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It’s a sunny afternoon, and Kampala’s downtown in the city’s central business area is busy as usual. At the heart of downtown is the country’s largest garages complex (Kiseka market), a taxi park, a bus park, shopping malls, an agro-input market, as well as the famous Owino market, a one-stop place for all food and clothing items.
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Ben Mugambi, 26, first decided to invest in cryptocurrencies to beat the lockdown tedium at the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020. His first escapades in the industry went well and he was certain he would be trading in cryptos for a long time. And for a while, it was his sole source of income.
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Ahead of COP27, academics from 50 institutions have called for a shift in how politicians, funders and researchers think about the clean energy transition in the African continent, as a new study highlights radically different energy needs across countries.
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The Minister of Education, also First Lady Janet Museveni, has launched a countrywide campaign to fight climate change and stop grabbing of school land. The campaign, an initiative of the government being implemented in collaboration with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), was launched at Teryet High Altitude Centre in Teryet cell, Kwoti ward, Kapchorwa Municipality, on Tuesday.