Women PeaceMakers Program: Women PeaceMakers Program invites women from around the world who have been locally involved in human rights and peacemaking efforts.

Women accepted into this program are seeking ways to further their peacemaking efforts in their home countries.

The Women PeaceMakers Program is a selective program for leaders who want to document, share, and build upon their unique peacemaking stories.

Selected peacemakers will receive round-trip airfare, housing, and a small stipend to cover expenses for the eight-week residency in San Diego, California.

The program will provide each peacemaker with an assistant writer and film assistant to document her story.

Each peacemaker will receive a small stipend to cover expenses while in San Diego and living accommodations at the IPJ’s Casa de la Paz will be provided.

Qualifications:

This is a program open to women who have been involved in either official or unofficial peace processes and who may be working at the grassroots, national, or international level.

For more information and application materials, contact: Women PeaceMakers Program Website

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This week MPs have been circulating a document in the parliament collecting signatures to impeach President Yoweri Museveni on grounds of abuse of office, violation of the oath of allegiance, misconduct, failure to address unemployment and public service delivery.

The MPs led by Aruu County MP Odonga Otto and Rubaga South MP, Ken Lukyamuzi allege that the president has been using his office to facilitate corruption, failed to crack a whip against his corrupt ministers and recklessly use public funds, which the MPs claim is the cause of the skyrocketing inflation in Uganda.

So today we have decided to tell you how a president ofUgandacan be legally impeached. Article 107(1) of the Constitution of Uganda provides how the President may be removed from the office in accordance with this article on any of the following grounds.
(a) Abuse of office or willful violation of the oath of allegiance and the presidential oath or any provision of this constitution;

(b) Misconduct or misbehavior (I) that he or she has conducted himself in a manner which brings or is likely to bring the office of president into hatred, ridicule, contempt or disrepute
(ii) that he or she has dishonestly done any act or omission which is prejudicial or inimical to the economy or security of Uganda.
(c) Physical or mental incapacity, namely that he or she is incapable of performing the functions of his or her office by reason of physical or mental incapacity.

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Download a PDF of the Foster wheeler Uganda Refinery study report here. 

The government of Uganda hired Swiss Engineering and Construction company Foster Wheeler Energy Limited (FWEL) in early 2011 to undertake a study of Uganda’s oil potential. The key goal of the assignment was to advise the government on whether to strategise on constructing a refinery or an oil pipeline to export crude oil.

According to the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Development, the study was is in line with the objective four of the National Oil and Gas Policy for Uganda of promoting valuable utilisation of the country’s resources.

The aim of the study, among other things, was to recommend the optimum size, configuration, location, cost and financing options of the refinery, the attendant infrastructure and market for the refined products, as well as preliminary environmental assessment of the possible impacts of refinery development.

Foster Wheeler successfully completed the study and presented a report to the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Development in August 2010.

It is by now no secret that the study recommended that it would be more viable for Uganda to build an oil refinery, with a 150 000-bl/d refinery facility in Uganda suggested.

The study followed pressure from many oil companies preferring Uganda to use the Kenyan refinery in Mombasa to process the oil from western Uganda.

Other than the technical benefits of avoiding transporting heated crude over such a long distance from western Uganda to Mombasa, the consultants pointed at the direct employment opportunities that will accrue from the refinery, saying it will boost Uganda’s economy by saving over $1bn annually.

The study report weighing the different options as well as the investment opportunities in either options is the key document on Uganda’s oil industry. No wonder the government is selling a copy of the report at more than $150,000 and you have to sign an agreement not to divulge the contents there in.

We bought a copy from a 3^rd party and are availing it to you so you can take more informed decision as regards Uganda oil sector and potential.

Download a PDF of the Foster wheeler Uganda Refinery study report here. 

You can also download

Uganda oil and Gas Laws-a Review

Uganda Production Sharing Agreement with oil companies-part I

Uganda Production Sharing Agreement with oil companies-part 2

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