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Uganda: Jubilee Insurance Records 9.9 Percent Growth Amid COVID
Jubilee Holdings Limited, East Africa's largest insurance group, has reported a 9.9 per cent growth in the Financial Year
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WASHINGTON, DC, United States (AP) — “A Trump enemy statement,” he said of one
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Fight over mid-term access to NSSF savings heads to court
A Bill to have Ugandan savers access 20 per cent of their contributions to the National Social Security Fund (NSSF) to see them through the economic hardships of the Covid-19 pandemic, has ignited heated parliamentary and public debate, and ended in court after opposition from the
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Source: The East African
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Help for domestic violence victims
Since many places across the world have been forced to institute lockdowns, where citizens are forced to stay in our homes and go out only when absolutely necessary, we have seen an increase in the domestic violence
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Truck drivers decry long border wait
Past studies conducted in Kenya found that truck drivers face a higher risk of contracting and spreading viruses, like HIV/Aids, because they are a highly mobile vulnerable group that traverses the country and often spends nights stopped in temporary locations, where exposure is high and testing
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Thai malls reopen after virus shutdown
Shoppers flocked to Thailand's top-end malls on Sunday, eager for retail therapy as shopping centres reopened in a gradual easing of restrictions to revive the virus-ravaged
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Low-income areas will struggle to contain Covid-19
A s the Covid-19 crisis continues, a new report suggests that it will be hard to control the spread of the virus in low-income
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Health organisations say children under one at risk of diseases amid COVID-19
GENEVA, Switzerland (CMC) — Several health organisations are warning that children under the age of one in the Caribbean are at risk of contracting diseases like diphtheria, measles and polio because the COVID-19 pandemic is disrupting life-saving immunisation
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Sagicor Group takes $5b COVID hit
(Jamaica Gleaner) Sagicor Group Jamaica Limited took a $5-billion hit on its investment securities, which led to lower profit in the March
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Nigeria: Tomato 'Ebola' Resurfaces in Kano, Ravages Farms
The Kano State chairman of Tomato Out Growers Association of Nigeria (TOGAN), Sani Danladi, has revealed that Tuta absoluta, one of the most devastating pests affecting tomato crops, has resurfaced in the state, destroying
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Source: allAfrica.com
Covid-19 could cancel 28 million surgeries
During the onset of the coronavirus in the country, elective surgeries across all government hospitals were suspended in March, forcing thousands of Kenyans in need of one or more of these scheduled surgeries to restore their lives to
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Kenya: Floods Blamed on Uganda's Policy on Releasing Lake Water
The East African Community (EAC) Council of Ministers suggests Uganda may have breached the agreements on how much water to release from Nalubaale dam -- the main outlet of the world's largest freshwater
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Rwanda: Nuts and Bolts - Economic Depreciation and Inflation
Conceptually, inflation is a measure of the rate at which the average price of goods and services in an economy increases over some period of
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28% of Tobago fire officers vaccinated
The content originally appeared on: Trinidad and Tobago Newsday News A firefighter moves a hose after putting out a blaze. File photo. ROGER JACOB President of the First Divisional Fire Officers’ Association David Thomas has said only about 28 per cent of the fire officers in Tobago are
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Kenya: COVID-19 Death Toll Rises to 50 As Registered Cases Soar to 832
Nairobi — Coronavirus deaths in the country rose to 50 on Saturday, after 5 more patients succumbed to the disease within a period of 24
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Kenyatta moves to reassert control of ruling party
Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta is moving to reassert control of his ruling Jubilee Party by purging the parliamentary leadership of rebels who have threatened to derail his legacy, succession and post-pandemic economic recovery
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Africa: Pandemic Adds to String of Disasters That Render Africa Perpetually Hungry
Recurrent floods since late 2019, an upsurge in locust invasion, and now the Covid-19 outbreak, all make for disaster for food security in East African countries, experts are
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Rwanda: National Budget - Economic Recovery to Take Lion's Share
The Government has said that it plans to spend the biggest share of the 2020/21 budget on activities that will boost the economy as part of a broader plan to respond to the impact of
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eProbe | Spirits down as live entertainment events go on ice - Not the flattening of the curve we wanted, says distributor
Alcohol consumption and parties usually go hand in hand, but where there are no parties, social gathering and other entertainment events, it is expected that there would be significant losses for alcohol companies and
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Exam headache!
Aleisha Salmon, a grade 12 student at Meadowbrook High, told the Jamaica Observer that since the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) forced the physical closure of schools, she has been worried and fearful as she is not certain what will obtain with the Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examinations
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Uganda: Era Cuts Transmission Costs By More Than Half
The Electricity Regulatory Authority (ERA) has slashed Uganda Electricity Transmission Company Limited's (UETCL) capital, operation and maintenance costs by more than half for the period
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Africa: Mobile Money Becomes Lifeline as Telecoms Thrive in COVID-19 Era
Mobile money and data have emerged as the lifeline in revenue growth for African-focused telecoms operators Vodacom Group and Airtel Africa across markets characterised by stiff competition and challenging regulatory
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Do it now!
The suggestion by Quality Incorporations VII Ltd Director Krishna Vaswani is that the Government starts reopening the economy in parishes where there are few cases of the novel
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Court bars two varsities from reducing staff pay
Justice Byram Ongaya on Friday barred Egerton and Kisii universities from paying staff reduced salaries pending hearing and determination of a case filed by the Universities Academic Staff Union
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Morrison, Davis Whyte against salary cuts for politicians, civil servants
SENIOR trade unionist Vincent Morrison is asserting that salary cuts, both in the private and public sector, is not the solution for economic recovery
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Nigeria: Report - Nigerians Experience Income Drop After Lockdown
A recent survey carried out by FinMark Trust through the i2i initiative, in partnership with EFInA, reveals that some Nigerian households are beginning to experience reduced income, lower food consumption, and reduced access to financial and health services following the onset of the COVID-19
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Kenya, Tanzania call truce on border row
Kenya and Tanzania on Friday agreed to reopen their borders after a tense week marked by a simmering trade dispute occasioned by the Covid-19
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Uganda: Court Petitioned to Compel NSSF to Pay 20 Percent to Members
A human rights activist yesterday petitioned the Constitutional Court in Kampala, seeking its orders to, among others, compel the National Social Security Fund (NSSF) to pay out each of its members atleast 20 per cent of their savings to mitigate the pressures brought about by Covid-19
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Courts Optical gives civil servants up to 75% off
Unicomer (Jamaica) Limited says it is giving customers at its Courts Optical stores discounts of up to 65 per cent on select frames and has added a further 10 per cent off for civil
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Tanzania inflation stable: report
Cost of living remained low in Tanzania in March despite the economic challenges brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic with the 12-month headline inflation easing to 3.4 per cent from 3.7 per cent in
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