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SOME women were arrested in the areas of Bibia and Oraba on the Southern Sudan border wearing thick clothing and heavy perfume. When they were searched, loads of cigarettes were retrieved.
An analysis on the Uganda banking sector has predicted that the sector is "unlikely to repeat recent historic levels of asset and profit growth" because of several recent dynamics in the market.
The Uganda Investment Authority (UIA) will host the third "Home is Best' conference to woo Ugandans in the diaspora to invest at home.
It was once a no go area. If one insisted on moving around Teso in 2003, for example, they had to be escorted by the army.
As debate on the structural challenges facing the East African Community (EAC) continue, another paper has cast the spotlight, this time, on the underutilised opportunities for investment in Lake Victoria Basin.
SMALL and medium enterprises now have a way to raise long-term capital to boost their businesses following the relaxation of listing rules by the Uganda Securities Exchange (USE).
Rwanda has emerged the overall best exhibitor in the recently concluded 'Jua Kali' regional exhibition that was held in Tanzania.
A scathing new report issued by the London-based environment and governance watchdog Platform has put government and oil companies under fire. Revealing for the first time one of the production sharing agreements (PSAs) between Heritage and the government, Platform's analysis reveals that, contrary to oil company and government executives' claims that the state would get up to 80% of oil revenues, ...
Oceangoing ships are responsible for moving at least 80 percent of all commerce worldwide, so maritime pirates are a threat to everyone, especially those who are starving in Somalia and East Africa and rely on ships to deliver emergency shipments of food aid.
The South-South meeting that closes today in Gigiri, Nairobi, is taking place for the first time since the 1990s.
Uganda, the second leading producer of coffee in Africa, is blessed with some of the best coffee in the world. The coffee is grown on the slopes of Mt Elgon in eastern Uganda and other parts of the country. There has been an increase in coffee growing in the world, which has surpassed demand and thus lowered the prices. However, experts in the sector project a surpassing increase in demand in the ...
The country is experiencing low inflationary pressure. This follows a two months consecutive decline in inflation resulting from decreasing food prices.
UGANDANS mourn yet another Member of Parliament who perished in a road accident on Sunday night at Mabira of the Kampala - Jinja highway. Henry Balikoowa, who represented Budiope County, died when his vehicle collided head-on with a tractor belonging to the Lugazi-based Sugar Corporation of Uganda.
An initiative by a mobile phone manufacturer, Samsung, and three non-governmental organisations to train youth from poor backgrounds in Nairobi in ICT and entrepreneurship is beginning to bear fruits.
The insurance sector is at a crossroads as it moves to meet enhanced minimum capital demands by June, while adhering to new restrictions on ownership by individuals.
Multimedia company, Wananchi Group, moved to slash the cost of its internet offering by half, saying it was keen to cash in on its investment in fibre optic technology as it passed on savings to its customers.
Nearly six million working Kenyans will retire from their jobs over the next 10 years without enough savings to live on, according to a new report.
Treasury is expected to announce that it has raised about Sh40 billion through the latest infrastructure bond, market sources said on Wednesday.
Safaricom's corporate customers can now leave most of their day-to-day information technology (IT) systems management operations to the service provider.
THE Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC) has called upon the Tanzanian business fraternity to make maximum use of the Hong Kong free port in order to dominate the Chinese market and other countries in the Far East.
IN a rare feat, the country's economy registered a staggering USD 620.4 million (approx. 806.4bn/-) balance of payment surplus thanks to disbursements from International Monetary Fund (IMF) during the year ending September 2009.
The High Court has allowed an application by the Kenya Anti Corruption Commission (KACC) which wanted one of its former advocates disqualified from dealing in a matter in which the commission has sued several individuals for allegedly acquiring public property.
There have been rumours that the Kenyan property market currently on the upward trajectory is partly being fuelled by funds from piracy along the Somali-Indian Ocean line.
In the recent past, the most traumatising phrase to any regional or international company operating in Kenya has been "Transfer Pricing".
The following is a resolution arrived at on the 6226th meeting of the Security Council of the United Nations stressing its commitment to working the Somali Transitional Federal Government to deal with piracy off the country's coast.
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