EAC Partner States have been urged to conduct research and provide health services for the prevention, control, early detection, management and support to various human disabilities. The sentiments were echoed as a historic East African Community Conference on Persons with Disability came to a close in Kampala, Uganda on Saturday. While closing the Conference, [...]
The Third Meeting, Third Session of the Second East African Legislative Assembly sitting at the Chambers of the Parliament of Uganda in Kampala has adopted a common strategy for food security in the region. In a lively plenary session chaired by the Speaker of EALA, Hon. Abdirahin Haithar Abdi, Members adopted the Report on common [...]
Uganda legislatures have unearthed a mega scandal in a publicity contract for four-month media campaign during the 2007 Commonwealth Summit. The Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has discovered that that out of the 17 companies that submitted their bids, 16 were disqualified because they allegedly lacked ‘documents’. Saatchi and Saatchi and ‘won’ the contract during [...]
Kenya and Uganda have affirmed their commitment to the East African regional integration. The two countries borders have been deemed un-necessary barrier and will soon be abandoned to ease cross-border trade and movement of people. Kenya’s Vice President Kalonzo Musyoka has said that people of East Africa are linked together geographically, economically and culturally and [...]
A warning has been issued by the U.S. embassy in Khartoum, Sudan that terrorists in the East Africa region were planning a deadly attack on Air Uganda flights that ply the routes between southern Sudan and Uganda.Embassy officials in Khartoum did not name the potential attackers but has said in the past that terrorist [...]
Human sacrifice is on the increase in Uganda according to a government spokesman. This barbaric crime is directly linked to rising levels of development and prosperity, and an increasing belief that witchcraft can help people get rich quickly. Witch doctors claim they have clients who regularly capture children and bring their blood and body parts [...]
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) a leading international Pharmaceutical company has announced a 40 percent reduction for antibiotics prices in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. Oral formulations of Augmentin would reduce by 40 percent while that of Zinnat would have a 30 percent fall. GSK Managing Director John Musunga said the move was to help in the fight against [...]
President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda has received the endorsement of the country’s ruling National Resistance Movement party to stand for a fourth successive term in office in the 2011 Presidential elections. The endorsement came from the Central Executive Committee of the party in a meeting last week. The party’s chief whip, Daudi Migereko in [...]
The Ugandan Parliament have unanimously voted to make female genital mutilation a crime in the country. According to the new law, anyone caught in the practice of female circumcision, will face a jail term of ten years, or a life sentence if someone dies as a result of the act. Female genital mutilation involves the [...]
The Ugandan government has increased security measures on all entry ports into the country following threats by Islamist rebel group and Al-Qaeda proxy, Al-Shabaab who are based in Somalia. The rebel group had threatened to attack the capitals of Uganda and Burundi after they alleged that these two countries had soldiers serving with the African [...]
Islamist rebel group and al-qaeda proxy in Africa, al-shabaab, has threatened to attack the capitals of Burundi and Uganda in retaliation of what they say are attacks by peacekeepers in these countries which killed over 30 people in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia. In a statement, Sheikh Ali Mohamed Hussein, a senior al Shabaab commander, [...]
