Author: Johnson Thembo
Kyadondo East MP Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine has just escaped arrest by military in Kakiri town located in Wakiso District. People Power spokesperson, Joel Ssenyonyi, said a short while ago [Thursday evening], police and military stormed a hotel in Kakiri town where Honourable Kyagulanyi (Bobi Wine) and his team were meeting People Power leaders. “Bobi, myself and others have stealthily fled through some bushes,” Ssenyonyi said. He added: “We are now well on our way to safety. This regime is so scared!” Women in the struggle On Tuesday, Tuesday 22nd October 2019, the Women Wing of the People Power…
The Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Jacob Oulanyah, has urged underprivileged youth to use their humble beginnings as a stepping stone to better themselves and take advantage of any opportunity handed to them. Oulanyah made the remarks while visiting the Watoto Suubi Children’s Village, a child based community for orphans and disadvantaged children in Maya, Mpigi District, on Monday. Oulanyah told the children that they are so lucky and blessed to have a Pastor like Gary and his wife to impact the lives of people who will propagate God’s purposes. “It is good to see that there are institutions like this…
Pearl Dairy Farms Limited, the producers of LATO Milk, have launched flavoured long-life milk range in Tetra Brik® Aseptic125ml pack. The highly nutritious milk drink in three flavours: – Vanilla, Strawberry and Chocolate will retail at UGX 1,000 per pack. Dubbed ‘Anytime nutrition’ the pack will provide convenience and affordability to the consumers. According to Pearl Dairy company officials the product is the first of its kind available in the Ugandan market. While launching the product today, at the LATO Milk offices in Kololo, Mr. Amit Sagar, Pearl Dairy Chief Executive Officer,expressed his excitement in the new product and its…
The Uganda Girl Guides Association (UGGA) has launched a fundraising drive aimed at raising awareness and funds toward hosting the historic World Conference of Girl Guides. The body which has been in existence in the country since 1914 is affiliated to the global World Association of Girl Guides and Scouts (WAGGS). Speaking to members of the media during a press briefing at Golf Course Hotel, Ms Molly Grace Akello the Chief Commissioner of the UGGA said, “The Uganda Girl Guides Association will host a fundraiser gala dinner on Friday 25th October aimed at raising funds for hosting The 37th World…
New £100 million private sector funding to tackle malaria will be doubled by UK aid, to help stop six million cases of malaria and save 75,000 lives. Every death from malaria is “a preventable tragedy”, International Development Secretary Alok Sharma said today, as he doubled £100 million of private sector support to fight the disease. Mr Sharma announced UK aid would boost the funding from organisations like the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Nando’s. The UK’s support will come from its £1.4 billion pledge in June this year to tackle AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria through the Global Fund. It…
Pan African Parliament (PAP) MPs have honoured President Robert Gabriel Mugabe, referring to him as a fervent Pan-Africanist who defended his country and Africa on the world stage. The motion to honour the late former President of Zimbabwe was moved by Hon. Jaynet Kabila (DR Congo) and seconded by Hon. Haidara Aïchata (Mali, PAP 2nd Vice President) with support from Hon. Jacqueline Amongin (Uganda) during the plenary sitting on Wednesday, 16 October 2019 in South Africa. Speaker after speaker were all praises for Mugabe, who ruled Zimbabwe for 38 years. He died in a Singapore hospital on 6 September 2019…
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…