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The President of the Democratic Party, Norbert Mao says President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni's move on evicting the balalo herdsmen from Northern Uganda is not the solution to land conflict. Last year Museveni ordered the eviction of the balalo herdsmen who are non-natives of the Acholi Sub Region from Northern Uganda. Museveni ordered the balalo herdsmen [...]
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The China Communications Construction Company (CCCC), which is contracted to upgrade and expand the Entebbe International Airport, has sought a two year extension to complete the contract. The contract was expected to be completed by the end of 2022. The overall level of completion is currently at 76 % as work on the new passenger [...]
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Travellers entering Uganda will no longer have to undergo mandatory COVID-19 testing. The new measures took effect yesterday. According to a statement released by the Ministry of Health, the decision to stop testing was made by Cabinet on Monday during its weekly meeting. Records from the health ministry show that the number of new COVID-19 [...]
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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Youth in Acholi Quarters receive health services as they celebrate Valentine’s Day. KAMPALA, Monday 14th February 2022 - Reach A Hand, Uganda (RAHU) in partnership with CiplaQCIL today joined young people in the Acholi Quarters, a slum settlement in Kampala to celebrate Valentine’s Day with an integrated community health outreach and a #SafeLove concert. This [...]
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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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The government has commissioned road projects connecting Kasese District to Katunguru, an area on the southern banks of the Kazinga Channel, which links Lake George with Lake Edward. The road projects include the 58 kilometres of a stretch that starts at Hima Town and traverses through Kasese Municipality, Queen Elizabeth National Park and ends at [...]
