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Purposes of screening in reproductive health services

The World Health Organisation (WHO) regulations and guidelines provide that no woman or foetus or baby should die or be harmed by pregnancy or birth. The WHO urges world governments to work for reduction of mortality rates to half of the 2500 levels by the year 2015. But in this article our major factor is […]

Man working under influence of marijuana kills two children

The police inUgandahave arrested a man who reportedly acted under the influence of marijuana and killed his two children both boys, Walakira Nyanzi reports.   Abdullah Jamal, a resident ofTanganyikavillage inDadamuSubCountyin Arua reportedly killed the children and reported himself to police claiming that he did not have food to feed the children. The Criminal Investigations […]

Tamale Mirundi insists Type of federalism Buganda advocates is impossible

President Yoweri Museveni’s Press Secretary, Tamale Mirundi continues to shock his fellow Baganda. Mirundi has recently been preaching that the type of federalism the kingdom of Buganda is demanding is not only impossible but unworkable. The acerbic Mirundi says that it would be a fraud if Buganda ever gets full federal status it demands. Mirundi […]

FDC Women’s League Leader Ingrid Turinawe released from prison

The Leader of the women league of the Forum for Democratic Chnage, Ingrid Turinawe has been released by court. This is after she was arrested and charged in court after her standoff with the police who blocked her accessing the city centre. Turinawe was stopped from attending a press conference by the Activists for Change, […]

Government to cut Kampala into smaller units

The government is again planning to chop Kampala and other areas into smaller political administrative units. Currently Kampala is made up of five divisions. These are Nakawa, Makindye, Kampala Central, Kawempe and Lubaga division. We hear that the government wants to divide the above divisions into more units because of their big population.  President Museveni’s […]

Court orders mental check on Uganda first son over defilement

High Court judge Albert Rugadya Atwoki has ordered for mental check up on Francis Binaisa, a former first son who faces charges of defilement. The judge says his mental status needs to be checked before he can take the stand to defend himself. 54-year old Francis, who is son to the late former President Godfrey […]