With climate change still a major global challenge pausing threats to the eco-systems and natural resources that support livelihoods on the earth, Uganda, after the December Paris climate change meeting, has finally ratified the Paris agreement under the UN framework convention on climate change which now compels Uganda to re-commit herself to the global efforts […]
The private sector and business community have tasked the East African legislative Assembly to engage the two heads of state from Kenya and Uganda to resolve on the issue of exporting Ugandan sugar to Kenya. The private sector and business community represented by the members of the Uganda Manufacturer Association, Uganda Bureau of standards and Uganda […]
Health experts and educationists in Uganda have raised serious concerns over the faster rate at which sickle cell disease is growing in the country but with great fear that little has been done by the ministry to have a lasting solution to the burden leaving 80% of the newborns dying before they make their fifth […]
The dean of the school of women and gender issues at Makerere university, Prof. Josephine Ahikire is called for student engagement in the fight against education sexualization at the country’s highest and oldest education institution. In a symposium held at the women and gender school at Makerere, Prof. Ahikire said a well structured system to handle issues of […]
KENYA: The National Coalition of Human Rights Defenders – Kenya (NCHRD-K) and DefendDefenders (East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Project) are outraged by the killing of human rights defender John Waweru on Monday 11 April 2016 in Zimmerman, Nairobi. John Waweru was the director of Githunguri Constituency Ranching Company and an avid and […]
The Inspector General of Government has created a special investigation unit with specialized investigators who will deal with handling urgent complicated corruption cases and recoveries. This was disclosed by the IGG Justice Irene Mulyagonja while appearing before the legal and parliamentary Affairs committee chaired by Stephen Tashobya to defend the Directorates budget of 40 billion shillings. […]
Environment experts reveal that water scarcity affects about 40% of the world’s population and is bound to worsen as a result of climate change. The board chairman National Forestry Authority Gershom Onyango is concerned that the world is not treating the gravity of water crisis as seriously and calls on government to ensure the effective management […]
UCHUMI suppliers are to file an objection in the high court against the bankruptcy claims by Uchumi supermarket that it can not pay them for their supplies. This follows the several meetings between the government of Uganda and Kenya (mother country of Uchumi) representatives from ministry of trade where they agreed that Uchumi withdraws its filing […]
Jean-Pierre Bemba, DR Congo ex-warlord was found guilty yesterday in a landmark ICC trial which spanned six years. The conviction of Congolese militia leader was said by the global civil society to be a victory for accountability for high ranking leaders and eradication of rape as a weapon of war. This follows the call of arrest for Sudan’s Omar […]
The Uganda National Population and Housing Census (UNPHC) are set to announce the final Census results for 2014 on 24th March 2016. The Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS) Spokesperson Godfrey Nyabong says that they are to give the final figure for 2014 population census and the estimated number for According to the provisional census results released […]