By Drake Nyamugabwa When women and girls engage in household chores such as cooking, cleaning, taking care of children and the elderly including fetching firewood and water, it constitutes what has been termed unpaid care and domestic work. International and civil society organisations (CSOs) meeting at the sidelines of the
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Uganda's Central Bank is involved in another financial scandal in which officials there are accused of not paying the National Social Security Fund (NSSF) the mandatory monthly remittances of about Shs2 billion deducted from eight employees’ salaries as required by the Act establishing the NSSF. Reports indicate that the Bank
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Kampala Minister, Beti Olive Kamya has ordered the interdiction of 8 Kampala Capital City Authority-KCCA law enforcers, URN reports. The directive is contained in the Minister's March 12th, 2019 letter to the Acting KCCA Executive Director, Eng. Andrew Kitaka. "The following KCCA law enforcement officers who were accused (in their
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Uganda has sent samples of the suspected poisonous food to Kenya and South Africa for analysis. This is after three people from Amudat and Napak lost their lives after eating the food in question, while many others are fighting for their lives in health facilities. The food was supplied by
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Two more people were on Tuesday reported to have died of hunger in Baringo County in Kenya, Daily Nation reports. Most of the reported deaths have occurred in the county, although two were reported in Turkana County last week. Speaking during relief food distribution in Nginyang', Tiaty, Baringo County, on
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Former FDC President Mugisha Muntu has completed his split from the opposition party by having his owned cleared by the Electoral Commission. Muntu announced on Tuesday afternoon that his new party, "The Alliance For National Transformation" party has been cleared by the country's electoral body. "Today, the Electoral Commission has
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The Directorate of Public Prosecution has instructed the police to gather more evidence pinning Uganda's ambassador to Burundi Maj Gen Matayo Kyaligonza and his military police bodyguards for assaulting a police officer. The instruction was made after perusing through a file with statements recorded from Kyaligonza, his bodyguards Peter Bushindiki
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After three months, Airtel Uganda has today concluded the exciting ‘Beera Millionaire with Airtel Money’ promotion. Launched in December 2018, the promotion has changed the lives of over 200 Ugandans through employment opportunities, tuition, medical care and entrepreneurship. “At Airtel Uganda, we believe in growing with our customers. Beera Millionaire
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“The way you are behaving, you are antagonizing our old sugar people and I don’t know the relationship you have with small sugar people. Some of you have got a suspicious relationship with the small sugar people and now you are sabotaging my plan,” said President Yoweri Museveni last Friday
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The Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF), the leading African philanthropy committed to empowering African entrepreneurs, will announce the selected applicants for the 2019 cohort of the Foundation’s flagship Entrepreneurship Programme on March 22, 2019. The event, which marks the 5th round of the Foundation’s Entrepreneurship Programme, will take place at the
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