The government of Uganda has launched the national employment policy to streamline the government objectives and processes for generating jobs and ensuring better employment environment for workers. The policy is intended to protect the rights and promoting the working conditions of workers. The long a waited policy was launched as the country commemorated the world […]
Women members of parliament under the Net work of African women ministers and parliamentarians Uganda chapter have demanded to meet president Museveni over the inadequate maternal heath funding. The chairperson of the Net work of African women ministers and parliamentarians Uganda chapter Sarah Nyombi made the demand while launching a five year strategic plan on […]
The Uganda Police has said it will not allow the opposition to hold a rally at the Constitutional Square on Monday. The opposition parties had earlier announced they will hold a rally at the Constitutional Square in the heart of Kampala after their scheduled walk to work protest on Monday. Democratic party President […]
The government of Uganda is continuing to receive more pressure from different circles over police’s brutal treatment of walk to work protesters over the past three weeks. Women activists in Uganda are on Monday holding a protest march against what they call excessive use of force that has resulted in death on people who were […]
Lawyers in Uganda under the Uganda Law Society have this ended their three day sit down strike protesting abuse of the law by police and other security agencies. This followed ugly incidents in which police brutally arrested opposition leader Dr. Kizza Besigye as he drove to town. The big eyed colonel had just returned from […]
Members of Parliament are looking for a way forward in a bid to finding a solution to the impasse that is currently being experienced in the country. Initially at the start of the Session, the Government presented a video footage that showed and depicted Dr Kiiza Besigye wielding a hammer and later spraying pepper to […]
Members of Parliament from the ruling national Resistance Movement party have rejected a demand by the opposition mps to have police officer Arinaitwe Gilbert and Kampala metropolitan regional police commander Kampala Grace Turyagumanawe to be prosecuted for their action during the violent arrest of Forum for Democrat Change President, Dr. Kizza Besigye. The NRM side […]
Renowned anti-gay activist Pastor Martin Sempa has appealed to the Parliamentary legal affairs Committee to expeditiously pass the Anti- Homosexuality bill. During his submission to the Committee on Legal and Parliamentary Affairs, Sempa says that they agreed under the Uganda Joint Christian Council to remove the death penalty from the bill because it was not […]
The committee on Legal and Parliamentary Affairs has started conducting public hearings on the anti-homosexuality bill. According to the committee chairperson, Stephen Tashobya the bill has generated a lot of interests from the public and the members of parliament and that’s why they have decided to give it time before the 8th Parliament ends its […]
The speaker of parliament Edward Sekandi was forced to order the security minister Amama mbabazi out of the house this morning because of not observing the dress code . This was after the opposition chief whip Kassiano Wadri kasiano moved a point of order complaining of mbabazi’s dressing. Mbabazi was dressed in a kitengi with […]