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Kibaale Chimpanzee Abducts Child Then Lets Go
Kibaale - It was around 9:30am local time on Wednesday in Mabale village Bwikara sub-county in Kibaale district when two children were sent by their parents to buy ropes to tether their animals. Little did they know that their seemingly innocent assignment would turn all around - against them. And there was hardly any foreboding signs for what lay right ahead. Danger invisibly prowled the two ...
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Isabirye Targets Second Straight Uganda Cup
Sports Club Victoria University (SCVU) will be searching for their first title in Ugandan football when they take on Vipers SC in the Uganda Cup final. But for SCVU coach Alex Isabirye, he is aiming for a second Uganda Cup crown in a row, writes Elly Kyeyune. The final takes place this Sunday at Masindi Municipal grounds and it will be the second straight year it is held upcountry after ...
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Uganda Uganda Now Drug Hub Admits Police
The police admit that drug trafficking is becoming a problem in Uganda, with many travellers frequently arrested for the offence in foreign countries. The Police Commissioner in charge of Narcotics, James Kyomukama, told Zurah Nakabugo that Uganda had become a drug trafficking ...
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Uganda Mulago Goes Digital to Catch Conmen Absentee Medics
Mulago hospital has installed two electronic display boards at both the causality (accidents and emergency ward) and Labour suite 5C. The boards are meant to shine a light on quacks and thieves that are on the prowl in the hospital. The boards display names of doctors, nurses and interns on duty to help patients indentify who is and is not a medical practitioner and avoid being conned. Enock ...
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USF Sets Maiden Swimming Gala
The Uganda Swimming Federation (USF) is holding a swimming event, a first of its kind in Uganda, this Saturday. Dubbed The Uganda Masters Swimming Gala, the event is due to take place at the International School of Uganda, Lubowa, off Entebbe Road. According to Ganzi Mugula, who is a member of the federation, the competition that is targeting swimmers aged 25 years and above is set to start at ...
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Wine Tasting Returns At Club Silk
It was wine tasting last Tuesday at Club Silk, so I went to the event not knowing what to expect, I sat nervously waiting for the wine tasting to unfold, then I waited and then I waited a little more until a few people trickled in. My only consolation at that time were the waitresses who kept on asking what type of wine I wanted to taste. The night was meant for tasting Four Cousins wine, ...
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Uganda Johnnie Walkers Black Tie Dinner - a Showcase of Exclusivity
When Kampala's elite choose to drink, they do it in style. Last Friday evening at the Pearl of Africa Restaurant with in the Kampala Serena Hotel saw some Kampala elite do just that. It was a black tie dinner for an exclusive group, invited to witness the launch of a new whisky in the Johnnie Walker family - Platinum Label. They were also meant to taste five other brands of whisky in the ...
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Wheels - Why Kasenyanku Star Prefers a Simple Duet
The God-fearing solo artiste, whose real name is Raymond Joseph Mugerwa, recently released the Naloba video, featuring Mun-G, which is currently rocking the air waves. But there is more talk concerning Ray recently abandoning his Mitsubishi Challenger for a simple Toyota Duet. The Naalya-based artiste talked to Joseph Kimbowa about his choice of ...
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Billionaire Sekalala Dreams of Greater Heights
Ssekalala's early success, which has seen him develop over 14 hot-selling mobile applications valued at a whopping Shs 3bn worth of purchase and advertising money, started in 2011. As one of the best-performing undergraduates of IT at Makerere, Ssekalala attended a software development facilitation workshop by Nokia East and Southern Africa, held at the college of Computing and Information ...
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Just Writing - Its Not Easy Getting Him Out of My Mind
I recently caught up with my ex on Facebook. He has always been my friend for he was the first male friend I had, apart from my brother who follows me. I had taken some years without hearing from him, but I vividly remember him inviting me for his wedding, and telling me about his twin boys a year later. Of course, as you guessed, I didn't attend his wedding. I found it so cynical and ...
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Babe of the Week - Dainty Daphne a Nurse of Many Passions
Her glowing eyes, delicately set in a flawless light skin, draw you to her whenever she smiles - which she does quite often. Twenty-nine, slender, fairly tall and curvy Daphne Kalema is a nurse with a stunning presence but also the brains to go with it. She went through five years (S.2 to S.6) of her secondary education at Greenville High School on a full bursary, following her outstanding ...
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Papa Talk - Spare the Spanking and Spoil the Child
This country has had more than its fair share of child abuse cases and it is quite heartbreaking to watch TV news items in which children have been tortured and broken sometimes by their own parents. Whereas such acts would constitute child abuse, spanking children in order to discipline them is something else altogether. One is an act of hostility; the other is an act of love, and they are as ...
