Plastic Recycling Industries, run by Coca-Cola Beverages Africa (CCBA) Uganda in Nakawa, Kampala, Wednesday signed a Memorandum of Understanding with a Plastics Collection Centre in Masaka to cover Western Uganda. The PRI Factory has processed more than2,000 tonnes of plastic waste so far this year alone. Signing on behalf of
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Uganda’s Health Ministry has revealed that it is true that Cabinet discussed the issue of hiring doctors from Cuba at the time Doctors were striking. State Minister for Health-General Duties Sarah Opendi made the revelation on Wednesday while appearing before the Parliament Committee on Health. This is after e MPs
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Conflict has forced 1.7 million people to flee their homes in the Democratic Republic of Congo this year, causing "a mega-crisis", aid agencies say. This means that for the second consecutive year, DR Congo is worst-affected by conflict displacement in the world, the agencies add. DR Congo has been hit
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Ugandan judge, Solome Balungi Bossa was on Tuesday elected to join the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, The Netherlands. Ambassador Adonia Ayebare, Uganda’s Permanent Representative to the UN broke the news of her election on twitter praising the efforts of the East African nation's team to have scoop
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By Farhad Khan The African Development Bank projects that Uganda’s GDP will grow from 5.1% in 2017 to 5.8% in 2018. Among other factors, the government has highlighted the role of information communications technology (ICT) as key enabler for this trend toward growth. As key stakeholders in the country continue
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Aliko Dangote was honored at the Bloomberg 50 annual gala dinner held at New York's iconic Gotham Hall on Monday night. Bloomberg's list of 50 most influential names who have had an impact on the world in 2017 included Dangote, Africa's richest person, for his outstanding commitment of over $4B
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Uganda’s military says it has begun the withdrawal of 281 troops serving in the African Union peacekeeping mission in Somalia. This is part of a UN plan that will see African Union (AU) soldiers’ numbers reduced by 1,000 by the end of this year. At the moment there are more
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Ending child marriage today could generate $3 billion (Shs10.9 trillion) per year for Uganda by 2030, says a new report published by the World Bank. In contrast, the perpetuation of child marriage would lead to lower educational attainment for girls and their children, higher population growth, substantial health risks, higher
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The presence of age limits for any elective office goes against Article 1 of the 1995 Constitution, the bedrock of that supreme law, which says “Power belongs to the people”, President Yoweri Museveni has said. Since Ugandans are the custodians of the Constitution and their country, the President said, they
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Uganda’s Speaker of Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga, says that the raid on Entebbe Airport in 1976 by Israel to rescue their people should be a vehicle for unity between Uganda and Israel and Africa as a whole. Highlighting the hijacking of the plane and the subsequent rescue of the passengers by
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