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Prisoners write to UN over long detention

  Inmates at Luzira prison have petitioned UN to register their claims which involve the long detention in prison without trial. Some of the prisoners who have petitioned UN include those who were arrested during theBugandakingdom riots in 2009. The inmates in their petition indicated that many prisoners are languishing at Luzira prison and other […]

UNDP to give women jobs, calls for applications

  The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has called for applications from qualified women to fill its vacant posts including the post of national programme specialist (UN women). Because of this the government of Uganda is committed to UN reform and has requested the UN system in the country to accelerate its efforts towards greater […]

UN comprehensive regional plan to arrest Joseph Kony leaks

The United Nations and Uganda government plan to have the LRA leader Joseph Kony arrested and prosecuted in International Criminal Court (ICC) has leaked to the press. The Uganda and UN officials will meet in Entebbe next week to discuss how their secrets ended up leaking to the press. The UN officials will also use […]

UN calls for better women representations in Parliaments

The United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon has called for bigger numbers of women in Parliaments of different countries. Ban told a high-level forum on women and democracy, held in the Lithuanian capital, Vilnius, that it was time for “faster and wider progress” in promoting the participation of women at all levels of society. “When […]

UN Food and Agriculture Organisation declares rinderpest an eradicated disease

The United Nations today declared that the world has completely eradicated a cattle disease that has killed millions of bovines for millennia. It is the first animal disease to be officially declared eradicated – and only the second disease ever, after smallpox. A resolution approved by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) at its […]

UN happy about Kampala Accord on extension of Somali Transitional Government for one year

The United Nations envoy for Somalia today welcomed the agreement reached to extend the terms of the country’s President and the Speaker of Parliament for another year as a breakthrough in ending the political impasse over the current transition period. Under the agreement, known as the Kampala Accord for the Ugandan capital in which it […]