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Prof. Tarsis Kabwegyere, a catholic unites Muslims

Recently president Museveni constituted a nine member committee headed by Prof. Tarsisis Kabwegyere to forge a way forward in regard to resolve wrangles associated with Muslim leadership! This is not the first time the president is making an attempt to-unite Muslims inUganda. In 1993, he tried a similar move, when a Muslim unity conference was […]

Call for applications at OHCHR Internships

OHCHR Internships: Internships for graduate students are available at the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). These internships are intended to: a) increase the intern’s understanding of current human rights issues at the international level and give them an insight into the work of the United Nations and OHCHR in […]

Aid agencies asked to empower local organisations to overcome emergencies

Many more people will survive and recover from emergencies such as earthquakes, floods and famines if international aid agencies boost local organisations’ ability to respond, a Christian Aid report says today. ‘One of the best ways to reduce the suffering and devastation caused by disasters in poor countries is to strengthen local people’s ability to […]

Top scientists urge end to policy and governance failures to tackle social and environmental crises

News Release Top scientists will tomorrow (20 February) urge governments to replace GDP as a measure of wealth, end damaging subsidies, and transform systems of governance to set humanity on a new path to a better future — or risk climate, biodiversity and poverty crises that will spawn greater problems worldwide. These are among the […]

Bus drivers, operators end anti government strike

  Passengers’ temperatures have cooled down on Wednesday after bus drivers, owners and operators called off their week long strike that had paralyzed the country and led some sections of the people in Uganda to allege that the strike was anti government. Most service sectors in Uganda almost stage daily anti government strikes in Kampala […]

‘Obama is in Uganda’

The Executive Director of the United States of America and President Barack Obama’s Global Health Initiative chief, Lois Quam has arrived in Uganda on Monday. Lois Quam is in Uganda for a one week visit to support Uganda’s Ministry of Health’s effort to reduce maternal deaths by at least 50% in four western districts of […]