Leveraging Business for Social Change: Building the Field of Social Business

Artemisia and Ashoka’s Changemakers believe social business is a powerful engine for serving vulnerable and low-income communities by delivering the critical goods and services they need to improve their lives and lift themselves from poverty. We invite you to help build the emerging field of social business by submitting social business models that most successfully […]

Makekerere cancels NRM Victory in Guild Elections, Calls for fresh voting, reinstate DP candidate

Ultimate Media The Makerere University Elections Tribunal has declared null and void the election victory of John Teira, the National Resistance Movement party candidate in the Makerere Guild race. The committee in a statement signed by its Chairperson, Christine Kiganda ruled on the petition that was filed after the March 23rd elections that there were […]

The Imperial College London Master and PhD Scholarships for Overseas Applicants 2010

The Imperial College London offers The Imperial College Student Opportunities Fund for the year 2010/11 to Overseas Students in UK The Department of Engineering, Natural Sciences and Medicine is pleased to announce the Imperial College Student Opportunities Fund for the 2010/11 session. There is no separate application form for this scholarship. We will use your […]

Three summoned over Kasubi Tombs

Ultimate Media Police in Fort Portal has summoned three Tooro Human Rights activists to answer charges of sedition over statements made on Beta FM – a local FM station based in Fort Portal regarding the burning of Kasubi tombs and the death of former Defense Ministry permanent Secretary, Brig. Noble Mayombo. The three who are […]

Sudan assists Uganda to crash LRA rebels

By Walakira Nyanzi, Ultimate Media Abelrahim El-Siddig, the Deputy Head of Mission of the Sudan Embassy in Kampala has assured Ugandans that Khartoum is a partner in the fight against LRA rebels. He says his government (Sudan) has been assisting Uganda Peoples Defence Forces in the fight against LRA rebels headed by Joseph Kony since […]

Man who confessed burning Kasubi tombs mad-sister

  Ultimate Media A man who walked to Kampala Central Police Station and confessed setting ablaze the renowned Kasubi Tombs is mad.    The inferno that burnt Kasubi tombs on March 16th, 2010 sparked an emotional outcry around the country with some people alleging that the inferno was engineered by the central government. Nalongo Namiiro, […]

Uganda’s inflation falls

   Ultimate Media The Uganda Bureau of Statistics has said today in Kampala that the country’s headline inflation rate decreased to 7.5 % in March 2010 from 8.1% in February 2010 due fall in food prices.   The latest report by the Uganda Bureau of Statistics indicates that in the month of March, the food […]

Rakai man killed in Market

  Ultimate Media Unidentified criminals have killed a man in Kabonera, Rakai district. Frank Kasozi was killed on his way back home from Kabonera market where he was coming to buy bananas. The area residents claim Kasozi was murdered over land wrangles. The body of Kasozi was discovered along the road by pupils going to […]

Days of ruling Uganda with guns over -Mao

   By Walakira Nyanzi, Ultimate Media The President General of the opposition Democratic Party (DP), Norbert Mao has declared that the days of ruling Uganda with guns are over. “I saw President Museveni in Bududa recently carrying a karishinikov 47, may be he was thinking that landslides were rebels,” Mao, who is also the LCV […]