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[Premium Times] The Conference, which is being sponsored by the NCDMB is touted as a strategic response to the need to strengthen innovations that convert research findings into marketable products and services

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[Nile Post] The National Unity Platform (NUP) has received confirmation that their party office in Mbarara will continue to be housed in a building owned by the late Jolly Mugisha, the party's Deputy President for Western Uganda.

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[Premium Times] Pete Edochie played the lead role of 'Okonkwo' in the 1987 Nigerian Television Authority adaptation of Chinua Achebe's all-time best-selling novel Things Fall Apart.

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[Premium Times] Police said the suspects met the Croatian national on a dating application where they pretended to be a woman to extort him.

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[Nile Post] Prime Minister Robinah Nabbanja has been recognised with the prestigious Global Women's Leadership Award in New York.

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[Nile Post] A report by the Work No Child's Business (WNCB) project has indicated that the number of children in child labour in two Karamoja districts of Moroto and Nakapiripirit as well as Busia has gone down.

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[Nile Post] The Vice Chairperson of the Health Committee of Parliament, Dr. Samuel Opio, has sounded the alarm over discriminatory practices at abattoirs and slaughterhouses that prohibit pig slaughter, posing health risks to pork consumers.

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[Government of Mauritius] Digital Lab On the Go (DLOG) project, an initiative of the Mauritius Digital Promotion Agency (MDPA), under the purview of the Ministry of Information Technology, Communication, and Innovation, targeted around 175 Elderly, today, at the Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam Recreation Centre, in Belle Mare, so as to empower these Senior Citizens in embracing cutting-edge technology and improving their quality of life.

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[Nile Post] President Museveni has appointed Robert Nowera as the acting deputy executive director of Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA), with immediate effect.

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[Nigeria Health Watch] Nigeria stands at a critical crossroads poised to become a double-burden country where non-communicable diseases (NCDs) threaten to surpass communicable diseases, with NCDs claiming 565 lives per 100,000 Nigerians, and 447,800 lives globally, disproportionately affecting low- and middle-income countries.

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[Nile Post] Uganda Police's Criminal Investigations Directorate has been ranked as the third best investigative agency on the African continent.

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[Capital FM] Nairobi -- The high court has ordered officers from the directorate of criminal investigations to speed up their investigations to establish the whereabout of member county assembly of Wajir, who was abducted some 14 days ago.

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[Agenzia Fides] Abuja -- Various civil society groups in Nigeria have declared a "National Day for Survival" for October 1. The date has a high symbolic value as it coincides with the 64th anniversary of Nigeria's independence.

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[Capital FM] Kabarnet -- The government will deploy more Immigration officers to border posts in a bid to beef up efforts to guard against the spread of Mpox in Kenya.

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[FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia -- The Secretary General of Liberia's former ruling political party, the Coalition for Democratic Change (CDC) Jefferson Tamba Koijee says the Joseph Nyuma Boakai-led administration has indulged in acts that target political actors and ordinary people to the extent that some citizens have lost their lives at the behest of state security forces.

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[FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia -- A survey conducted by GeoPoll, a reputable survey institution, hired by Internews, has ranked the FrontPageAfrica newspaper far above several newspapers in Liberia.

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[SNA] New York -- President of the Transitional Sovereignty Council (TSC), Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, General Abdel-Fattah Al-Burhan, met on Friday with the Head of the Libyan Presidential Council, Mohamed Al-Menfi, on the sidelines of his participation in the United Nations General Assembly currently being held in New York City.

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[SNA] New York -- President of the Transitional Sovereignty Council (TSC), Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, General Abdel-Fattah Al-Burhan, met on the sidelines of the 79th session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, Ms. Anne Beathe Tvinnereim, Minister of International Development of the Kingdom of Norway.

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The central bank says the exchange rate allows for greater flexibility.

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[WFP] Lilongwe -- The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today welcomed a US$ 5.2 million contribution from the Government of Norway to support 544,000 Malawians adversely impacted by the El Niño-induced drought. Norway's timely contribution will support WFP's El Niño Response Plan which, in coordination with the Government of Malawi, aims to assist 2.1 million food-insecure people in Malawi. WFP will procure and distribute 3,200 metric tons of maize and ninety-eight metric tons of fortified corn soya

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[SNA] New York -- President of the Transitional Sovereignty Council, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, General Abdel-Fattah Al-Burhan, received Prime Minister of Somalia, Hamza Abdi Barre, on Friday, on the sidelines of the 79th session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York.