After years, in fact decades of operations against HIV/AIDS, where have we reached and what have we learned in efforts to prevent infection and curtail the impacts of HIV/AIDS on our communities? Gerald Businge writes that about the successes and challenges in Uganda and the need for fresh thinking in face of a growing HIV positive population and stagnant infection rates.
Independent Candidate, Erias Lukwago has been declared winner of the Kampala Mayoral elections held on Monday March 14th. The Kampala district returning officer Molly Mutazindwa declared Lukwago winner with 229,325 votes, representing 64% of the total votes cast. He was followed by National Resistance Movement flag bearer Peter Sematimba with 119,015 votes representing 33%. The […]
An intensive training for the small scale traders and medium manufacturers has started today at Lugogo Manufacturers show ground in Kampala. The training that is organized by the Private Sector Foundation Uganda is to train the small scale traders and medium manufacturers on how they can expand businesses, acquire loans from financial institutions and improve […]
The President of the People’s Development party Dr. Abed Bwanika has called for a national consultative conference between the ruling National Resistance Movement and other political parties that participated in the 2011 general elections. Bwanika says the results of the 2011 elections left a bitter taste in all opposition parties who complain of having […]
The Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) supporter and Chairperson elect Rubaga Division Joyce Sebugwawo has refuted police reports that she is training a stick wielding youth brigade. While talking to the media at Christ the King church in Kampala, Sebugwawo said that she is a lover of peace therefore she cannot indulge in violence […]
The Minister of Education and Sports, Namirembe Bitamazire has appealed for all stakeholders to improve learning of science subjects at all levels of education. Bitamazire says the doing and passing of science subjects by many students is critical for the development of the country as science spurs development. She was speaking Wednesday as […]
Google has today announced a $1.25 million grant to the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory, housed at the Nelson Mandela Foundation that will help to preserve and give unprecedented digital access to thousands of archival documents, photographs, and audio-visual materials about the life and times of Nelson Mandela. Based in Johannesburg, the Nelson Mandela Foundation […]
As technology continues to play a marked role in Uganda’s elections and politics, many Ugandans are currently in a rare happiness after receiving telephone calls from President Yoweri Museveni and sms messages from the president thanking them for voting him in the February 18th Presidential elections. In different parts of the country, people have […]
The former presidential candidate in the just concluded elections Retired Col. Dr. Kiiza Besigye Warren Kifife has been summoned by police to explain the elections irregularities he mentioned. After elections declaration by the Electoral Commission that announced Museveni the winner with 68.4% and Besigye with 26%, Besigye told the press conference that Museveni rigged […]
The United States has called upon the government of Uganda to undertake electoral and administrative reforms that will help improve future elections in Uganda. The US embassy in Kampala has issued a statement congratulating the people of Uganda for the elections exercise and President Yoweri Museveni for winning the Presidential elections. In their first reaction […]