By Gerald Businge on May 8, 2010
Latest Uganda News
Ultimate Media District, Sub County and security chiefs in Bududa have been told to arrest anyone who sells relief items meant for the survivors of Bududa landslides. The directive has been given by the Resident District Commissioner of Amuru, Edwin Komakech who toured Bududa district today. “Anyone found selling relief items must be arrested […]
By Gerald Businge on October 29, 2018
Attorney General, Elly Tumwiine, foreign affairs minister, Justice Kasule Lumumba, Matia Kasaija, National Resistance Movement (NRM) Secretary General, Prime Minister Dr. Ruhakana Rugunda, Sam Kuteesa, security minister, that of Finance and Economic Planning, William Byaruhanga
Politics
President Yoweri Museveni has urged the European Union (EU) to support Uganda’s efforts to relocate people from wetlands and forests and avert environmental degradation and landslides. “When Hon. Kuteesa was at the UN, I tasked him with fundraising for this cause. We want to remove people from the wetlands. He raised US$22million. Support us to […]
By Samuel Wamuttu on July 14, 2016
Drought, El Nino weather, hiv infections, Report, UNICEF, women girls
Environment issues, Health
Drought exacerbated by the El Nino weather pattern could lead to a spike in new HIV infections in southern Africa as women and girls turn to sex to survive and patients miss treatments, the United Nations children’s’ agency UNICEF said on Tuesday. More than 60 million people, two thirds of them in east and southern […]
By Gerald Businge on September 6, 2011
climate change, climate change and food security, Uganda disaster areas
Latest Uganda News
Members of parliament from disaster hit areas have warned of a looming famine in areas affected by heavy rain. The mps who included the mp for Dodoth north county Samson Lokeris, mp for Labwor county in Abim ditrict Micheal Ayepa and the woman mp for Bududa district Justine Khainza said that areas affected by drought and floods […]
By Gerald Businge on April 16, 2010
Latest Uganda News
Ultimate Media Corporate companies have been challenged to priotise corporate social responsibility programs in their respective communities if they are to reap from their target markets. The call was made by the Nokia communications manager East and Southern Africa Dorothy Ouko, while handing over a cheque worth over 28 million shillings to the Uganda […]
By Gerald Businge on March 31, 2010
Latest Uganda News
By Walakira Nyanzi, Ultimate Media The President General of the opposition Democratic Party (DP), Norbert Mao has declared that the days of ruling Uganda with guns are over. “I saw President Museveni in Bududa recently carrying a karishinikov 47, may be he was thinking that landslides were rebels,” Mao, who is also the LCV […]