The biggest number of cases of maternal deaths in Uganda occurs as a result of hemorrhage (acute bleeding during delivery). According to a policy brief of the Uganda Women’s network, excessive bleeding is responsible for 26% of the maternal deaths in Uganda. UWONET says Sepsis (infections) cause 22% of the maternal deaths , while13% of […]
The UK Department for International Development has urged Ugandan that return from the Diaspora to invest in Northern Uganda since the north has enormous investment opportunities that such people may want to take up. While speaking to journalists in Kampala, the Head of Office DFID Uganda Jane Rintsul said that in May 2010, when DFID […]
After relatively successful pilot schemes of provision of Pro bono services, the Uganda Law Society together with the Law Council has now moved to roll out a national pro bono scheme that will involve all advocates as part of their mandate to promote access to justice. The President of the Uganda Law Society Bruce Kyerere […]
The Civil Society Budget Advocacy Group has urged the government of Uganda to develop an investment plan for agriculture in order to increase the government budget allocations to the agricultural sector. Whereas agriculture is a major sector of Uganda’s economy with the National Service Delivery Survey revealing that two thirds of Uganda’s population that is […]
Uganda will become the first African Country to host the International Conference on Agricultural Statistics when it hosts the 5th ICAS conference between 13th and 15TH October 2010 at Speke Resort Munyonyo. The National Coordinator of the conference, James Mubiru has told journalists at the Statistics house that the conference will bring together researchers and […]
A delegation of members of Uganda’s parliament led by the chief whip of the opposition, Kasiano Wadri has agreed to foster more cooperation with India’s legislative bodies. The Uganda delegation who on Friday ended their study tour in India met with the Indian Minister of Parliamentary Affairs Sh. Pawan Kumar Bansal on Thursday. According to […]
Lawyers in Uganda that fail to provide free pro bono ( free) legal services as required by the law council will face heavy punishments from the Law Council including not being issued with practicing certificates for the following calendar year, the Law Council has said. In a speech made to participants in a workshop on provision […]
The Inspector General of Government Rapheal Baku is blaming his failure to catch the big fish in the fight against corruption on inadequate resources. The IGG has often been accused of targeting the lower level officials in government while the higher ranking officials, who take even more of the tax payers’ money in corrupt practices […]
DFID has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the government for a grant of over 50 billion shillings to finance programmes under the Peace Recovery and Development Plan that that are aimed at reconstructing Northern Uganda. The Memorandum of Understanding has been signed by Pius Bigirimana the Permanent Secretary of the Prime Ministers and the […]
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 […]