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...Motorcycle taxis — called boda boda after the “border-to-border” rides between Uganda and Kenya — are the lifeblood of Uganda’s capital....
...She recommends Bodas’ Tactel underwire bra (£45, bodaslondon.com). “Their bras work well under shirts/tops without showing. They also produce perfect-fitting bras in cotton, which is hard to find....
...One day, torrential rains pooled in the potholed streets, preventing her boda boda motorbike taxi from taking her to church....
...RBC Capital Markets has hired Asif Boda as a managing director and head of European building products within its industrials franchise....
...We strike out on our mighty expedition on a day of rest, with processions sashaying to church in their Sunday best and young men washing their motorbikes (“boda-bodas”) in the rivers....
...Many girls live up to 15km away from their secondary school and so take a boda boda (a motorcycle taxi) to save a gruelling walk....
...Mr Collymore said he hoped to launch “Little Boda Boda” and “Little Tuktuk” services for motorcycle and rickshaw taxis that would be less expensive options than taxis....
...As with many of the sheer tops around, it requires a whole lot of attitude — or a little black camisole from, say, Bodas (£30) or Hanro (£29)....
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...Taxis and minibuses (“matatus”) are a favoured form of transport; “boda bodas” (motorbikes) help you jump the queues. What do locals say?...
...An internally displaced Muslim boy looks out of a house in the town of Boda in the Central African Republic...
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...Alecto bought Nubian Gold Exploration, which owns the Aysid-Metekel Gold Project, and made its first share-based payment on Rift Valley Resources, which owns the smaller Wayu Boda Gold Project....
...Ela Bodas Dear Ela, You are channelling the spirit of Gary Becker, winner of the Nobel memorial prize in economics for his application of economic reasoning to non-financial questions....
...Glass brand giants such as Orrefors and Kosta Boda have sought to make their products appealing to a customer base more likely to associate them with dull crystal tableware....
...When I left Sematimba’s radio station, his Kalashnikov-armed guards found me a boda boda – a motorbike taxi that is the best, if an insecure, way of travelling around the choked city....
...Scores of televisions were wheeled past on boda boda taxi bikes....
...The business has changed course from focusing on mail order and online sales and then Bodas shops to its current international expansion through department stores such as Saks, Barneys and Harvey Nichols...
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