Feature: China helps bridge digital divide in rural Uganda World


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by Ronald Ssekandi ENTEBBE, Uganda, Sept. 17 (Xinhua) -- The Bwerenga village, on the shores of Lake Victoria in central Uganda, is one of the latest villages in the East African country to be connected to the world via digital satellite television. The village, which receives a poor television signal, is part of a project that China promised at the 2015 Forum on China-Africa Cooperation in Johannesburg, South Africa, to connect 10,000 African villages to satellite TV. Justine Akalei's family in Bwerenga is one of the beneficiaries of the project that is now in its second phase in Uganda where...