In a noble cause rarely seen on the African continent, the First Lady of Kenya, Margaret Gakuo Kenyatta, started the Beyond Zero campaign. This is a campaign that aims at improving access to maternal and child health outreach services throughout the country combining the fourth, fifth and sixth Millennium Development Goals. With the 2015 deadline […]
Mr Matthew Bukenya the Uganda National Examination Board (UNEB) Executive Secretary has this morning released the 2014 Advanced Level results. During the press conference held in the Ministry of Education boardroom a number of figures were supplied highlighting a lower registration and exam completion rate from the previous year. The reduced number of candidates […]
Mr. Lubowa Charles had hoped and prayed for this moment for a long time. On a cold and wet February morning, in an office at Mengo Chief Magistrates Court, in the west of Kampala, the words coming from the judge caused him to heave a great sigh of relief. Not given to emotional outbursts or […]
“Sometimes God closes a door and opens a gate.” This was the facebook status of Adi Kakande, sometime in March 2013, a month into her trip to her homeland Uganda, and about the time she decided she would be staying on. For the last three years she had lived in the United Kingdom (UK), first […]
On May 15th 1989 my mother, Resty Nakanwagi, passed from this life, leaving me and my older siblings motherless. A sadder detail is that she left a new born baby because she died in child birth. In my native toungue, Luganda, giving birth is refered to as a woman’s fight. How true that is! Fast […]
From the first time a child joins school, everyone’s hope and dream is that they make it to each final level class and graduate to the next. Many resources go into this endeavour; fees, tutorials, books, pencils, advice – everything needed to have a success story. This is not a one man job – there are relatives, […]