Author: Johnson Thembo

National Water and Sewerage Corporation (NWSC) and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) signed today a landmark agreement that will ensure reliable water provision for more than 84,000 refugees and local Ugandans in the south-west of the country. Under the Memorandum of Understanding, the NWSC will take over the management of the water distribution system and assets from UNHCR and the Office of the Prime Minister (OPM) in Rwamwanja refugee settlement, Uganda’s Kamwenge district. The system has been managed and maintained by UNHCR and OPM since 2012, when the settlement was reopened to receive new refugee arrivals from the Democratic…

In bid to boost service delivery and high levels of professionalism, the Uganda Police force has today opened another series of refresher courses. During this program, Over two hundred Front Desk Police officers from Kira, Kampala Metropolitan ,Ssezibwa and Greater Masaka Regions undergoing a two-day workshop in Customer Care at CID headquarters, Kibuli. AIGP Edward Ochom, Director Research and Planning opened the course and tasked them to actively protect the image of the force. A number of facilitators from within the Police and outside are expected to talk to the officers on how to improve customer care as they serve…

There is a growing need to have Parliaments across the world share in the responsibility of protecting the rule of law and human rights, alongside institutions such as courts of law and human rights organizations. According to the Speaker of Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga, the exclusion of Parliaments’ say on the universal human rights reporting system has come at a great cost to the oversight role, which she says ought to be urgently addressed and thus check on human rights violations worldwide. “The oversight role of Parliaments can be key in identifying and ending human rights abuses. In Uganda, the visit…

Uganda’s Deputy Chief of Defence Forces (D/CDF) Lt Gen Wilson Mbasu Mbadi has met MONUSCO Force Commander Lt Gen Elias Rodrigues Martins Filho at the Ministry of Defence and Veteran Affairs headquarters Mbuya. The dual discussed the current security situation in the region and reiterated the commitment of both sides to continue implementing available security mechanisms to neutralize negative forces in Eastern DRC. Lt Gen Wilson Mbadi in his remarks thanked MONUSCO Force Commander for the Force’s recent efforts to neutralize ADF’s capacity to commit atrocities against the people of Eastern DRC and destabilize the region. He commended the current…

Residents of Lira, Apac, Aduku and Pader fruitfully celebrated 2019 Independence Day with priceless gifts that were given to them by Fortebet. Fortebet promotions team visited all its seven branches in Lira town before proceeding to its main branches in Pader and Apac plus Aduku. This took place over the weekend, just a few days after Mother Uganda celebrated her independence. Fortebet gave out 7 new brand Techno F1 phones in addition to European club jerseys, T-shirts while other people walked away with caps and wristbands. “You have made this company number one betting centre in Uganda, this is the…

HiPipo, through its Include Everyone program recently honoured ‘Kenya’s Bill Gates’ – Kamal Budhabhatti with the Africa FinTech CEO of the Year award. This prestigious accolade was presented to Kamal Budhabhatti during the 2019 Include Everyone Summit and Digital Impact Awards Africa held on 20th September 2019 in Kampala, Uganda and attended by over 300 delegates from across Africa. According to HiPipo CEO, Innocent Kawooya, “the Africa FinTech CEO of the Year award goes to an outstanding Chief Executive/Managing Director who has created or spearheaded cutting edge innovation, a FinTech leader who may have taken a calculated risk and the…

As part of its contribution to the MenStar Coalition, the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF) today announced an investment of USD 25 million to the Global Fund to Fight AIDSdedicated to scaling HIV self-testing. Countries, including Uganda will be able to apply for a portion of the funds to support self-testing. CIFF announced the contribution at the Global Fund Replenishment Summit held in Lyon France. Miles Kemplay, Executive Director for Adolescence at CIFF said, “CIFF is championing HIV self-testing and other methods to promote self-care as one of the most powerful ways for youth, women and men to take control…

President Yoweri Museveni has warned leaders against eroding God’s trust by engaging in corruption, which he said has caused instabilities in the past. Museveni said while the African continent is taking its place in economic growth amidst the decline of powerful economies, such growth comes with temptations for leaders, who he said could ruin their chances if they don’t avoid corruption. “I have seen for the last 60 years how people have been ruining their chances…do not be corrupt; don’t agree to take a bribe, don’t ask for it; I have never taken a bribe or accepted any bribe from…

The US has said it will impose visa restrictions on Chinese officials accused of involvement in repression of Muslim populations. It follows the decision on Monday to blacklist 28 Chinese organisations linked by the US to allegations of abuse in the Xinjiang region. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the Chinese government had instituted “a highly repressive campaign”. China has dismissed the allegations as groundless. In a statement, Mr Pompeo accused the Chinese government of a string of abuses against Uighurs, ethnic Kazakhs, Kyrgyz Muslims and other minority Muslim groups. These included “mass detentions in internment camps; pervasive, high-tech…

The Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Jacob Oulanyah, has made a call to Christian government leaders to devise ways of tackling the continued supply of war arms to war ravaged countries, especially in Africa. He warned that unless countries that supply arms stop, people will continue killing each other. “The wars that are being fought in Africa; the guns are not made in Africa. brothers kill brothers and sisters kill sisters,” Oulanyah said. Oulanyah made the call during the Christian Government Leaders Summit at King David’s Hotel in Jerusalem, Israel on Sunday, 6 October 2019. The summit was attended by…