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Land ministry launches 9th National Land Awareness Week in Elgon region
MBALE CITY, August 27, 2025 –The Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development [MoLHUD] has launched the 9th Annual National Land Awareness Week [LAW] 2025 in the densely populated Elgon region [Bugisu…
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Air quality monitors installed in Mbarara City to detect air pollution
MBARARA CITY, August 12, 2025 — Researchers from Makerere University’s AirQo Project have installed 15 air quality monitors at strategic locations across Mbarara City. The initiative, funded by the Energy Policy Institute…
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NRM youth leaders in Lango form SACCO to improve livelihoods
LIRA CITY, 11 August 2025 –- Youth leaders affiliated with the ruling National Resistance Movement [NRM] party in the Lango Sub-region have come together to form a Savings and Credit Cooperative Organisation…
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Adjumani revives environmental committees to combat natural resource depletion
ADJUMANI, August 2, 2025 — Adjumani District Local Government, with support from the Uganda Refugee Resilience Initiative [URRI], has reactivated its District and Sub-county Environment and Natural Resource Committees [DENRCs]. These committees,…
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Sierra Leone and AfDB target US$ 90bln in annual illicit financial flows
FREETOWN, July 27, 2025 — A four-day high-level seminar concluded last week with concrete recommendations to combat the estimated US$ 90 billion that Africa loses annually to illicit financial flows, as the…
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AfDB approves €100mln to empower Morocco’s women and youth entrepreneurs in building inclusive and sustainable agriculture
RABAT, July 22, 2025 — The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank [AfDB] has approved a €100 million loan to support Morocco’s inclusive solidarity-based agriculture programme, focused on empowering women…
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Africa’s financial sovereignty: Mobilising institutional capital for development and resilience
ABIDJAN, July 19, 2025 — As global capital flows evolve and development assistance dwindles, Africa finds itself at a critical point. On May 28, during the African Development Bank Group’s 2025 Annual…
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Karamoja’s poverty puzzle: Why the PDM hasn’t delivered the promised change
MOROTO, July 9, 2025 –– Launched in February 2022, the Parish Development Model [ PDM ] was unveiled by the Government of Uganda as a transformative initiative to lift the “active poor”…
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African Credit Rating Agency to launch by September 2025
ADDIS ABABA –– The African Credit Rating Agency [AfCRA], a privately owned financial rating body, is expected to begin operations by September 2025. The agency will provide credit ratings tailored to the…
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Speaker Among cautions accounting officers on public resources
KAMPALA, June 13, 2025 –– The Speaker of Parliament, Anita Among, has called on accounting officers to ensure the prudent, efficient, and effective use of public resources in accordance with the Public…
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