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The government of the United States has offered a $30 million grant to Uganda to fund reconstruction efforts in four war affected districts of Uganda. The funding through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) will facilitate the Northern Uganda Development of Enhanced Local Governance, Infrastructure and Livelihoods (NUDEIL) program in the targeted districts […]
The Commonwealth Secretariat has mourned the late Joseph Okema, who died in a Nairobi hospital on Sunday after a severe car accident. Okema was the manager of the ‘Project Hope’ Northern Uganda Youth Development Centre in Gulu, a project spearheaded by the Commonwealth. Commenting in the absence of Commonwealth Secretary-General Kamalesh Sharma, who is travelling […]
The State Minister for Disabilities Sulaiman Madada has welcomed the report of the Human Rights Watch on the women with disabilities in Northern Uganda and promised that the government will be ready to implement some of the recommendations that the report comes up with on the plight of women with disabilities from that region. This come […]
The Human Rights Watch in its new report has seriously condemned the wide spread discrimination and violence against women with disabilities mainly Northern Uganda. The 73-page report that has been released today is called “’As if we aren’t human’: Discrimination and Violence against women with Disabilities in Northern Uganda,” highlights the frequent abuse and discrimination against […]
The UK Department for International Development has urged Ugandan that return from the Diaspora to invest in Northern Uganda since the north has enormous investment opportunities that such people may want to take up. While speaking to journalists in Kampala, the Head of Office DFID Uganda Jane Rintsul said that in May 2010, when DFID […]
The Private Sector Foundation Uganda will be at the fore front of implementing the Business Uganda Investment Scheme that is aimed at helping farmers from Northern Uganda add value to their farm products so that they can benefit more from their farm products. Business Uganda Investment Scheme is one of the few schemes under the […]
DFID has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the government for a grant of over 50 billion shillings to finance programmes under the Peace Recovery and Development Plan that that are aimed at reconstructing Northern Uganda. The Memorandum of Understanding has been signed by Pius Bigirimana the Permanent Secretary of the Prime Ministers and the […]
The government of Uganda has used part of the 79 billion shillings that was directly disbursed to the districts in Northern Uganda for the implementation of the Peace Recovery and Development programmes in those districts to procure 60 hydra form machines for 40 of the PRDP districts. This comes after earlier this month the government […]
Over 50 Northern Uganda chiefs from Gulu district will be the first people to benefit from houses constructed using form blocks made by hydraform machines donated by the prime ministers office in 2009. The Minister of State for Northern Uganda reconstruction, David Wakikhona told journalists in Kampala on Friday that the blocks will help construct […]
The European Union has given Uganda a grant of over 85 billion shillings for the purpose of revamping agriculture in the Karamoja region of eastern Uganda and Northern Uganda. The Permanent Secretary of the Office of the Prime Minister, Pius Bigirimana has told journalists at Parliament that the money from European Union will also be used to […]