By John Stephen Katende
14th Nov 2011: An energy and associated sectors industry delegation from the United Kingdom will arrive in Uganda today for a trade mission. The three day mission [14-16th November] will be (more…)
Uganda to ‘export’ teachers to South Sudan
By Sharon Tibenda
24th Oct 2011: President Yoweri Museveni has said Uganda will soon start ‘exporting’ teachers to South Sudan as a way of helping the new nation build its human resource capacity and (more…)
Museveni’s reaction to the Libyan crisis
By Yoweri Kaguta Museveni
22nd March 2011
By the time Muammar Gaddaffi came to power in 1969, I was a third year university student at Dar-es-Salaam. (more…)
Two million children targeted for polio vaccination
By Sharon S. Tibenda
22nd Nov 2010
Some two million children in Uganda will be targeted in a United Nations-backed immunization campaign that began on Saturday 20th after an outbreak of polio was detected last month. (more…)
WHO links poor health to urban poverty
By George Murumba
22nd Nov 2010
A new United Nations report shows for the first time how poor health is linked to poverty in cities. (more…)
Thousands of Southern Sudanese flee Khartoum
By Dennis Otim
15th Nov 2010
Thousands of southern Sudanese are fleeing the north as tension grows in the build-up to January’s referendum on possible southern independence. (more…)
‘Facing Justice’ radio show returns to the north
By Dennis Otim
8th Nov 2010
The Institute of War & Peace Reporting [IWPR’s] radio programme ‘Facing Justice’ has returned with a new series on five local stations in northern Uganda. (more…)
Kenya’s census campaign wins global PR award
By John Stephen Katende
8th Nov 2010
A Kenyan campaign which sparked widespread participation in the country’s 2009 population census has been chosen for the 2010 United Nations Grand Award for outstanding achievement in public relations. (more…)
African anti-polio campaign targets 72million
By Dennis Otim
1st Nov 2010
Nearly 300,000 health workers have begun combing through Africa with a view to reach and immunise 72million children against polio. (more…)
Leaked files link US to Iraq human rights abuses
By John Stephen Katende
1st Nov 2010
Leaked United States documents on the war in Iraq point to serious breaches of international human rights law, (more…)
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