Tag Archives: Uganda

Uganda and IMF team reach staff-level agreement on a new PSI program

May 15, 2013 no comments

KAMPALA, Uganda, May 15, 2013 – African Press Organization (APO) – A team from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) visited Kampala during April 29-May 14, 2013 for discussions with the Uganda...

Uganda launches largest malaria prevention campaign

May 11, 2013 no comments

SOROTI, Uganda – The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria announced today that it is supporting Uganda in the distribution of over 15.5 million long lasting insecticide-treated nets, m...

Yoweri Musevani says “the purpose of the ICC has been distorted ...

April 9, 2013 no comments

Ugandan President, Yoweri Museveni, has made a scathing attack on the International Criminal Court (ICC) during the inauguration ceremony of Kenya’s new President, Uhuru Kenyatta. In a blisteri...

IOM helps Ugandan children trafficked to South Sudan

March 22, 2013 no comments

GENEVA, Switzerland, March 22, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ – IOM has assisted five children who were victims of human trafficking in South Sudan to return home to Uganda. The children, ran...

Rising investments and the rise of Africa’s middle class

December 30, 2012 no comments

KAMPALA, Fred Ojambo (IPS) - Rising investments in Africa’s service sector, the unlocking of its vast natural resources and the sound economic policies pursued by African countries in the last two de...

Counter-terrorism and human rights abuses in Kenya and Uganda, says ne...

December 9, 2012 no comments

A new 46 page report by the Open Society Justice Initiative that looks at how the governments of Kenya, Uganda, the US and the United Kingdom responded to the 2010 World Cup bombing in Kampala, Ugand...

More illegal abortions in Uganda as women fail to take contraceptives

November 25, 2012 no comments

Andrew Green - (IPS) - Every day at least five women are brought to the gynaecological ward of Uganda’s Mulago National Referral Hospital in Kampala for treatment for complications caused by crude at...

Ugandans should stop eating chimpanzees says conservationists

November 3, 2012 no comments

ALBERTINE RIFT REGION, Uganda, Henry Wasswa - (IPS) - Conservationists struggling to protect the remaining population of Ugandan chimpanzees have raised concerns that people around wildlife reserves ...

World Bank Report – Kenya overtaken by Uganda in doing business

October 30, 2012 1 comment

In a recently released World Bank Report, East Africa’s largest economy (Kenya) has dropped the ranks from position 109 to 121. This according to experts is attributed by the country’s inability to s...

Rwanda and Uganda threaten to sue Kenyan government over compensation ...

October 18, 2012 no comments

A diplomatic row is brewing between Rwandese, Ugandan business community and the Kenyan Government over a deal which the two states have accused the Kenyan Government for failing to abide. In the wak...

Ugandans celebrate Golden Jubilee marking 50 years of Independence

October 10, 2012 no comments

October 9th 2012 goes down in history for the people of The Perl of Africa as the 50th Anniversary marking Independence from the British rule which lasted nearly 70 years from the early 90s. Regional...

Uganda’s future prospects of emerging among the 1st world states in th...

October 4, 2012 no comments

While chairing a meeting at the Presidential Public Lecture held at Serena Hotel in Uganda, President Yoweri Museveni assured the members in attendance during the meeting that in a matter of years to...

Uganda – Africa’s biggest coffee exporter racing against time to...

October 1, 2012 1 comment

KAMPALA
 - Fred Ojambo (IPS) - Uganda, Africa’s biggest coffee exporter, is racing against time to boost its production of the crop by 60,000 tonnes, or one million 60-kilogramme bags, within the nex...

Keeping girls in school in Uganda – Plan International intervene...

September 27, 2012 no comments

KAMULI, Uganda, Andrew Green - (IPS) - Three years ago, after Irene Kamyuka finished her sixth year of primary school in Uganda, her father ran short of money. With four siblings ahead of her in scho...

And East Africa’s most corrupt are…

September 6, 2012 no comments

Despite the heightened measures formulated by government agencies to help curb corruption cases, it seems that the same old problem is here to stay with U.S. based Transparency International recently...

Death toll of UG’s helicopter crash hits seven

August 16, 2012 no comments

The number of bodies discovered from the helicopter crash incident in Mt. Kenya has now reached to three. Five more bodies were found on Thursday evening during the rescue mission carried out by Keny...