Francis Zaake, the Mityana Municipality Member of Parliament has been dumped at Rubaga Hospital. Richard Lumu, Zaake's lawyer who is currently at Lubaga Hospital, says that Zaake was allegedly dumped at the facility on Friday morning by the army. According to Lumu, doctors at Rubaga have recommended that Zaake be
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The Speaker of Uganda’s Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga has called on government to lift the ban on fresh recruitment of health workers and physicians in public hospitals and health centres. She made the call while presiding over the launch of the strategic plan for Reproductive Maternal New born child and
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In the spring of 1994, Abdoul Salam Nizeyimana’s executioners arrived. It was about two weeks after the Hutu majority-controlled government stepped up its decades-long persecution of the Tutsi minority, calling on citizens to slaughter all Tutsis. Nizeyimana’s family was Tutsi, and it didn’t take long for the killers to come
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Police in south-western Tanzania have started arresting the residents of a village for vandalising some water pipes. The arrest of the entire village of Ngola was ordered by the area's regional commissioner Albert Chalamila on Wednesday. The residents are suspected of destroying a water facility worth about $20,000 (£16,000) in
Read MoreThe committee said that the Trust needs to ensure that the beneficiaries are supported through training and skills transfer as to be able to run the lodges instead of outsourcing the responsibility PRETORIA, South Africa, August 17, 2018,-/African Media Agency (AMA)/- The Portfolio Committee on Economic Development today expressed its
Read MoreAn estimated 65% of municipal organic waste, and nearly 100% of commercially exploitable biomass from the agricultural and food processing sectors, is still disposed of on land, resulting in significant potential for greenhouse gas emissions PRETORIA, South Africa, August 17, 2018,-/African Media Agency (AMA)/- Government has launched South Africa’s first
Read MoreThe two associations also committed to ensuring that their members fully comply with the relevant legislation at all times PRETORIA, South Africa, August 17, 2018,-/African Media Agency (AMA)/- The South African Revenue Service (SARS) met with the Tobacco Institute of Southern Africa (TISA) and the Fair-trade Independent Tobacco Association (FITA)
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The United States Embassy in Uganda has challenged the East African nation to show the world that it can respect the rule of law. The embassy made this call in tweet on Friday while commenting on the chaotic before and after the Arua by-election in Wednesday. It also expressed concern
Read MoreThe committee has been on a weeklong oversight, visiting National Health Insurance pilot sites visiting hospitals and clinics in UMgungundlovu district, tomorrow the committee will be in Durban PRETORIA, South Africa, August 17, 2018,-/African Media Agency (AMA)/- The Portfolio Committee on Health will tomorrow wrap up its oversight visit in
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The Uganda National Bureau of Standards (UNBS) has destroyed 413 metric tonnes of substandard goods worth Shs3.5 billion as it intensifies the fight against substandard products. The goods destroyed included electronics, cosmetics, steel products, iron sheets, food stuffs, toilet papers, agro-inputs, cooking oil, second hand tyres, beers, paints, and cereals,
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