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 Samuel Wamuttu on February 14, 2017
according to the latest Food Price Monitoring and Analysis Bulletin (FPMA), and some 6.2 million people, crucial for local growing seasons, drought that is hammering the sub-region, East Africa, Food and Agricultural Organisation of the United Nations (FAO), is denting farm output, Kenya, livestock, livestock sciences, Local prices of maize, Mario Zappacosta, more than half of the country's total population, now face acute food insecurity, pastoralists in the region, Poor and erratic rainfall in recent months, Somalia, Somalia's maize and sorghum harvests are estimated to be 75 percent down from their usual level, sorghum and other cereals are near or at record levels in swathes of Ethiopia, South Sudan, stand in marked contrast to the stable trend of FAO's Food Price Index, town markets, uganda, Uganda and the United Republic of Tanzania, united republic of tanzania, where food stocks were already depleted by the strong El Niño weather, which measures the monthly change in international prices of a basket of traded food commodities, with the majority of those most affected living in rural areasArusha
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The Food and Agricultural Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) has raised an alarm over the current ravaging d rought throughout East Africa that has sharply curbed harvests and pushed the prices of cereals and other staple foods to unusually high levels, posing a heavy burden to households and special risks for pastoralists in the […]
By Gerald Businge on November 17, 2016
Caroline Njuki, Djibouti, Ethiopia, immigration policies, Kenya and Uganda, Ministers from Seven countries who are members of the Inter Government Organization on Development (IGAD), movement and administration of citizens in the seven member states, Somalia, South Sudan, Speke Resort Munyonyo, the senior programme coordinator regional secretariat on forced and mixed migration says the ministerial meeting on migration will see the launch of the ministerial committee on immigration.
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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 Isaac Senabulya on September 30, 2015
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The Government of the United States of America has decorated six UPDF Generals in recognition of their exceptionally good contribution in the fight against terrorism and pacification efforts in Somalia. The Generals were on September 30, 2015 decorated with the prestigious Legion of Merit medals of USA at the Chieftaincy of Military Intelligence headquarters in […]
By Gerald Businge on September 4, 2015
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The Ministry of defense has confirmed the death of 10 UDF officers during clashes with militant Islamist group al-Shabab in Janaale, Somalia. This was disclosed to parliament by the Minister of state for Defense, General Jeje Odong, while briefing Members of Parliament on the attack to the UPDF in Somalia. General Jeje said that Uganda lost […]
By Isaac Senabulya on May 19, 2015
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The Opposition Chief Whip, Hon. Cecilia Atim-Ogwal has called for a harmonization of national policies and strategies across country borders in order to offer proper solutions to problems affecting the African people. Ogwal, who was representing the Speaker of Parliament at the opening of the Sixth Ordinary Session of the 3rd Pan African Parliament, […]
By Walakira on September 6, 2012
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Ugandan President Gen. Museveni Kaguta in his capacity as the commander in chief of Uganda armed forces has today sent 2,831 troops to Somalia to fight the Al Shabaab militants. The soldiers Museveni has sent to Somalia are to be deployed in battle group ten. Battle group 10 has replaced battle group eight. The […]
By Walakira on August 22, 2012
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Despite the crash of three Uganda military planes two weeks back on the slopes of Mt. Kenya, in which over seven soldiers lost their lives, president Museveni of Uganda is willing to send more troops and war planes to fight the al-Shabaab militants in Somalia. The development has come at the time when discussions between […]
