accident in which a fellow Ugandan died on …
Read More »Uganda paying back $1.4bn Chinese loan for Karuma
This is the largest loan that the country has borrowed from Beijing for a single project NEW ANALYSIS | MUSINGUZI BLANSHE | Uganda has started paying back a $1.44bn loan to China. However, the flagship 600MW Karuma hydropower project that the government paid for is not finished, an official tells The …
Read More »COP27: Funding poor farmers
Why IFAD wants resources dedicated to poor rural smallholder farmers Kampala, Uganda | RONALD MUSOKE | Poor rural smallholder farmers in developing countries like Uganda may not know about the on-going UN Climate Change Conference (COP27) in the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh but they are aware of …
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