poverty

Tanzania tops region in hunger levels: GHI

Tanzania tops region in hunger levels: GHI

Tanzania has been found to top the region in hunger levels. This according to the Global Hunger Index (GHI) which was released in October 2016 by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) in partnership with Welthungerhilfe and Concern Worldwide. The report which was dubbed Getting to Zero hunger notes that the developing world has made substantial progress […]

Kadaga appeals to regional speakers to empower their people on economic development.

Kadaga appeals to regional speakers to empower their people on economic development.

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 […]

10% of Ugandans still living in chronic poverty – Report

10% of Ugandans still living in chronic poverty – Report

A new report dubbed Human rights and Poverty has been released today by the Foundation for Human Rights Initiative (FHRI) indicating that 10% of Ugandans are still living in chronic poverty. The report notes that the chronically poor people not only lack income but also Education, skills, assets, good health and strong social networks. The same reports highlights that […]

How to add folic acid to foods to prevent spina bifida and hydrocephalus

   There is no doubt that Uganda for sometime has been steadily registering high level of economic growth and development especially for the last 27 years of NRM’s governance. This economic growth and development is characterized by improvement in provision of social services such as health and education, reduction in poverty levels, improvement in infrastructure, […]

Tamale Mirundi: Museveni lifted me from poverty to richness

President Museveni’s press secretary, Tamale Mirundi has said that he is so thankful to Uganda’s head of state. Mirundi says that even if president Museveni decides to sack him, he will remain eternally grateful to him. “President Museveni saved my mother from death, he has educated my children, enriched them- And then what else do […]

Life in Southern Sudan: High inflation, tribalism, poverty and corruption on increase

  Southern Sudan went to the bushes 25 years back to fight the Arabs in Khartoum in a bid to get independence. Millions of lives were lost in this civil war. At the end of the fight, Southern Sudan was curved out of the former main Republic of Sudan forming the new Republic of Southern […]

Court convicts president Museveni’s political opponents to 310 years

  The days the suspects in John Bosco Ariong’s death stayed in Luzira Upper Prison looked shorter than those I spent with Dr. Col. Kiiza Besigye in Nakasongola Prison because from day one prison official in Nakasongola switched off the electricity and Water. We would spend the nights on the watch therefore not sleep because […]

Minister tips Ugandans on poverty

The State Minister for Elderly and Disability, Sulaiman Madada, has advised Ugandans to take advantage of the existing Government development programmes and get out of poverty. The minister notes that the majority of the poorest people in the country are people with disabilities, widows, and some sections of youth but very few of them are […]

Jomo Kenyatta Foundation offers secondary sch. Scholarships for Kenyans

Jomo Kenyatta Foundation Scholarships: The Jomo Kenyatta Foundation (JKF) scholarship scheme is an educational fund set up by the Foundation to assist bright but needy secondary school students in the public secondary schools in Kenya. The Jomo Kenyatta Foundation (JKF) scholarship programme has to date assisted more than 10,000 Kenyan students pursue secondary school education. […]