The Executive Director of UNAIDS Michael Sidibe, has appealed to World Cup fans, soccer bodies, governments and all stakeholders involved in the HIV/AIDS fight to step up their efforts in ensuring HIV/AIDS testing and prevention among pregnant women. He says mother to child HIV/AIDS transmission rates will drop drastically if more mothers know their […]
The government of the Republic of Kenyan has been asked to launch an extensive investigation into two explosions in Nairobi that left five people dead and several injured during a political rally in Nairobi. The two explosions ripped through Uhuru Park in Kenya’s capital Nairobi on Sunday during a packed political rally killing five […]
The Judges in Uganda have asked Human rights defenders advocating for the abolition of the death penalty to petition Uganda Parliament to amend the law regarding death penalty rather than seeking the opinion of the Judges on this issue. The Judges revealed this on Monday during a round table discussion held in Kampala on sentencing […]
The Mayor of Kampala, Hajji Nasser Sebaggala has asked vendors at Nakasero market in Kampala to support him retain his post as city mayor. Sebaggala said this on Monday at Kampala City Council head quarters while awarding Nakasero market vendors a market lease for five years. He says that since the management and re-development of […]
The Paraguay national football team has given World Cup holders Italy something to think about by holding Italy to a 1-1 draw in a competitive Group F match played on Monday evening. The Defending Champions looked to be doing casual duty working for their usual slim wins. Italy begun as usual looking unimpressive but in […]
The Social Democratic Party has today joined the Inter party Coalition, a group of leading opposition political parties aimed at giving a joint challenge to President Yoweri Museveni’s National Resistance Movement in the 2011 general elections. SDP President Michael Mabikke who is the MP for Makindye East said his party had decided to support a […]
People doing business between Turkey and East Africa have a reason to be happy following the start of direct flights from Turkey to Uganda and Tanzania. Turkish Airlines announced on Monday it has started its new three-times-weekly non-stop service between Istanbul, Entebbe (Uganda) and Dar es Salaam (Tanzania). Speaking at a press conference after […]
President Yoweri Museveni has hailed King Solomon Gafabusa Iguru, the Omukama of Bunyoro Kitara for being a great traditional leader who has always remained respectful to the constitution of the Republic of Uganda and in line with the reasons and principles that restored the monarchies in the country. The President was yesterday addressing a mammoth […]
The Uganda Electoral Commission has extended the voter registration deadline to Friday June 19th to allow more Ugandan to register and be able to take part in the 2010 general elections. The Electoral Commission Chairman, Dr. Badru Kiggundu says the commission has decided to postpone the registration exercise following the hundreds of people who turned […]
The United Nation Development Programme has disassociated itself from a Ugandan drug dealer Anne Birungi Biraso that was nabbed trafficking drugs at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport recently. This comes after Biraso presented an identity card that showed her to be an employee of the UNDP. UNDP has said in a press statement that they […]