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| The Ugandan government has allocated $800m (£625m) to promote and teach the Kiswahili language in the country, as part of efforts to foster regional integration. | |
| Civil servants including doctors, nurses and border workers will be given priority in the yet to be unveiled Kiswahili training programme, Uganda's Minister for East African Affairs Rebecca Kadaga said. | |
| The minister did not give further details on when and how the training programme will be unveiled. | |
| As part of the efforts to popularise the language in the country, Ms Kadaga said all senior government officials, including cabinet ministers and judges, were taking compulsory weekly lessons. | |
| In July 2022, the Uganda government approved the adoption of Kiswahili as an official language and directed that it be made a compulsory subject in primary and secondary schools. | |
| But the language is currently taught in a few secondary schools in the country. | |
| About 200 million people speak Kiswahili in the world and in 2021, the language received its biggest boost when the UN designated 7 July as World Kiswahili Language Day. | |
| It is also the official language of the East African regional bloc, the EAC. | |
| In 2019, Kiswahili became the only African language to be recognised by the Southern African Development Community (Sadc). | |
| There are also efforts to introduce it in classrooms across South Africa and Botswana. | |
| Read more on the spread of Kiswahili: | |
| Swahili's bid to become a language for all of Africa | |
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