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Change Your Strategy Be Honest
Last week I called on the male virgins to stand and be counted. To the few braves who responded, I say bravo! However I was left wondering if this is something that would come up in conversation. I have had my share of suitors and not one ever said he was a virgin. Perhaps I have been courted only by philanderers, but I think it safe to assume that it is 'unmanly' to discuss your ...
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Watch the Champions League At Lions Bar
No football lover in the world needs to be reminded that this Saturday is the Champions League final. The all-German affair between Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund will see the two tussling it out in Wembley stadium. But the game is not the only fun part as every year we have watched a Champions league final. This year, Heineken beer, the title sponsors of the tournament, decided to add ...
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Metrosexual - to Buy the Right Shirt Know Your Size
Let me say it if you won't: I am tired of seeing guys walking around in shirts that don't belong to them. I am talking about guys wearing shirts that are either too big or too small that they look funny on a good day, and very annoying on a bad day. A shirt is just that - a shirt. It's the quintessential garment for men. Ladies wear them too but theirs have a different cut. ...
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Miss Uganda Goes to Masaka
This weekend, the search for the central region beauty will take us to Masaka's Maria Floor hotel. This is the first time the regional pageant is going to this district. Previously the girls from the central have had to compete in the final national search in Kampala. Following the success of Miss Uganda North and Miss Uganda West that have already been concluded, revellers should expect ...
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Fast and Furious 6 Premieres Tomorrow
I don't know if you are a fan of fast cars and the adrenaline they pump out of your system, but the latest franchise of director Justin Lin, Fast and Furious 6, will be premiering tomorrow at The Hub at Oasis mall. If you have watched the trailer, I bet your mind was blown away. Well, from what I saw, this movie is more sophisticated than its predecessors and has a better sense of humour. ...
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Big Data to Drive Private Water Investment Projects
Waterfund LLC and IBM today announced that they have signed an agreement with the Ministry of Water and Environment of the Republic of Uganda that makes the country the first in Africa to become a member of the pioneering Water Cost Index (WCI). Waterfund, with IBM acting as calculation agent, will work with the Ministry of Water and Environment to calculate the cost of producing water in ...
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Magumba Gets Shock Cranes Call Up
FUFA cannot help but recall former professional players to the squad to face Tanzania in the Africa Nations Championship qualifier next month. Owen Kasule, Hassan Wasswa, Anthony Bongole, Joseph Owino and Tonny Odur have all been recalled to spearhead Uganda's first ever qualification for the CHAN tournament. The players hadn't featured in the competition meant for home based players ...
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Africa News Round Up May Thursday 23 2013
AllAfrica is a voice of, by and about Africa - aggregating, producing and distributing 2000 news and information items daily from over 130 African news organizations and our own reporters to an African and global public. We operate from Cape Town, Dakar, Lagos, Monrovia, Nairobi and Washington ...
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Mamas World - Develop Moral Values in Your Child
In a recent family gathering, several mothers decried the problem of increasing moral decline in our society. "I cried yesterday when I saw a girl whose parents barely fed her well, dressed with half her bosom outside, with beads around her waist and wearing make-up." narrated one of the mothers. Another mother commented: "The problem isn't that our children don't ...
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Ochwo Odongo to Miss Bamburi Semi
WITH Rwenzori hosting Kenya side Nyumbu in the Bamburi Rugby Super Series Semi-final at Kyadondo Rugby Club in Kampala on Saturday, flanker Mathias Ochwo and loose head prop Brian Odongo have been ruled out of that fixture. Ochwo tore his Achilles tendon in Rwenzori's opening fixture against Kenya side Kengewa and will be out of active rugby for the entire year while Odongo has a knee ...
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Uganda Rwandas New Anti-Poverty Agenda
The Rwanda Cabinet on May 8 approved the country's second Economic Development and Poverty Reduction Strategy (EDPRS2), which seeks to boost economic growth and significantly lift many Rwandans out of poverty over the next five years. The program, which starts this year and ends in 2018, encompasses ambitious targets such as accelerating economic growth at an average rate of 11.5% annually ...
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Uganda Saturday Is Laba Street Art Festival
On Saturday, Mackinnon Road in Nakasero will turn into one big festival showcasing our arts and culture at LaBa! Street Art festival. The festival, organised by Goethe-Zentrum Kampala and the Uganda-German Cultural Society, started in 2006. Sponsored by the German, Swedish and Norwegian embassies, and WBS TV, among others, LaBa! festival will have Ugandan artists display their works in tents. ...
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Uganda CAA annouces plans to remodel departure area of Entebbe airport
(eTN) - Travelers using the Entebbe International Airport have for long been suffering the inconvenience of being made to walk long distances from the car parking to the main terminal, often subjected to pouring rain, as a result of the security requirement to keep vehicles away from the terminal. 'Entebbe is the only airport in the region where you cannot drive up to the terminal and ...
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