The minister of state for health Dr. Chris Baryomunsi says 33875 Ugandans already screened for Hepatitis B and 3130 tested positive. He says that the 10 billion shillings provided is not enough compared to the magnitude of the disease, calling for additional funds towards scaling down Hepatitis B since there are 3 million people at risk […]
Parliament has demanded government explain the whereabouts of 10 billion shillings which was given to the Ministry of health to fight Hepatitis B. The directive was issued by the speaker of parliament Rebecca Kadaga while presiding over parliament sitting. This came after members of parliament have expressed concern over the increasing cases of Hepatitis B in the […]
The Speaker of Parliament, Rt. Hon. Rebecca Kadaga has directed the Town Clerk of Jinja Municipality to carry out a valuation of the land around the source of the River Nile. The Speaker issued the directive while meeting politicians and a technical team from Jinja Municipality on the delayed re-development of the area around the source […]
In a bid to canvas for massive votes to see that the ruling party retains power come 2016, the NRM has today unveiled a 68 man national campaign taskforce that will canvas for votes across the country and do re-branding of the party activities during this period. Addressing the media at the unveiling event today […]
A collection of Civil Society Organization , among them being, Global Rights Alert, Transparency International, and Action Aid International have launched a campaign to collect over 1000 signature to petition President Yoweri Museveni to become a member of Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) to be in position to make oil deals public. The petition fronted […]
Parliament undertakes to spearhead a campaign to ensure all workplaces have facilities that enable mothers to breastfeed. This will make mothers take care of their babies in order to uphold rights of children and also ensure efficiency. The speaker of parliament Rebecca Alitwala Kadaga says that if the campaign is successful, the country will have a […]
Civil society organizations under the Great Lakes region are concerned about the slow pace at which negotiations/ dialogue to bring back peace to Burundi are being handled with no signs of these to kick off despite the worrying situation in the country. Burundi went in turmoil early this year when president Pierre Nkurunziza announced he was […]
The National ID Registration Authority says that its stranded with many national identity cards at issuing centers for registered citizens. The Acting head National ID Registration Authority in charge of security and operations Col .Stephen Kwiringira while appearing before the parliamentary committee on legal says the Authority has printed 85% of the National Identity card and […]
Members of parliament on legal committee say that UPDF should either sit with the opposition or Independent, and still vote as they please. MPs who include Abdul Katuntu and Sam Otada say that the army MPs should be neutral even in their sitting in parliament instead of them being on the side of the ruling party. In […]
Following the signing of the universal declaration on social rights observation, the government of Uganda was obliged to start the implementation of these social and economic rights as a way of improving the lives of Ugandans with subject to period reviews to check on the progress by the members states. Tomorrow Uganda will be holding […]