The Uganda opposition Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) party secretary for Women affairs Abooki Nyakato has appealed for quick investigations in cases involving the Uganda Inter-party cooperation (IPC) women league activist to enable them continue to carry out their activities. Nyakato who has been involved in an all women demonstrations aimed at disbanding the Uganda […]
Makerere University science don Izael Pereira Da Silva has appealed to the Uganda government to consider investing in creating awareness for science projects to enable the grassroot people use them to improve their livelihoods. Da Silva who is also the Makerere University Director of the Centre for Research in Energy and Energy Conservation called for […]
A study has found that Ugandan children living near Kiteezi landfill in Kampala are at high risk development and intellectual impairment because of exposure to lead metals. The Kiteezi landfill is known to contain high levels of lead and other heavy metals which are dumped there. The research evaluated 163 children aged four to eight […]
Scientists have indicated that the continuous warming of Africa’s deepest Lake Tanganyika threatens the livelihoods of millions of people who depend on it for food and employment because it reduces the fish populations. Over a million people in Tanzania, Zambia, DR Congo and Burundi directly depend on Lake Tanganyika for employment and food. The Lake […]
Members of Uganda Parliament have demanded for an explanation from government regarding the cutting down of trees planted during the preparation of the Common Wealth Heads of Government Meeting along Entebbe road. The Shadow Minister for Environment Beatrice Anywar told Parliament that cutting down the trees is a misuse of taxpayers’ money because funds were allocated to plant the […]
The Anti corruption Court in Kampala today has sentenced the former Chief Engineer in the Ministry of Works and Transport, Samson Bagonza to three years in jail for causing financial loss to the government of Uganda in 2007 and another two more years for abuse of abuse. It is however not yet clear whether Bagonza […]
The Uganda Parliamentary Committee on Social Services has directed all Uganda districts to purchase at least 70% of their drugs from the government controlled National Medical Stores (NMS) as opposed to buying them from private drug companies. The Member of Parliament for Bunya West, also a member of the committee Aggrey Henry Bagiire told journalists at […]
The Uganda Parliamentary Committee on Foreign Affairs has urged the Uganda Ministry of Foreign Affairs to come up with manageable budgets for international summits. The current budget of the AU summit stretches to about 12 billion Uganda shillings. Uganda Parliament recently called for the review of the AU summit before passing additional 5.6 billion shillings. […]
The controversy sounding the preparation of 2011 Uganda general elections in seems not to end soon after the petitioning of the Uganda Electoral Commission (EC) in court to extend the voter registration exercise by three Ugandans. The Uganda voter’s registration exercise which started on May 3rd and ended on the 18th of June 2010 was […]
The Uganda Medicines and health services delivery monitoring unit has today (29th June 2010) discovered 10 ghost health centers in Uganda capital city of Kampala. The director of the unit, Dr. Diana Atwine says the centers have been used to divert medicine meant to be delivered to the government owned hospitals and health centers. Addressing members […]