Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A retired Chemistry teacher Jaffer Alekua has faulted the government for failing to sustain quality training for science teachers, an approach which has negatively impacted the performance of learners. Alekua, who trained from the Institute of Teacher Education-Kyambogo –ITEK in the 60’s, was …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Electricity bills and purchase of medical equipment have taken the biggest portion of the budget for the newly elevated Luweero Hospital. According to the 334,382,000 shillings primary health care budget approved by the Hospital Management Committee, the electricity bill, stands out as the biggest …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | City traders have suspended their planned strike after agreeing with Uganda Revenue Authority-URA to temporarily suspend it directive stopping them from putting their goods in customs warehouses in Mombasa and compel them to pay taxes immediately they reach the port entry. The directive, which had …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The management of Makerere University Business School-MUBS has failed to explain the source of 9.9 billion shillings that was spent over and above the institutions’ allocated budget. The University officials had appeared before Parliaments Public Accounts Committee yesterday to respond to queries raised by the …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Many Ugandan adolescents are drifting into pornography, as a result of limited publicity about age appropriate information at health facilities and schools and an increase in absentee parents. Counsellors, teachers and health experts fear that as parents keep a distance between them and their children, …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Medical records practitioners under their umbrella body, Uganda Medical Records and Health Informatics Professional’s Association-UMRHIPA are in the next line of protesters over salary. The records officers are bitter over what they describe as discrimination in the health sector. They complain that while their …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Police crime intelligence and flying squad units have arrested key suspects in the killing of an ISO operative Hussein Mutyaba. Mutyaba was shot dead by thugs on October 6 at Bulaga, along Kampala –Mityana highway when he tried to pursue them after robbing two mobile …

Cairo, Egypt | AFP | Egypt’s foreign minister confirmed Tuesday that his country would take part in mediated talks in Washington next month over a controversial dam Ethiopia is building on the Nile. Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia “will meet in the United States on 6 November… to break the deadlock in …

Washington, United States | AFP | Facebook came under fresh criticism Tuesday for its hands-off approach to political speech, as a group of employees and US lawmakers called on the social network to apply fact-checking for politicians spreading misinformation. A letter from Facebook employees urged the company to crack down on …

London, United Kingdom | AFP | Boris Johnson came close but failed to deliver Brexit by October 31. Now Britain’s prime minister faces a legacy defining election that will test all of his campaigning skills. The mop-headed politician managed in three months to do something his predecessor Theresa May failed to …