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A division of the Emirates Group and the region's leading Destination Management Company, Arabian Adventures has appointed a new business development manager as part of its continued expansion programme.
The national soccer team's preparations for the Sunday international friendly against Iran has suffered a setback after two goalkeepers - Barolong Lemmenyane and Botlhe Moralo - dropped out due to injuries.
Ugandans working in Iraq as security guards will not be affected by the ongoing pullout of American forces, Daily Monitor has learnt.
AFRICAN Union chairman (AU) Muammar Gaddafi let Mahmoud Ahmadinejad overshadow the union's agenda yesterday when he announced that the Iranian leader would address the summit in Libya today.
The Kano State government has rented 15 houses in Saudi Arabia for the over 7000 intending pilgrims expected to participate in the 2009 hajj exercise from the state.
Ordinarily, an event 4,374 kilometres away in Tehran wouldn't have significant impact in Uganda.
Vice President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has urged businessmen and investors to explore the opportunities in solid minerals development in Nigeria, stating that government was determined to diversify the country's economy.
THE COUNCIL FOR EAST AND Central Africa Football Association has turned to Saudi billionaire Sheikh Mohammed Ali Al Amoudi to rescue the region's Senior Challenge Cup. The original sponsors Gateway Television (GTV) shut down early in the year.
The ongoing disagreements between Israel and its principal backer, the United States seem a trifle.
But there is also the possibility that Musavi and a religious fringe of the reform movement may have gone beyond the pale.
A 13-member high-level business delegation from the Confederation of Indian Industry is in the country on a three-day working visit to explore existing business opportunities.
Parliament yesterday heard of how some female Ugandans taken to Iraq with promises of lucrative jobs, ended up trapped in slavery and forced sex.
President Museveni recently poured water on the smouldering embers of electoral reform by announcing, in a letter to People's Progressive Party Chairman Jaberi Bidandi Ssali, that there would be no changes to the way our elections are conducted.
All civilizations and nations always have their own culture and history. Usually most nations have a contrived know-how on ways of administering themselves and what specific mode of governance they should use. And hence, whenever a nation experiences some kind of unrest, the only wise thing that should be done is to let the people themselves address their problems on their own.
PERSPECTIVE OF A UGANDAN IN CANADA
President Barack Obama's call for a new beginning between the United States and the Muslim world was received cautiously by Muslim leaders in Kenya. Although the clerics welcomed Mr Obama's overtures, delivered in a lengthy speech at Cairo University on Thursday, some expressed guarded optimism, insisting that his words must be backed by actions and clear policy changes from Washington.
Somaliland President Dahir Riyale told a press conference in the Gulf of Aden port city of Berbera that his trip to Kuwait City was successful.
They like to say in the UK that all politics is local. When last year Russia invaded neighbouring Georgia, an American commentator remarked that the US election is decided by events in Atlanta, Georgia, and not Ossetia, Georgia.
Last month, several hundred jihadis came to link up with Al Shabaab's latest offensive, and now the Taliban are reportedly flocking to Somalia en masse.
Heritage Oil is set to merge with Genel Energy International to create an Anglo-Turkish company that would operate in Uganda and Iraq's autonomous oil-rich region of Kurdistan.
The Angolan ambassador to Côte d'Ivoire, Gilberto Buta Lutucuta, and his former Israeli counterpart to the Southern African country, Tamar Golan, Friday in Abidjan highlighted the excellent state of relations between the two countries.
UGANDAN security guards serving in Iraq will for the second time in two years see a drastic pay cut.
Eighteen people drowned and another 29 are missing and presumed dead after a smuggling boat capsized in the Gulf of Aden due to strong winds and rough seas this week off the coast of Yemen.
Ambassador Amjad Bin Houssein Abdel Hamid Boudaiwy has been in Cameroon for seven years.
The Plateau State Government is to partner with Israeli authorities in the area of agriculture. A statement by the Director of Press Affairs Mr James Mannock said this was disclosed when the Plateau State Governor David Jonah Jang received the Israeli Ambassador to Nigeria.
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