By Gerald Businge on January 27, 2020
Constitution, Constitutional Court, Dutch women-led organisation in Bulange Zone A, Gulu and Lira.Dutch women-led organisation in Bulange Zone A, Hon. Robert Kyagulanyi (Kyadondo East MP), human rights defenders, human rights lawyer Mr. Eron Kizza, kampala, Makerere University students protest, Media Crimes Division, Minister of Internal Affairs Hon. Obiga Mario Kania, National Coalition of Human Rights Defenders in Uganda, NGO, Public Management Order Act, Rubaga, the Act, uganda police force
Latest Uganda News
The National Coalition of Human Rights Defenders in Uganda (NCHRD-U) has expressed concern over the escalation of human rights violations across 2019, specifically targeting Human Rights Defenders (HRDs). As we start the New Year – and a new decade – we wish to reflect on major incidents that shaped the year, available opportunities, and issue […]
By Agnes Tumuheire on August 28, 2018
Boda Boda 2010 members led by jailed Abdallah Kitatta, Gen Kale Kayihura, General Court Martial Lt Gen Andrew Gutti, kampala, ormer Inspector General of Police (IGP), Wakiso district
Latest Uganda News, Politics & Governance
General Court Martial Lt Gen Andrew Gutti has granted bail to Former Inspector General of Police (IGP), Gen Kale Kayihura in a court sitting in Makindye, Kampala. However,Lt Gen Gutti, restricted him not travel beyond Kampala and Wakiso districts. According to the chairman of the court,Lt Gen Gutti, the bail was based upon the bail application […]
By Emma Laura N. Kisa on May 10, 2018
Cholera, kampala, ministry of health, outbreak
Environment issues, Health, Latest Uganda News, Press Release
The Ministry of Health sent out a press release informing the general public of a cholera outbreak in parts of Kampala city. Contaminated water and the lack of toilets have been cited as the cause of the outbreak. Press Release – Cholera in Kampala by Emma Laura Kisa on Scribd
By Gerald Businge on August 25, 2017
and a TB Principal Researcher at Makerere University, Dr Bruce Kirenga, kampala, Ministry of Health National TB and Leprosy Program Manager Dr. Frank Mugambe, Uganda National Population Based Tuberculosis Prevalence Survey
Health, Latest Uganda News
Government has released the 2014-2016 Uganda National Population Based Tuberculosis Prevalence Survey showing 89,000 people get infected with TB every year. While presenting the report in Kampala, Dr Bruce Kirenga, and a TB Principal Researcher at Makerere University says the current disease burden is higher than previously with 253 per 100,000 people affected compared to […]
By Shillar Nakayemba on August 16, 2017
Ggaba landing site, kampala, Kampala Capita City Authority (KCCA)., Kasagama John, Lake Victoria shores, Makindye division, Youths
Environment issues, Latest Uganda News
Kasagama John a resident at Ggaba landing site in Makindye division on the Lake Victoria shores says he was a fisher man before he started carrying out sand mining. Fishing as an activity was so competitive yet there was inadequate fish in the lake. This led to little earnings which couldn’t sustain his family, says. […]
By Isaac Senabulya on August 11, 2017
Health Minister Dr. Jane Ruth Aceng, kampala, ministry of health, outbreak of measles, Wakiso districts
Health, Latest Uganda News
The Ministry of Health on Wednesday confirmed the outbreak of measles in Kampala and Wakiso districts. Health Minister Dr. Jane Ruth Aceng says that their surveillance and case findings indicates that a total of 67 cases so far been identified and of these, seven have been confirmed by the laboratory tests within the month of July. Measles is an airborne disease that […]
By Isaac Senabulya on April 21, 2017
aid funded projects and industries in the radius of 50 from the Kampala as a way of decongesting the city, and also restructure the betting taxes, David Bahati, kampala, landlords, new tax proposal to betting and lottery., operations of Bujagali power dam up to 2033 which will reduce in power tariffs, Parliamentary Finance Committee, presenting proposed tax amendments for the next financial year 2017/2018, six proposed tax amendment bills, State minister for planning, taxes on Tobacco, unprocessed rice for four months
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The government is to start regulating rental fees in Kampala starting next financial year 2017/18 as a way of ensuring that landlords who often dodge taxes are checked. The proposal has been made by government, state minister for planning, David Bahati, before the Parliamentary Finance Committee recently. Bahati who was presenting proposed tax amendments for […]
By Isaac Senabulya on September 6, 2016
annual reviews, assessment of government performance report for the financial year 2015-2016, corporation boss, funded projects under theme: Realising results on public finance I investment, kampala, Kawempe and Naguru., Mukono, National Water and Sewerage Corporation is in advance stages of kick starting a mult-billion project of 160 million liters of water running from Katosi to Kampala through Mukono, opportunities and challenges, Prime Minister, Ruhakana Rugunda, Sonde, sustainable development goals by 2040 and clean water availability being among them, Sylver Mugisha
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Prime Minister, Ruhakana Rugunda has said government departments must base their strength on the execution of work on the evidence based funds. While opening a five day retreat for the assessment of government performance report for the financial year 2015-2016, the Prime Minister Dr. Ruhakana Rugunda on behalf of the vice president underscored the need […]
By Isaac Senabulya on July 24, 2016
Atwib Katoto, Dr. Kizza Besigye, General Kale Kayihura., High court, Internal Affairs Minister, kampala, Members of Parliament, Muhammad Muwanga Kivumbi, Obiga Kanya, Wilfred Nuwagaba
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Members of Parliament have warned the Inspector General of Police against issuing directives outside the law saying such an act is likely to bring back the brutality experienced in the by former presidents Milton Obote and Iddi Amin’s regimes. In a motion moved by the opposition shadow minister for Internal Affairs, Mohammed Muwanga Kivumbi, the […]
By Gerald Businge on June 24, 2016
Ambassador Einar Gunnarsson, Armed conflicts, Criminalization of acts of aggression, Iceland, Iceland`s Instrument of Ratification of the Amendments to the Rome Statute, International Criminal Court (ICC), International legal framework, international peace and security and the territorial integrity and political independence of States, kampala, Lawmakers, New York, Paliamentarians for Global Action (PGA), Permanent Representative of Iceland to the United Nations, rule of law, United Nations, Unlawful use of force International relations, Weapons
Africa, Latest Uganda News, Laws, Press Release, Regional, Security
On 17 June 2016, Ambassador Einar Gunnarsson, Permanent Representative of Iceland to the United Nations, deposited at the United Nations in New York the Iceland`s Instrument of Ratification of the Amendments to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC), adopted in Kampala in 2010. Iceland thereby accepted to bind its nationals and territory […]
