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By Emmanuel Onyango & Miriam Watsemba BBC News, Nairobi and Kampala This roadside rolex is a lot smaller than the world record breaker The world's largest rolex weighs 204.6kg (32st 3lb) and is 2.32m (10ft 6in) long. If you're struggling to imagine how that could fit on your wrist then forget the Swiss watch brand and think East African street food. As Ugandans have been known to say: "We don't wear Rolex, we eat them." Rolex - the snack - is a shortening of "rolled eggs". The popular dish, found at road-side stalls throughout the country, is made from a vegetable omelette with added tomatoes wrapped up in a chapati. It has already achieved some notoriety beyond Uganda but  recently Guinness World Records certified the world's largest rolex . The ingredients that went into the hefty dish included 1,200 eggs, 90kg of vegetables (onions, tomatoes, cabbages, carrots and peppers), 72kg of flour and 40kg of cooking oil. As you can imagine, this wasn...

New Zealand journalist Charlotte Bellis said she was unable to return to her home country to give birth New Zealand has defended its border controls after a pregnant journalist said she had to turn to the Taliban for help after not being able to fly home. Covid-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins said there was a place for "people with special circumstances" like Charlotte Bellis. Her story has cast a renewed spotlight on Wellington's tough border measures designed to keep out the coronavirus. Others took issue with her privileged relationship with the Taliban. The Taliban has been regularly criticised for brutally clamping down on women's rights by arresting, torturing and even killing activists and campaigners. What did Charlotte Bellis ask the Taliban? In a column written for the New Zealand Herald newspaper, Ms Bellis said the New Zealand government had last week rejected her application to return home to give birth. Currently, Wellington allows citizens and perma...

By Richard Agodzo The Executive director of Densu Associate, Dolores Dickson has urged students to venture into social entrepreneurship to help in national development. Speaking on the theme “Social Entrepreneurship”, Madam Dickson focused on explaining the concept and inspiring students’ creativity and outlooks to new possible methodologies to serving global development that is equitable, empowering and ethical.  Dolores Dickson addressing students' at the Forum Addressing the final year communication students of the African University College of Communications, she revealed that the youth of this generation seem to follow the trend of the purposeful motive in the establishment of a social enterprise and that is PROFIT. According to her, profit is secondary, but a natural result of social entrepreneurship. “Social entrepreneurs pursue value creation over value capture and thus are a viable pathway for both employment and social change” she said. “Becoming a social entrepreneur wil...