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President Uhuru Kenyatta has proposed a fuel tax cut from 16 to eight per cent, meaning the price of petrol will drop from Sh127 to Sh118 and that of diesel from Sh115 to Sh107. The president announced this during a national address on Friday, on matters including Finance Bill, 2018, which he reviewed and returned to Parliament on Thursday evening. President Kenyatta began his televised address from State House, Nairobi County, with a breakdown of development projects since the Jubilee administration took over in 2013. He noted that more than Sh1 trillion has been transferred to counties since that year…
The Uganda Parliamentary Forum on Children (UPFC) wants Parliament to incorporate provisions relating to child marriages into the Sexual Offenses Bill. The Chairperson of UPFC, Hon. Bernard Atiku (Ind., Ayivu) said that this will protect girls and women against all forms of harmful sexual practices. Atiku was appearing before the Parliamentary Select Committee investigating sexual harassment in institutions of learning. The committee was instituted following a motion moved by the National Female Youth MP, Anna Adeke Ebaju urging Parliament to investigate the increasing cases of sexual harassment in institutions of learning. “Uganda still ranks among the two leading countries in…
Parliament has rubbished media reports that MPs are demanding tax payers to pay Over The Top (OTT) Taxes for them. On Thursday, Obongi County MP Hassan Kaps Fungaroo rose on point of procedure seeking guidance following the inconveniences caused by their inability to pay OTT Tax on their iPads, thus constraining their activities. His statement was conceived on social media and some sections of the media as a move being orchestrated by MPs to push the burden on tax payers to pay for them the taxes. In a statement issued on Friday, Parliament has clarified saying that it is incorrect for…
Burundi’s ambassador in Geneva says the issue of expelled U.N. human rights experts from Bujumbura is being twisted to paint his country’s government in a bad light. Renovat Tabu had been summoned by the U.N. Human Rights Council on Tuesday to explain why his government had thrown out a U.N. team that the Council, with Burundi’s backing, had sent to investigate human rights abuses in the country. Deputy Human Rights Commissioner Kate Gilmore told the Council that her office could not deliver a promised report on human rights in Burundi because the government had not cooperated with the expert team,…
The European Parliament has Thursday issued a resolution on Uganda over the arrest and alleged torture of parliamentarians from the opposition. The resolution that puts President Yoweri Museveni and his government on spotlight comes after the August 17 joint local statement by the European Union Delegation, the Heads of Mission of Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden and the UK and the Heads of Mission of Norway and Iceland on the by-election held in the municipality of Arua. The Arua Municipality by-election campaigns turned chaotic resulting to the arrest of several opposition leaders including Kyadondo East…
Upon return from Ethiopia where president Museveni attended the IGAD Summit, he was able to tour different Saccos in Wakiso and Kampala districts. President offered working tools and start-up capital to groups including Katabi Artisans Sacco, Najja Furniture and Metal Works Association, Namasuba Furniture Makers Association, Kibuye Furniture Makers, Kibuye Welders Group, Nalukolongo Furniture Makers Association and Busega Welders and Furniture Makers groups. Ugandans spend over Shs18,000 billion annually importing all sorts of things and yet this means they are giving away not just money but jobs to people in other countries. “Take the example of hides and skin. Uganda sells…
Hardly a day after Busongora North County William Nzoghu asked for security saying his life is in danger, another MP has on Thursday also cried out for the same. Buhweju County MP Francis Mwijukye is now the latest to complain that his life could also be in danger after suscipious people have of late been trailing him. On Thursday, FDC’s Mwijukye rose on the floor of Parliament on a matter of national importance calling out on government to address issue of insecurity in the country. He narrated a tale of how he was followed around by an unknown car and…
“Food is everything we are. It’s an extension of nationalist feeling, ethnic feeling, your personal history, your province, your region, your tribe, your grandma. It’s inseparable from those from the get-go.” – Anthony Bourdain Several million miles away from home and you are wondering what to eat. When you travel to a different continent, you don’t only deal with the change in weather, culture and lifestyle. You also have to adapt to the local food. Jumia, Africa’s leading online food delivery service looks at a couple of Uganda’s delicious foods: Rolex – To prepare Uganda’s most popular street food, a…
The Rt Hon. Prime Minister Dr. Ruhakana Rugunda together with Cabinet Ministers have today toured the newly constructed Mulago Hospital Specialised women and Neonatal Hospital; officially handed over by the Arab contractors. The Hospital will handle such cases as High Risk ANC, Gynecology, Delivery and Post Natal Services, IVF, Laproscopic surgeries and many other cases. Equipment for the hospital was procured at a cost of $8,026,456.7 for highly specialized health care. The state of the art Mulago Hospital will be open to the public beginning Monday 17th September, 2018. See pictures below.
A U.S. bishop accused of molesting adults resigned on Thursday, in the latest sex abuse scandal to rock the Catholic Church. Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Monsignor Michael J Bransfield as bishop of Wheeling-Charleston in the U.S. state of West Virginia, a Vatican statement said. Separately, the Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston said on its website that Bransfield, 75, will be investigated over “allegations of sexual harassment of adults.” The probe is to be led by Baltimore Archbishop William Lori, who was named interim leader of the diocese. He pledged to “conduct a thorough investigation into the troubling allegations.” “A…