The 4th Commonwealth Youth Parliament which took in Kampala passed five motions that they were debating over. The Leader of the House, Hon. David Milambe (Malawi), who read the motions on Tuesday, 17th April 2018, said the resolutions would be presented for adoption in the next Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (Africa Region) Annual General Meeting. Milambe […]
Members of Parliament have tasked officials from National Forestry Authority (NFA) to explain the circumstances leading to the reduced forest cover and rampant deforestation in the country. Officials from the NFA led by the acting Executive Director Paul Musamali were meeting MPs on the Natural Resources Committee now considering the Ministerial Policy Statement for financial […]
The Inspector General of Police, Martin Okoth Ochola, has assured Ugandans that the security situation in the country is peaceful. Ochola, appearing before the Committee on Defense and Internal Affairs on Thursday, 19 April, 2018 said that the only challenge they face and which they are addressing, are pockets of criminality in the Kampala Metropolitan […]
Makerere University administration has suspended one of its senior staff for allegedly sexually harassing a female student in the latest sex scandal to hit the country’s oldest public university. The university administration identified the offender as Edward Kisuze, an administrative assistant in the Department of the Academic Registrar. This follows a picture that circulated on […]
Delegates attending the 4th Youth Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (African region) Youth Parliament taking place Kampala, Uganda have called for strengthening of laws aimed at curbing alcoholism and drug abuse across Africa. During a sitting chaired by Deputy Speaker Mary Namaya(Malawi) a number of delegates said that many of the reasons youth engage in substance abuse […]
African youths have asked governments to take serious action on the increasing teenage pregnancies and HIV/AIDs infection rates among young people. This was during the ongoing 4th Commonwealth Youth Parliament taking place in Kampala, Uganda where the young leaders blamed the increasing teenage pregnancies and HIV/AIDs infection rates among young people on poverty, lack of government […]
Parliamentary Commissioner and Dokolo Woman MP, Cecilia Atim Ogwal, has asked African youth to reject foreign cultures and traditions including homosexuality as they prepare to take up leadership positions on the continent. Speaking at the opening of the 4th Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (Africa Region) Youth Parliament held at Hotel Africana in Kampala, Hon. Ogwal warned […]
District and Divisional Police Commander are uncertain on how to enforce a directive to confiscate camouflage attire similar to that of the army and police from the public. Asuman Mugenyi, the Director of Operations Uganda Police Force directed District and District Police Commanders to confiscate all camouflage clothes that resemble any military or police […]
The establishment of a Financial Intelligence Authority and a Financial Intelligence Authority Board Under the Anti-Money Laundering Act, 2013 is for the prohibition and prevention of money laundering, in order to combat money laundering activities; to impose certain duties on institutions and other persons, businesses and professions who might be used for money laundering purposes; […]
Uganda plans to slap a new tax on social media users from July to raise revenue, which human rights activists denounced as another attempt by President Yoweri Museveni to stifle freedom of expression and quash dissent to his 32-year-rule. The move is unlikely to go down well in a country where more than 40 […]