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Livestock keepers in Monduli District have appealed to the Government to investigate a mysterious cattle disease which has killed more than 3,000 cows.
Panic has gripped Mwanza as 142 primary school pupils, teachers and villagers have tested positive to swine flu infection at Ilula village in Kwimba District in the region.
Tanesco has gone to High Court to challenge an administrative tribunal's decision ordering it to cancel and restart a Sh3.6billion medical insurance tender.
FM radio stations often use jingles to stamp their footprint onto listeners' psyche. These usually take the form of a brief memorable musical piece, usually a song or instrumental in which the station name and frequency digits are mentioned.
Having survived a number of evictions, Itai is finally up for eviction with Africa baying for his blood. Last week the Zimbabwean survived when he saved himself and put Nigeria's Geraldine up, who was eventually evicted.
Journalists who have attempted to interview judges will agree with me how hard it is to get these learned friends to talk about their lives. There are few judges of Justice George Wilson Kanyeihamba's calibre who would freely talk about their lives. A mobile phone number of a judge is the least you expect to get from their aides and friends.
"I lost 70 million shillings in that show," 'General' Mega Dee reveals as he talks about his Kanida Akabadi launch at Hotel Africana earlier this year, which turned out to be a mega flop.
Uganda needs $107 million (about Shs200 billion) over the next eight years to address the worrying population growth rate of 3.2 percent per year. The money has to be channelled into buying contraceptives to meet the high unmet need for family planning services, which is the reason behind the country's skyrocketing population growth.
OVER 30m/- is expected to be raised at the Charity Golf Day at the Dar es Salaam Gymkhana club on December 5, to support people with visual impairment.
TANZANIA'S Police Barracks will take part in a continental darts tournament dubbed 'SARPCCO games 2009,' to take place in Malawi from November 30 to December 14.
THE government has said that it will increase tobacco production from 58,702 tonnes of the previous year to 60,000 in the current 2009/2010.
A study by the World Bank Dar es Salaam office has criticized the cashew nuts warehouse system, saying it does not help farmers get good prices and creates more liabilities to the government.
Azania Construction Advisory Initiative has embarked on a program to train building inspectors in all the regions and districts in order to curb various problems facing the construction industry in the country.
I could never have a cup of tea without sugar. Some people think I am living dangerously, and they could be right. Although sugar is not something people fear to ingest, just like any other food, too much of it is certainly bad. And for the extremists any sugar is too bad for your health.
Koala Bears are to Eastern Australia what Pandas are to China. The same can be said of Gorillas and Uganda. Uganda is home to a little over half of the world's population of these amazing creatures which stands at about 720 individuals and whose year of dedication, 2009, is coming to an end.
The statistics of our country's economy still rate Uganda as predominantly peasant.Peasant life basically entails trying to obtain livelihood from toiling for oneself on one's piece of land. This is usually based on the use of rudimentary implements to work the land. The peasant income is always paltry, worsened by permanent strangulation from higher costs of living.
President Museveni recently directed the minister responsible for Water and Environment to send Damian Akankwasa, the Executive Director of the National Forestry Authority, on a three-month leave. The President also directed that an investigation be instituted into the circumstances under which Akankwasa came to possess Shs 900 million.
The debate about the overly hyped patriotism or lack thereof, and the millions of shillings channeled therein could only be more salty if Kabajago Ka-Rusoke, the NRM ideologue, were to inject an input. Many of us who have, either by proxy or direct contact, intimated with the economic and political ideas of Ka-Rusoke will attest that there is no such a thing lacking in Uganda's polity as ...
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There is a misperception created that the late Major General James Kazini was mistreated by President Museveni and the system during the evening of his life. Though a national hero, evidence suggests that Kazini committed grave offences against the state of Uganda.
Orange Uganda and Apple will launch the iPhone 3GS in the country next month after the phone turned heads in the USA and UK. Orange is hoping to target the elite clientele, seeking more value for their money from their cellular phones.
The biggest argument the NRM Chairman, Yoweri Museveni, has put on the table to push for the Land (Amendment) Bill 2007 is that it will stop rampant eviction of peasants from the land. This sole argument has been chorused by all paid up cheerleaders in and outside Parliament.
Someone who returned to this city a couple of years ago after a stint in Europe admits he was amazed at how much transformation there was in the fashion industry. The girls' dress sense was very much in step with what he had seen in some of the fashion capitals of the world.
MILK producers and processors, who compromise quality, will be dealt with "ruthlessly," Bright Rwamirama, the animal husbandry state minister, has warned.
THE National Organisation of Trade Unions of Uganda has started an HIV/AIDS programme for workers to reduce stigma and boost productivity at the workplace.
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