List of cut off points for Joint Admissions Board Public Universities Uganda 2010/2011 The Joint Admissions Board JAB released the cut off points for government sponsored courses in public universities. The Public Universities for which cut off points are released below include Kyambogo University (KYU), Makerere University (Mak), Busitema University (Bus), Gulu University (GU), Makerere […]
The Global Campaigns and Policy Advisor for OXFAM on HIV/AIDS, Beatrice Were has hailed the government of Uganda for ratifying the protocol on the rights of women in Africa thus becoming the 28th country to ratify the protocol. This comes hardly two days after Uganda ratified this protocol that aims at promoting women’s rights with […]
Civil Society Organizations operating in Africa have pledged to petition the African Union to promise that its various member countries will commit themselves to fighting reducing maternal health and not just talk about maternal health during this year’s summit that is taking place in Kampala and with a theme on maternal and child health. The […]
One of Africa’s most celebrated singers Yvonne Chaka Chaka will be in Uganda to join the rest of Africa in calling out to the African Leaders to commit to the pledges they made under the Abuja declaration in which African countries committed to have at least 15% of their national budgets committed to the health […]
The African Leadership Institute is to negotiate with the Judiciary in Uganda such that it can be allowed to assess the performance of the judges and magistrates in the country. This comes after AFLI released a partial report of its third Parliamentary scorecard assessment that has shown improved performance of Uganda’s legislators in the latest […]
Uganda members of Parliament registered improved performance in the 2009 Parliamentary score card assessment of the African Leadership Institute according to partial report of the scorecard assessment released Friday. African Leadership Institute annually assesses the performance of the Members of Parliament though by publishing the Parliamentary scorecard which rates every MP’s performance. While launching the […]
According to the National Service Delivery Survey, 80% of the pupils in Uganda travel 3kms to their schools. The survey says a good number of pupils are forced to drop out of school just because they are discouraged by the long distances they have to travel to their respective schools. The survey also gives primary […]
Among the cases of rape reported in the media in 2009, none of those cases of rape occurred in Northern Uganda according to report prepared by Action aid and UWONET. The report named the Synopsis of Sexual and Gender Based Violence in the Print Media profiles the different incidents of gender based violence that was […]
Save the Children in Uganda an international child rights Non Governmental Organization has that the greatest decline in levels of maternal mortality around Africa occurred in countries with a high political commitment towards the fight against maternal mortality. Some of the countries that registered a remarkable improvement in reducing the rates of maternal mortality include […]
The National Resistance Movement (NRM) government has elected its party grass roots leaders this Friday in different parts of the country. The Secretary General of NRM, Amama Mbabazi says elections have kicked off in time at different poling centers country wide. He says the few discrepancies that have been reported at different poling centers are […]