Journalists in Uganda will no longer be charged under the law of sedition. The Constitutional Court on Wednesday declared the law on sedition null and void arguing that it abuses freedom of expression and can be wrongly applied to anyone at any time. This followed a petition by journalist Andrew Mwenda heled by the East […]
The Uganda Electoral Commission (EC) is launching the online voter register this Wednesday August 25th at Africana Hotel. The online register is a result of support by the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES) to the Uganda Electoral Commission, and the project is supported by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). According to […]
The Civil Society has appealed to the Ministry of Water and Environment in Uganda to improve its capacity to provide bulk water supply to areas that are water stressed. According to a report of the Civil Society Budget Advocacy Group, though 66% of rural populations and 86% of the urban populations have access to safe […]
The East African Internet Governance Forum has appealed to all East African Countries to ratify the United Nations Convention on Law of the Sea. The Convention provides for the rights of landlocked countries to have full access to sea services and also fiber optic technology that is transmitted through the sea. The Coordinator of I […]
A renowned scientists and Director of Avian Influenza and other Emerging threats Program at USAID Washington, Dr. Dennis Carol has proposed that the world should adopt risk based models to be able to fight the emerging threat of animal to human transmission of diseases as opposed to the traditional disease surveillance model of fighting disease. […]
St Julian High School, Gayaza has beaten other beaten 12 other schools to scoop the 2010 National Secondary Schools Music, Dance and Drama Competitions that took place at Kitante Primary School and the National Theatre for two days. The Schools that participated in the competition include St Julian High School plus Buddo Secondary School, Bweranyangi Girls […]
Food shortages are reported in different parts of Uganda year in year out. But the government has always insisted that Uganda is not food insecure, arguing that while some regions have food shortages due to drought and other reasons, many other regions in the country have surplus food. As a solution to this anomaly, the […]
The role of information and communication technologies in development will further be underscored by the recent improvement of internet services and the decrease in internet access fees in Uganda. According to MTN Uganda Chief Executive Officer, Themba Khumalo, the decrease in costs of internet access is going to lead to economic improvements at the individual, […]
Makerere University has announced that in the next semester that begins later in August Makerere University will have 99% of its undergraduate courses taught by full time staff. This comes a few months after Makerere decided to dismiss most of the part time lecturers as a move to enhance the teaching standards of the University. […]
Uganda’s Constitutional Court on Thursday declared the practice of female circumcision also known as Female Genital Mutilation as unconstitutional, contending that it abuses the fundamental rights of women. In a ruling that would have been declared as landmark one had the parliament of Uganda not passed a law banning FGM recently, the five justices of […]