The Commonwealth Secretariat team has toured a number of hotels and conference facilities in Kampala and Entebbe for next year’s Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM). A total of 53 heads of government, including Queen Elizabeth, who is the titular head of the Commonwealth, will attend the biannual meeting. “We are quite satisfied with what [...]
City property Mogul Sudhir Ruparelia has acquired a prime 15-acre land in Kampala for the construction of a five-star hotel and a multi-storey modern supermarket. The Government leased to him the land belonging to the Chieftancy of Military Intelligence (CMI), at the junction of Kira and Yusuf Lule roads as a compensation for revoking his [...]
Guests at the UN Day celebrations were moved to tears as a drama group depicted the suffering of the children in northern Uganda, on thursday 26 this month. The United Troupers drama group was entertaining guests at Lango College on Wednesday on the theme, ‘Stop violence against children’. The chief guest, foreign affairs minister Sam [...]
Uganda, one of Africa’s major coffee exporters, is set to have its first instant coffee processing plant to be set up by an Indian coffee company, local media reported on Wednesday. According to the agreement signed between the government and TATA Coffee (Uganda) Ltd on Tuesday,the construction of the plant in Jinja, 80 km east [...]
British Airways, one of the top Airline companies in world has started double daily flights to cape town in South Africa. The airline started its direct flights to South Africa in 1984, it 2000, daily flights to the same destination were launched.To confirm its strong presence in Africa, it has now launched double daily flights [...]
The Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA) has signed management agreement with communities bordering Rwenzori National park in Kasese district. The senior park warden, Nelson Guma, revealed that, the agreement aims at creating cordial relationship between the flora and fauna in the park as well as people along the boundary. By Kisaakye Irene Uwase.
Haandi restaurant, the first Indian restaurant in Kampala has been offering delicious North Indian cuisine for the last 10 years. The manager, Alok Badoni, said that, there is along list of spices that go into Indian recipes: coriander, cumin, turmeric, red pepper, nutmeg, mustard, saffron, cinnamon, cardamom, ginger powder, amchoor, paprika and mace. Other flavours [...]
Uganda cricketers will take part in the international cricket council Division two championships due in April 2007, Australia. The Uganda Cricket Association (UCA) has invited 27 players to start training. In the anticipated match, Uganda will pray against USA, Papua, New Guinea, and Oman. New entrants like Tanzania, Malaysia, Caiman islands and Pacific Asia will [...]
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