The UK survey of more than 1,300 actors found that 64% suffered racist stereotyping during an audition, while almost 55% had experienced racist behavior at work. The actor and comedian Sir Lenny Henry said, “This report finally brings into the open what many of us talk about, and suffer, in private. “We all work in […]
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Under the lease transfer agreement, Shoprite Checkers Uganda Limited’s stores and moveable assets will be taken over by Carrefour, the transaction will further expand the regional presence of Carrefour. whose franchise is held by Dubai-based Multinational Majid Al Futtaim holds Carrefour’s franchise as it is set to take over six stores in Uganda owned by
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Ugandan opposition leader Robert Kyagulanyi said he was “definitely the elected president of Uganda”. Wine, who unsuccessfully ran for the country’s top job in January, accused President Yoweri Museveni of “mass murder” and called on the Ugandan people to “liberate themselves” from a “dictatorship”. Comparing Museveni to ousted dictators Robert Mugabe, Omar al-Bashir and Muammar
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The director of research and policy at the Bank of Uganda, Mr. Adam Mugume, said “Setting up a factory to print money internationally isn’t cost-effective because they print for the global currency. The cost of printing one note will be very expensive because you are looking at your own note”. They concluded, telling the parliament
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The UN rights spokeswoman Ravina Shamdasani at a briefing on Friday in Geneva said “We call on the Taliban to immediately cease the use of force towards and the arbitrary detention of those exercising their right to peaceful assembly and the journalists covering the protests.” following the events where members of the armed group used
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The UNHCR says Dozens of armed groups have been committing violence against civilians in eastern DRC for more than two decades, but the vicious attacks have driven more than one million Congolese from their homes in the provinces of North Kivu and Ituri this year alone, recording more than 1200 civilian deaths and 1100 rape
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The Japanese government plans to extend a state of emergency to about two weeks in Tokyo and neighboring Kanagawa, Saitama and Chiba prefectures, in a bid to contain the coronavirus epidemic, because the number of severe cases and the strain on the medical system have not eased sufficiently in Tokyo and surrounding areas to allow
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Africell entered the Ugandan market in 2014 after acquiring the local operations of France’s Orange. According to their website, Africell had gained over 2.3 million subscribers in Uganda, and on Tuesday it said it is to be ending operations in Uganda and has also pledged to see that her staff are paid to zero balance in
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U.S. Ambassador Natalie E. Brown said, “The United States is committed to ending the COVID-19 pandemic as quickly as possible. These U.S. donated COVID-19 vaccines will save Ugandan lives,” following the announcement made by the US Mission in Uganda upon the arrival of the 647,080 doses of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine donated by the United States to
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President Alpha Condé on Sunday appeared in a video circulating on social media as he was being detained by the military after they seized power in a coup, announcing that it had dissolved the constitution, shut down the country’s borders, and imposed a nationwide curfew. The head of the special forces unit Lieutenant-Colonel Mamady Doumbouya
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