By Amon Baita The United Nations’ expert and Foundation for human rights initiative (FHRI)’ Executive Director Dr Livingston Sewanyana will devote his second thematic report to the Human Rights Council to the intersectional topic of public participation and decision-making in global governance spaces and its impact on a democratic and
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The United States on Friday revealed that Uganda's former Inspector General of Police Kale Kayihura had banned from entering the super power. In a statement issued by the US Secretary of State Mike Pompea, the ban is part of sanction against Kayihura and his family members over what the US
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By Amon Baita The implementation of the Uganda Revenue Authority Digital Tax Stamp Solution (DTSS) is set to go live soon, after the last stage of installing equipment in factories is completed. Speaking during the launch of the taxpayers’ appreciation month for Northern Uganda in Gulu over the weekend, Mr
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Robert Mugabe's family say they are shocked at not having been consulted by the government about arrangements for the funeral of the former Zimbabwean president. Mr Mugabe, who was 95, died last week while undergoing medical treatment in a Singapore hospital. His body is being prepared to lie in state
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The Ministry of Works and Transport has affirmed that Uganda is on schedule for the construction of the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) despite compensating only 11% compensation of the project affected persons within three years. The development was revealed by the SGR Coordinator, Canon Perez Wamburu while appearing before the
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A schoolgirl in Kenya has taken her own life after allegedly being shamed in class for having her period and staining her uniform. The 14-year-old's mother said her daughter hanged herself after being humiliated by a teacher, Kenyan media reported. Police used tear gas to disperse a crowd of about
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Uganda National Bureau of Standards (UNBS) 2019 has described the New Vision story of Wednesday 11th September 2019 titled “UNBS cleared expired sugar for sale” as inaccurate and misleading. The Standards body adds that the story “is damaging, blatantly deceptive and flies in the face of our mandate of protecting
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After unveiling a new Uganda Inspire Initiative, an umbrella corporate social responsibility (CSR) program, Sanlam Life Insurance has launched an education scholarship initiative dubbed “Better life campaign” aimed at top performers of Primary Leaving Examination (PLE) who will have an opportunity to receive scholarship to continue their studies in Ordinary
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Uganda’s Health Ministry has confirmed reports of a strange disease that recently struck Mityana, leaving six babies dead. Sarah Opendi, the State Minister of Health General Duties revealed that the deaths were mainly due to fetal distress resulting from delayed labour. She made the remarks today on the floor of
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By Denis Jjuuko If you drive along our highways early in the morning, you are most likely to see women with hoes going to till the land. On a certain highway, I counted about 20 women and only two men in a radius of about 20 kilometres. The figures are
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