By Gerald Businge on May 23, 2011
Latest Uganda News
President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni is expected to attend the extra ordinary session of Heads of state and government of Africa Union in Addis Ababa Ethiopia this Wednesday on 25h May 2011. A statement issued by the African Union information department in Addis Ababa says the session will be devoted to the consideration on the state […]
By Gerald Businge on November 15, 2010
Africa internet presence, African Union Commission, Branding Africa online
ICTs, news & events, Public Platform
The Headquarters of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), Addis-Ababa, Ethiopia was the venue of a two days Experts’ meeting on .Africa gTLD project. This project aims at branding the African continent on the cyberspace and providing African community with a continental mark on the Internet. The meeting was organized by the African […]
By Gerald Businge on July 29, 2010
Africa leaders discuss maternal infant health, cheaper ways of health service delivery, Uganda President Yoweri Museveni
Health, Latest Uganda News
President Yoweri Museveni has urged all African Heads of State and government to adopt multiple and cheaper ways of health services in solving the challenges of most of diseases afflicting the common person. He cited immunization, hygiene, nutrition and behaviour change as some of the cheaper ways used by the Government of Uganda in combating […]
By Gerald Businge on July 29, 2010
Africa Union Summit Kampala, security matters overshadowed AU summit
Latest Uganda News, Politics
Civil society organizations are complaining that security matters over-shadowed issues of maternal health at the African Union Summit. The theme of the summit was improving maternal and child health but the insecurity in Somalia and the recent terrorist attacks on Kampala dominated debate at the summit. The regional coordinator of the International Community of Women […]
By Gerald Businge on July 26, 2010
African musicians concerned over little attention to health, Musicians rap African leaders
Latest Uganda News, Media Gallery, Politics
Renowned African Musicians have lashed out a scathing attack on the leaders of Africa for their failure to pay reasonable attention to the health challenges that the continent faces and thus causing a lot of pain and agony to millions of women and children that are negatively affected by Africa’s crippled health state most. This […]
By Gerald Businge on July 26, 2010
African countries invest more in maternal and child health, African Union summit maternal health
Health, Latest Uganda News
According to the recent study published in the Public Library of Science medical journal, it estimates that in Africa 85% of maternal, newborn and under-age-5 deaths could be prevented if African countries took good interventions to curtail maternal and infant mortality. This means that each year about 4 million of African women, new borns and […]
By Gerald Businge on July 26, 2010
African Union Summit Uganda, African women activists, USA an lift Sanctions on Zimbabwe
Latest Uganda News, Politics
Women rights activists from across Africa have appealed to the international community to lift sanctions on Zimbabwe to allow people in the southern African nation to enjoy better lives. The USA and a host of other western countries slapped sanction on Zimbabwe citing several abuses by President Robert Mugabe leader of ANU-PF whom they accused […]
By Gerald Businge on July 26, 2010
African Union Peace Keeping Mission in Somalia, AU to extend Somali mission mandate, foreign troops in Somalia
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The African states under African Union (AU) have vowed to deploy more foreign troops in Somalia. But the Al Shabaab rebels fighting the foreign sponsored government of Somalia vows to ‘clash’ foreign troops. Currently it is only Uganda and Burundi that have deployed troops in Somalia. The African states say they want to deploy more […]
By Gerald Businge on July 23, 2010
Africa Civil society Organizations maternal health, African countries Maternal health commitment, African Union meeting Kampala Uganda, African Union on Maternal Health, Dr.Bactrin Killingo
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Civil Society Organizations operating in Africa have pledged to petition the African Union to promise that its various member countries will commit themselves to fighting reducing maternal health and not just talk about maternal health during this year’s summit that is taking place in Kampala and with a theme on maternal and child health. The […]
By Gerald Businge on July 22, 2010
African Union summit, Presidents attending Kampala AU summit, Sudan President Omar Bashir
Latest Uganda News, Politics
Uganda is still expecting the President of Sudan, Omar El Bashir to attend an African Union summit in Kampala this month. The minister of Uganda for Foreign Affairs, Sam Kutesa says the Sudanese embassy in Kampala recently confirmed that it received Bashir’s invitation letter and sent it to Khartoum. The African Union summit is taking […]