By Samuel Wamuttu on January 23, 2020
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Ugandans have been advised to stock food as a precautionary measure to counter the effects of desert locusts that are a mere 166 kilometers from the Uganda-Kenya border in the north eastern region of Karamoja according to Uganda’s Ministry of Information and National Guidance. Turkana is about 166km from Karamoja, meaning the locusts can reach […]
By Samuel Wamuttu on January 12, 2020
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Uganda’s ministry of agriculture has announced that it is on high alert over an eminent threat of desert locusts that have invaded the East African Region especially the neighboring Kenya. The revelation was made on Friday by Aggrey Bagiire, the State Minister of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries during a press briefing at the Ugandan […]
By Gerald Businge on August 24, 2017
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YAOUNDE, CAMEROON: There is renewed interest by academics, civil society and legislators over the continent’s extractive sector and want a common mining law. The legislators are concerned over natural resource governance and economic development on the African continent and are pushing for legislation that addresses issues of transparency and accountability by the governments and mining […]
By Gerald Businge on November 17, 2016
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Ministers from Seven countries who are members of the Inter Government Organization on Development (IGAD) are met last week for the ministerial meeting on immigration. In a meeting that opened on Wednesday at the Speke Resort Munyonyo was expected to review several immigration policies concerning the movement and administration of citizens in the seven member states. The […]
By Samuel Wamuttu on September 30, 2016
000 coming from the countries such as Burundi, 000 refugees for six months with safe water, 000 US dollars to support the Uganda Red Cross Society’s efforts to assist 40, According to reports, and health care, and in need of shelter. With more families arriving daily, Andreas Sandin, as well as curb outbreaks of diarrhoeal diseases., Bidi- bidi reception Centre in Yumbe district, deployed the first Red Cross unmanned aerial vehicle – a drone – in Africa to monitor the situation at a vast refugee camp on the border with South Sudan, DR Congo, drone footage from northern Uganda revealed that a swathe of countryside is becoming home for the hundreds of people crossing the border each day, emergency shelter, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gracious Kyagaba, hungry, hygiene promotion, IFRC operations coordinator for East Africa. “Having travelled more than 400 kilometres from Juba, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) launched an emergency appeal for 700, Kenya and Rwanda among others, President Museveni called on world leaders to respect the rights of refugees in their countries, Regional leaders in the Greater Horn of Africa has also raised concern over unending wars that often leads to emergency situations that majorly affects women and children, said: “The appeal launched by the IFRC will support us to address issues related to inadequate supply of water and limited access to health facilities, sanitation, Somalia, South Sudan, they arrive exhausted, Uganda currently has a refugee population of 690, Uganda Red Cross Society, UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Water and Sanitation Coordinator at the Uganda Red Cross Society, we need to ramp up our activities quickly, While addressing leaders at a recent world leaders' summit on Refugees in New York during the ongoing United Nations General Assembly
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Uganda Red Cross Society recently deployed the first Red Cross unmanned aerial vehicle – a drone – in Africa to monitor the situation at a vast refugee camp on the border with South Sudan. The drone footage from northern Uganda revealed that a swathe of countryside is becoming home for the hundreds of people crossing […]
By Isaac Senabulya on September 20, 2016
18 – 19 September 2016. Delegations from South Sudan, Amb. Mohamed Adam said the Meeting was testimony of countries’ commitment to the grand goals and visions, at least from its objectives, climate change is devastating our region; when many women and girls in our region are still subjected to cruel, Council Meeting is being held at Century Hotel in Kamuli, degrading treatment and torture under the name of cultural values, disadvantaged and oppressed, Djibouti, Environmental degradation, Ethiopia, human trafficking and drugs., inhuman, IPU-IGAD include promoting unity and strengthening ties of cooperation among member states; promoting peace, IPU-IGAD possesses the potent, Kenya, migrations, Opening the 9th Executive Council Meeting of the Inter-Parliamentary Union – (IPU-IGAD), oversight and representation to champion the interests of the people, poverty, protect people from economic exploitation, Rebecca Kadaga, Secretary General of the IPU-IGAD Member States, security and stability within the sub-region and promoting good governance, Somalia, South Sudan, Speaker Kadaga said that her colleagues also have to think about using their traditional tools of legislation, Speaker of Parliament, Sudan and Uganda are attending the Meeting, the marginalized, the voiceless, to address some of the challenges faced in our region. Let us make it work for the common person in the region, transparency and rule of law within member states, vagaries of weather and bad governance
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The Speaker of Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga has challenged regional speakers to use their positions to protect people from economic exploitation, vagaries of weather and bad governance. Opening the 9th Executive Council Meeting of the Inter-Parliamentary Union – (IPU-IGAD), Speaker Kadaga said that her colleagues also have to think about using their traditional tools of legislation, oversight […]
By Paul Kisembo on September 16, 2016
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Uganda is the best ranked country in the East African region with neighbours Kenya dropping in the latest Fifa world rankings released on 15th September 2016. This comes after Uganda ended a 38-year wait by qualifying to the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations in Gabon as one of two best placed runners-up. Uganda cranes coach Milutin […]
By Samuel Wamuttu on July 18, 2016
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The highly anticipated elections of a new chairperson to head the AU Commission has hit a snug after none of the aspiring candidates contesting for the position garnered the required majority votes in the initial stages of voting that took place in the Rwanda capital Kigali, Monday 18 July,2016. Uganda’s Dr. Specioza Wandira Kazibwe who […]
By Samuel Wamuttu on July 15, 2016
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Delays in resident compensation by the Uganda National Roads Authority (UNRA) have stifled progress to the completion of the Mpigi- Kanoni road. This according to Milivoje Millisavijevic, the managing director ENERGO Uganda has affected the work progress on the 64km road that stretches through Seeta, Kabasanda-Gombe. ENERGO is the company that was awarded the contract […]
By Samuel Wamuttu on June 28, 2016
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The odd saying that one Kenyan can do a job worthy six Ugandans is about to change if we are to go by a new World Bank report on productivity in a work place. According to the The East African newspaper,the World Bank report indicates that Kenyan workers are less productive than their counterparts in […]
