By Aloysious Kasoma Democratic Party President Norbert Mao has appointed Makerere University KCCA Councilor as a special envoy for youths to champion DP students Leadership in Uganda. Mao announced during the weekly DP press conference in Kampala that Bernard Luyiga who will be reporting to the party president as the …
Read More »Heart operations abroad to end soon
By Joan Akello Uganda Heart Institute (UHI) is in the process of commissioning its medical compressed air plant and a vacuum extraction pump. This comes at the time Mulago National Referral is building an oxygen plant. Dr. Omagino. O.O John, UHI Director, signed a 2.4 Million Shillings cheque instructing British …
Read More »Luwero Woman MP loses seat
By Julius Odeke High Court judge Vincent Zehurikirize on Thursday nullified the Luweero district Woman Member of Parliament Brenda Nabukenya’s Parliamentary seat over massive election rigging and bribery. The judge ordered for fresh elections to be conducted in Luwero district whereby voters shall elect the district woman representative. The case …
Read More »Uganda commemorates the East African Community week
By Julius Odeke The minister for the East African Community, Eriya Kategaya says the purpose as to why there is East African Community week is to provide us with an opportunity to reflect on the commitments we made in the EAC Treaty and to assess the progress made in translating …
Read More »Generation Change formally launched in Uganda
By Sarah Namulondo The US Mission has launched the Ugandan Chapter of generation change at Hotel Africana with 20 youths already participating in it. The US Ambassador Scott H. DeLisi at the launch said that the project launch will be followed by a two-days training on collaboration, networking, presentation skills, …
Read More »World Bank tips Uganda on nurturing her human capital
By Ronald Musoke The World Bank director of human development for the Africa region, Ritva Reinikka, has stressed the importance of Uganda and her peers in Africa to put an equal emphasis on human capital development just like they have been doing with infrastructure if they are to transition to …
Read More »Agriculture Sector Grows By 3%
By Joan Akello Performance of the agriculture sector has improved from 0.9 percent in 2010/11 to 3 percent in 2011/12. The increase is attributed to the performance of all sub sectors. However, Minister Of Agriculture , Animal Industry And Fisheries , Tress Bucyanayandi said, “ we have not achieved the …
Read More »The Marburg virus puzzle
By Sarah Namulondo Dr Thimm, the man at the centre of isolating the disease, explains why it is happening Since the ministry of Health declared an outbreak of the viral hemorrhagic fever, Marburg, in Kitumba sub-county in Kabale district on Oct.19, questions have been asked about the real cause, origin …
Read More »The health of the nation
By Melina Platas Izama Making sense of the contradictions and bipolar reality of Uganda’s health indices Since Uganda hit 50 recently, it seems as good a time as any to check its vitals. There is the heartbeat of the economy and the temperature of the masses, the pressure of the …
Read More »Rethinking healthcare costs
By Sarah Namulondo Dr Ian Clarke advocates changes in health sector salaries, budgeting and operations. Others in corruption-ridden sector protest. Even if it happened over a year ago, David Mugerwa, a smallholder farmer in the rural Luwero district of central Uganda, recounts the day his wife and newborn baby died …
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