Great Britain added relay silver and bronze to their Olympic Games athletics haul on the penultimate night of track and field action at the Stade de France. The women’s 4x100m quartet upgraded their bronze medals from Rio and Tokyo to silver, Team GB’s best performance in the event since 1956, as Sha’Carri Richardson’s flying anchor leg took the […]
Maseru/Rome, 9 August 2024: “The UN’s International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) reaffirms its commitment to supporting Lesotho in unlocking the potential of its agricultural sector as well as enhancing food and nutrition security,” said Donal Brown, IFAD’s Associate Vice-President for Programme Management Department. Invited by His Majesty King Letsie III, Donal Brown visited
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MTN Uganda, through the MTN Foundation, is proud to announce the launch of the second phase of the MTN Changemakers Initiative, a transformative program designed to drive positive social change across Uganda This new phase will see an investment of UGX 500 million, dedicated to supporting 25 new projects in 20 districts in various
AL JAZEERA Sweden’s ambassador to Bamako has been summoned and ordered to leave the country within 72 hours because of a “hostile” statement by a Swedish minister, Mali’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs says. Mali’s move on Friday came days after Sweden’s minister for international development cooperation and trade, Johan Forssell, said the government had decided
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Hon. Medard Sseggona informed the House that some prisons officers were contemplating going on strike over salaries. Parliament has advised Cabinet to rethink salary enhancements for security forces saying the current arrangement is unfair to junior officers whose welfare is continuously declining. Legislators were discontent that whereas Parliament has often increased budget for the armed
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Hon. Flavia Nabagabe said lack of transformers had affected the operation of food processing machines in Kassanda District. Members of Parliament have called on government to improve access to electricity in rural areas across the country to boost value-addition in the agriculture sector. They made the call while debating a report by the Committee on
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The naira gained further on Thursday as the dollar crashed to N1, 595 on the parallel market, popularly called black market. This represents 0.94 percent (N15) gain over N1,610 quoted in the morning trading on the black market. Against the rate exchanged on Wednesday, the naira gained 1.57 percent or N25 compared to N1,620 quoted
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Zenith Bank Plc is offering its ongoing hybrid rights and public offers at the bank’s lowest price range, locking in about a 32 per cent gain in potential immediate return for existing shareholders and new investors. Nigeria’s largest bank by profit, Zenith Bank is offering a rights issue of 5.233 billion ordinary shares of 50
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A Congolese military court in Kinshasa on Thursday handed down a death penalty to more than two dozen members of a rebel alliance, adopting a rarely used weapon to tame a group now declared a terrorist organisation. The court handed Corneille Nangaa, the leader of the Alliance Fleuve Congo or Congo River Alliance (AFC), and 25
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A new report from the UN aid coordination office (OCHA) reveals that food insecurity levels in Zimbabwe are rapidly deteriorating after it was hit with historic droughts due to the El Niño weather pattern. This comes just two months after UN humanitarians declared Zimbabwe as one of the hunger hotspots where acute food insecurity was
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