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Uganda’s Freza Nanotech wins FAO Innovation Award 2024 for pioneering fruit preservation technology
ROME, December 5, 2024 – Freza Nanotech Limited, a startup from Uganda, has won the 2024 Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations [ FAO ] Innovation Award for developing a…
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Global tourism set for full recovery by end of the year with spending growing faster than arrivals
MADRID, December 4, 2024 — Around 1.1 billion tourists travelled internationally in the first nine months of 2024, as the global tourism sector recovered 98 percent of pre-pandemic levels. According to the…
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Gov’t Committed to protecting interests of PWDs, says Museveni
KUMI, December 4, 2024 — The Government of Uganda will continue to protect the interests of persons with disabilities [ PWDs ] through affirmative action. This was revealed by President Yoweri Museveni…
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AfDB approves US$ 170mln for Egypt’s largest wind energy project
ABIDJAN, December 4, 2024 — The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank [AfDB ] has approved a loan of up to US$ 170 million to support the development of the…
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Encourage your children to embrace vocational education to combat unemployment, Bunyoro parents urged
HOIMA CITY, December 3, 2024 — Parents in the Bunyoro Subregion have been urged to encourage their children to pursue technical and vocational education to address the growing challenge of unemployment. Baigana…
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Livestock farmers frustrated over NARO’s delay to release local anti-tick vaccine
MBARARA CITY, December 3, 2024 – Livestock farmers in the Ankole Subregion are growing increasingly frustrated over the delay in the release of a locally developed anti-tick vaccine, which has been under…
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Can we cooperate without communicating?
NEW DELHI, December 3, 2024 – If cooperativism was a country, it would be as big as India. If you lined up 1.2 billion cooperators, the total length of the queue would be…
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Bunyoro farmers launch forum to promote unity
MASINDI, December 2, 2024: Farmers in the oil-rich Bunyoro Sub-region have launched a forum called the International Rural Rehabilitation and Shelter Development Organisation [IRRASHEDE International Organisation], aimed at uniting farmers across the…
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Standard Chartered donates Shs 50mln towards entrepreneurship and business development for youth with disabilities in Kalangala district
KAMPALA, December 1, 2024 – Standard Chartered Bank Uganda last week donated Shs 50 million to the National Union of Disabled Persons of Uganda [NUDIPU] during an event held at its Head…
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Museveni urges East African leaders to push for economic and political integration
KAMPALA, December 1, 2024 — President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has urged East African leaders to prioritise economic and political integration, warning that failure to unite could jeopardise the region’s future development. He…
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