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    Banana prices dropping
    5060675We are in the second quarter of 2010 and the weather is relatively hot. Because of the unfavourable condition food production has been affected, reflecting negatively on prices.However, the price of matooke one of the most consumed food item in ...
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    ‘Tullow still assessing cross listing timelines’
    5060674Tullow Oil is yet to find a suitable date to start selling its shares at the Uganda Securities Exchange (USE) where a dozen other companies are listed for tradingMr Jimmy Kiberu the company’s spokesman in Uganda said Tullow is reviewing new ti...
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    Trade body partners with Africa consultants
    The International Trade Centre has partnered with Africa’s trade consultants to increase the exporters’ competitiveness at the international market.Ms Aicha Pouye, the ITC director of business and institutional support, said in Entebbe on Tuesday t...
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    Tariff barriers continue to hinder EAC trade flow - research
    5060672Researchers have cautioned Uganda against the continued existence of Non Tariff Barriers, in the Common Market, which affect the follow of trade between Uganda and East Africa member states.In a study conducted by Dr. Luke Okumu and Prof James N...
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    Burundi, Uganda top East Africa’s most corrupt list
    5060671Burundi has been named the most corrupt country in the region, according to the 2010 East African Bribery Index which was launched by Transparency International in Nairobi on Thursday.The index, which was previously confined to Kenya, Uganda and...
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    Government calls off oil deal
    5060670Uganda will seek the full amount in taxes from the transfer of assets from Heritage oil after all, according to reliable sources,This comes after reports that President Yoweri Museveni personally insisted that the taxes due to the government fro...
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    Black and bold: The true face of African defiance
    506069Even in death, Fela Anikulapo Kuti, who, alongside Bob Marley and James Brown, electrified the world with explicitly anti-establishment and unapologetically ghetto-inspired black music, is still making waves. A tribute to the fallen revolutionary...
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    South Sudan promises to crush terrorists
    506068Mr David Amuor Majur is Secretary General of South Sudan Youth Forum for Referendum. With the Focus on the African Union Summit in Kampala shifting to what the African heads of state and government will resolve on the strategy on Somalia, Mr Amou...
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    We have a right to self-defence, says Museveni
    506067Somalia seems to be suffering on account of a confluence of three factors:A failed government under Siad Barre that could not defeat or keep under check the various rebel groups; incapable resistance groups to that government of Siad Barre; and, ...
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    The story of the African unity effort
    506066The 2010 summit of African heads of state and government opens in Kampala today. It is the latest in many summits by African leaders that go back to the founding of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) on May 25, 1963 as Kasozi Nasser reviews:...
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    Museveni meets spy chiefs over Somalia
    506065President Museveni on Friday night met intelligence chiefs over the July 11 attacks on civilians and pressed them to individually explain why they had failed to detect and prevent the attack.According to intelligence sources, the President met hi...
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    Leaders arrive for African Union summit, LYBYAN PRESIDENT ENTERS ENTEBBE AMIST TIGHT SECURITY.
    505063HEADS of State yesterday, including the chairman of Africa Union Libyan leader Col. Muamaur Elgadhafi jetting into the country to attend the 15th African Union Heads of State Summit taking place at Speke Resort Munyonyo, in Kampala.President Gadh...
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    President Ahmadinejad reveals new US scenario against Iran
    500156 AfranTehran, July 24, IRNA – President Mahmoud Ahamdinejad here Friday unveiled truth about new US-Zionist scenario against Iran, expressing sorrow that Russia, too, is now harmonizing with it.According to IRNA presidential affairs reporter...
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    Al-Shabaab deny Uganda home tie
    506061 KampalaICC Intercontinental ShieldUganda v NambiaUganda Cricket Association were left cutting a ‘hands-on-head’ posture appealing to the International Cricket Council (ICC) after the latter moved their Intercontinental Shield home fixture w...
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    Al Shabaab man arrested on US plane to Uganda
    506060 A 20-year-old man accused of providing material support to al Shabaab militant group that claimed responsibility for the July 11 bomb attacks here has been arrested in New York, US authorities announced on Wednesday. He was arrested as he tried...
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    Supreme Leader raps global arrogance for abetting terror in Zahedan
    500155 ?AfranTehran, July 21, IRNA -- Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei on Wednesday held the US, Britain and the Zionist regime responsible for raising terrorists to escalate sectarian Shia-Sunni tension in Iran....
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    South Africa's donations distributed among the people of Gaza
    500154 AfranPretoria, July 20, IRNA - South African Government and public donations were distributed among the under siege people of Gaza on Tuesday after a successful crossing over Rafah.The aids composed of 12 tons of medical and pharmaceutical do...
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    Larijani: UNSC's Iran approach wrong
    500153 AfranParliament Speaker says the UN Security Council approach toward Tehran's nuclear program will not yield any result, as Iran will not surrender to pressure."We need a new plan in which Iran's rights are completely supported,"Ali Larijani ...
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    Nasrallah urges execution of Israeli spies
    500152 AfranHezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah called on Friday to execute the death sentences against the spies without delay, praising in this context the stance of President Michel Sleiman who expressed readiness to sign any death se...
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    Israel still holding media equipment seized from Gaza flotilla
    500151 AfranLondon, July 14, IRNA -- The UK government is continuing to press Israel for the return of electronic and media equipment seized during its attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla in international waters six weeks ago, according to Foreign ...
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