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Former Prime Minister Amama Mbabazi has condemned torture by security forces. In his first public address since losing in the 2016 presidential election, Mbabazi says torture is unacceptable and goes against the laws of Uganda. Mbabazi said that as a member of the National Resistance Movement party-NRM, one of the things they fought for was [...]
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The state minister of environment Beatrice Atim Anwyar has rallied parliament to support her bid for the United Nations Environment Assembly - UNEA presidency. The 6th session of the forthcoming Assembly, which is the world's highest-level decision-making body on the environment consisting of all 193 UN Member States will take place in Nairobi on March [...]
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The Auditor-General has observed the unsatisfactory utilisation of the Kalule Uganda Women Entrepreneurship Programme-UWEP following a value for money audit. The Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development is implementing UWEP. It is an initiative of the Government aimed at empowering women to improve their income levels and contribution to economic development. In the past [...]
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Opposition MPs have resolved to develop a framework to improve their performance in parliament. The 109 legislators have been clustered in different sector-based groups where each MP can build capacity and debate from an informed point of view. This was part of the resolutions at the three-day retreat of Opposition MPs held at Imperial Botanical [...]
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Today the Court of Appeal will commence the conferencing for the hearing of 81 election appeals. Conferencing is where lawyers of both parties agree on issues to be determined by court before the case file is forwarded to a panel of three justices for hearing. The Court of Appeal Registrar, Susan Kanyange will lead a [...]
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Parliament's Committee on Commissions, Statutory Authorities, and State Enterprises - COSASE has directed the Ministry of Finance to expedite payment of 69.5 Billion Shillings it owes to the Uganda Railways Corporation. In 2013, the Government resolved to sell some of the URC’s properties identified as non-core assets to sustain the operations of the entity and [...]
Government failed to spend 3.1 trillion shillings in the last financial year. This was revealed by the auditor general John Muwanga while handing over the audit report for the last financial year to the deputy speaker of parliament Anita Among. The acting assistant auditor general in charge of audit Edward Akol says failure to spend [...]
Deputy Speaker Anita Among has sent a warning to all committee chairpersons who have failed to produce reports on bills under their scrutiny. She says all the bills that have delayed at the committee stage will be passed and approved without the recommendations of the respective committees. Committees are supposed to scrutinize a bill and [...]
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The Public Accounts Committee – PAC has recommended the Auditor General conducts a forensic audit in the Shillings 53.5 billion distributed to vulnerable Ugandans as COVID-19 relief. This follows a joint report by the Central and Local Governments Committee on Public Accounts indicating mismanagement of the COVID-19 relief cash. The Committee was tasked to verify [...]
Through this partnership, MTN Pulse and VU will provide 5 full and 5 partial scholarships to Pulsers to commence studies in the University’s March intake. The these scholarships are targeting creative and innovative teens with transformational ideas that can be developed and implemented to solve society's problems and positively impact society. Through this partnership, both [...]
