Over 100 Fuel Tankers Stuck At The Border
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Wolfgang H. Thome
KAMPALA, Uganda (eTN) - While over 100 fuel tankers are reportedly stuck at the border as a result of a driver's strike and the alleged snail's-pace clearance by customs, Kampala and other urban cente
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Move To Occur In Mid-October
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Wolfgang H. Thome, eTN Africa
KAMPALA, Uganda (eTN) - The Kampala office of Dubai’s global airline, Emirates Airline, has now given out information that the airline will move all operations to the new Terminal 3 at Dubai’s Int
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Uganda Tourism Association
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Wolfgang H. Thome
KAMPALA, Uganda (eTN) - The Uganda Tourism Association, the national tourism apex body, held its annual general meeting (AGM) recently here in the Ugandan capital of Kampala.
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Uganda Economy
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Wolfgang H. Thome
KAMPALA, Uganda (eTN) - The fast rise in recent weeks of all types of fuel, combined with a shortage of diesel, which is gradually now easing again in the region following a major delivery to the port of Mombasa, has driven inflation to new levels.
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East Africa Tourism
By
Wolfgang H. Thome
PARK EVICTIONS START IN EARNEST
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CHOGM Uganda
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Wolfgang H. Thome
KAMPALA, Uganda (eTN) - Roads repaired and upgraded for the Commonwealth Heads of Governments Meeting (CHOGM) last year in November already show signs of major rot.
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African Aviation
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Chris Mburu
KAMPALA, Uganda (eTN) - A Kenya Airways Boeing 737-300 jet was on Monday morning involved in an incident at the Entebbe International Airport in Uganda. However, there were no injuries or casualties on the 113 passengers and seven crew members on board and no damage to the aircraft.
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Africa
By
Wolfgang H. Thome
KAMPALA, Uganda (eTN) - A French tourist visitor had a near fatal run in with an elephant at Murchisons Falls National Park last week. Ignoring guidance habitually given to visitors, to take a ranger with them for their game drive, the group approached some elephants to within very close range before switching their car engine off.
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Libya
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Wolfgang H. Thome
KAMPALA, Uganda (eTN) - The Libyan-funded and newly-built national mosque was last week officially opened by Libyan President Muammar al-Gaddafi in the presence of President Museveni and several other heads of state and government from the wider Eastern African region.
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East Africa Tourism
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WOLFGANG H. THOME
KAMPALA AERO CLUB SUSPENDS TRAINING FLIGHTS
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East Africa Tourism
By
Wolfgang H. Thome
UTILITY PROBLEMS RE-EMERGE
No sooner had the summit juggernaut waltzed out of Kampala, did utility and electricity problems come to the fore again. Since end November several long lasting power outages occurred in this correspondent’s residential area, which, being in the neighborhood of the Commonwealth Resort, under summit conditions ... read more
