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Facility to Create Hundreds of Jobs, Produce Quality Product ARUA, Uganda, May 21, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Pan African Tobacco Group (PTG) Founder Tribert Rujugiro Ayabatwa announced today that ground has been broken on the company's new $20 million tobacco processing and production operation in northern Uganda. The new warehouse and factory, located in Arua, will be operational in five months and will produce its own water and electricity. Once up and running, it will employ 200...
$20 Million Investment to Increase Production, Create Jobs ARUA, Uganda, March 27, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Pan African Tobacco Group (PTG) Founder Tribert Rujugiro Ayabatwa today announced a $20 million (USD) expansion to the company's processing and production operations in northern Uganda that will directly create 700 new jobs and support thousands more throughout East Africa. The investment will allow for construction of a new 30,000 square-meter warehouse and a new factory that...
The Prospero Foundation, founded by Ulrik DeBo of DeBondo Capital, is proud to announce that a microloan donation has been made to Donald in Kitintale, in the Kampala South region of Uganda. Bach, Switzerland (PRWEB) January 17, 2013 The Prospero Foundation, founded by Ulrik DeBo of DeBondo Capital, is proud to announce that a microloan donation has been made to Donald in Kitintale, in the Kampala South region of Uganda. Donald is 30 years old, married with two school-aged children, and...
ATLANTA, Sept. 25 /PRNewswire/ -- M2SYS Technology, an award-winning biometric technology research and development firm, has finalized an agreement to provide Bwindi Community Hospital with their leading-edge fingerprint identification system as part of a donation effort to support global causes. Bwindi Community Hospital provides healthcare to some of the poorest people in the world, affected with devastating diseases such as malaria, tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS, and diarrhea, which are...
A new census count released on Tuesday showed the population of mountain gorillas in the Democratic Republic of Congo's Virunga National Park has risen by 12.5 percent.Rangers from the Congolese Wildlife Authority (ICCN) conducted more than 128 patrols during the eight-week census.They found that about 211 of the great apes were estimated to be currently residing in Africa's oldest national park, with 81 new arrivals now living there permanently.ICCN gorilla monitoring head Innocent...
Text of report by Chris Ocowun entitled "950 babies get HIV treatment" published by state-owned, mass-circulation Ugandan daily The New Vision website on 23 August A total of 959 babies, born to HIV positive mothers in Gulu District [northern Uganda], have received Niverapine to prevent them from getting the virus. Statistics released by the administrator of Gulu University teaching hospital, Rita Namutebi on Tuesday, showed that at least 1,083 babies had been delivered by HIV positive...
Text of report by Gerald Tenywa entitled "Conservationists okay Hoima oil exploration" published by state-owned, mass-circulation Ugandan daily The New Vision website on 15 August Civil society organizations have backed the ongoing exploitation of fossil fuels in western Uganda. They noted that the project would address underdevelopment and poverty in the country. The organizations made the observation while touring Tullow Oil wells in Buseruka sub-county in Hoima District [mid-western...
Text of report by Anthony Bugembe entitled "Uganda hailed on nuclear energy" published by Ugandan newspaper The New Vision website on 27 July The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is satisfied with Uganda's commitment and progress in using nuclear energy in the health sector. "Uganda has so far implemented about 80 per cent of the IAEA programmes for 2008. This is ahead of most of the African client countries. We are waiting for the next step of setting up a regulatory agency on...
Gold exploration starts in central Uganda KAMPALA, Feb. 11 (Xinhua) -- African Mineral Fields, a company exploring for minerals in Uganda has started drilling in the central part of the country to confirm previous surveys that showed large gold deposits in Lugazi, Mukono district. The company, a subsidiary of Magnus International Resources, said in a statement on Monday that the drilling at its Lugazi project started on Sunday. "The drill program has commenced at the Lugazi Project, and is...
By Godwin Muhwezi-bonge Soaring demand from Ugandan men seeking to restore their sexual potency is driving a species of tree known as the Omuboro to extinction. "It [the tree] is like a natural Viagra," said Hannington Oryem- Orida, a professor of botany at Makerere University. "Because of its enormous medicinal properties, the tree is being harvested faster than it can reproduce, thus threatening its long-term survival."The "sex tree", or Citropsis articulata,...
