A view of Chobe Lodge, overlooking the Nile. Hotels now have a chance to tap into a bigger market AS Uganda’s rating as tourism destination goes up, hotels have a chance to tap into a bigger market of world travellers. This follows teaming up of the world’s largest online travel company, Expedia, Inc and Africa’s Great Explorations (A.G.E Safaris), an East African tour and travel company. The two companies ...

Over 80,000 enumerators were to be recruited before July to move from house to house. With the postponement of the enumeration process of the country’s national census, more than 80,000 Ugandans have lost out on employment. Over 80,000 enumerators were to be recruited before July to move from house to house. Each of them was supposed to cover 60 to 70 households. In addition, 13,000 supervisors were due to ...

Media reports say Pakistan plans to test-fire a short-range ballistic missile capable of delivering nuclear and conventional warheads. The nuclear-capable missile has an effective operation range of up to 110 miles and is capable of being armed with both nuclear and conventional high-explosive warheads. The new ballistic missile--dubbed as Nasr-- is a Battlefield Range Ballistic Missile (BRBM) that uses the ...

Seven people have faced serious charges including masterminding acts of terrorism in two courts in Northern Ireland, local media reported. The courts’ proceedings come after one of the biggest security operations involving MI5 and police against republican paramilitaries since the IRA's 1994 ceasefire. In one court case in Omagh it was claimed on Saturday that four alleged dissident republicans were linked ...

Bilawal will be visiting New York and Washington DC. CHICAGO: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) co-chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari is due to visit Washington DC and New York this week, in his first official visit to the country since 2009.   A source confirmed this development saying that Bilawal would be arriving in New York on May 21 to attend the Peabody Awards, wherein the documentary “Bhutto” is one o ...

Iran's Navy has foiled a pirate attack on a Filipino-owned bulk carrier with 23 crew members on-board off the coast of Oman in the Arabian Sea. The Norway-flagged MV Rosita came under attack on Sunday when a number of armed people on-board several skiffs approached the ship at high speed. The Iranian warships patrolling the area rushed to assist the cargo vessel upon its distress call, which reported an una ...

One of the single leading ladies in Bollywood, Bipasha Basu is eager to see which hero she is romantically linked to next. She was reported to be dating actor Rana Daggubati after breaking up with John Abraham, and at a recent event, she was spotted chatting and laughing with Shahid Kapoor, sparking off rumours that the two were doing more than just exchanging pleasantries. “As long as it is someone cute an ...

Austria’s Defense Minister Norbert Darabos says Israel seeks to distract attention from its domestic social problems through creating hype over Iran’s nuclear energy program. Pointing to the fact that Iran’s nuclear energy program is not diverted toward building nuclear weapons, Darabos described Israel’s “threats” against Iran as “unnecessary.” The Austrian defense minister said Tel Aviv is using inflated ...

Men who are “too nice” to their other half spark fears that they are cheating, a new study has found. Researchers of the study that two thirds of women become suspicious if their partner suddenly has “new tricks” in the bedroom, makes grand romantic gestures or even if he makes them breakfast in bed. Other triggers for suspicion amongst mistrusting wives and girlfriends are if their man treats them to jewel ...

People hold a banner reading "we don't want to be a missile shield in Kurecik," demonstrating against the deployment of NATO early warning radar system in Turkey in October 2011 A Turkish opposition lawmaker has said the principal reason for the deployment of NATO’s missile system in Turkey is to protect the Israeli regime. Turkish People’s Republican Party (CHP) representative to the parliament from the Ma ...