Many participants seemed to agree that bride practice culture has become extremely commercialized with parents looking at their daughters as monetary reserves. Some parents are choosing to marry daughters off as young as 14 or to demand the highest price they can name, whether in terms of cows or money.
In one way or another, all human beings are always working or looking for success. Some achieve it while others don’t. Many people look at success as chance or luck. For those who believe entirely that success is luck normally think their future is uncertain. This uncertainty sometimes drives some people` into doing many things […]
Organic agriculture is spreading throughout the world and yet some fear that this is putting the food security of African small-holder farmers at risk. This concern was studied carefully by the Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS) using data generated from a survey of 224 smallholder farmers producing coffee and pineapples. The results indicated that […]
Government has defended the conduct of the police in quelling the walk to work protest as responsible and normal. The internal affairs minister Kirunda Kivejinja says the forces have all time used appropriate force when dealing with protestors. Opposition politicians and some human rights activists have on several occasions accused the police force as being […]
Four Ugandans are among the 27 finalists from 13 countries announced for the CNN Multichoice African Journalist of the year 2011 award. Norman Katende, of The New Vision, Farouk Kayondo, of UBC, Nigel M. Nassar, of The New Vision, and Benon Herbert Oluka, of Sunday Monitor are among the finalists announced today by Joel Kibazo, […]
Members of parliament on the committee of Defense and Internal Affairs are demanding for the resetting up of a rehabilitation Centre for drug addicts. The committee vice chairperson Milton Muhuma says the arrest and penalizing of those found abusing drugs is not enough in eliminating drug abuse in the country. Muhuma says there is need […]
The United Nations Human Rights Center in Uganda has demanded the immediate release of opposition activists arrested and detained while walking to work on Monday. The Director of the Centre, Margaret Sekaggya, a former Chairperson of the Uganda Human Rights Commission says it is the right of every Ugandan walk to any place that they […]
The President of the Democratic Party Nobert Mao will spend the Easter holiday in jail after he was arrested today outside his home for planning to walk to his place of work in the city centre. Mao was charged before the KCC Magistrate’s court with two counts assaulting one Moses Birigwa and inciting violence. Grade […]
Uganda on Monday witnessed another round of riots following the arrest of opposition leaders who engaged in a walk to work protest. The government had warned the opposition against the protests but opposition leaders went ahead with the planned Monday and Thursday protests against the high inflation in Uganda that has seen a huge increase […]
As riots over the increase in prices of food and other commodities in Uganda intensify, a student at Makerere University has committed suicide allegedly over failure to afford basic necessities of life. Francis Xavier Kigeni, a 3rd year student of Social Sciences reportedly jumped to his death on Monday as the police and army battled […]