By Flavia Nassaka Dr. Ruth Aceng, the Director General at the Ministry of Health, is cautioning Ugandans to go slow on consuming processed foodstuffs. She says as more people depend a lot on packed foods, they need to be aware that some of the processed foods include chemically-altered fats and …
Read More »UPC must return to normalcy – Otunnu
By Patrick Kagenda Outgoing UPC president, Olara Otunnu, wants the different factions of the party to focus on ways of avoiding strangling the party instead of spreading misinformation. Otunnu says he has offered an open door policy to the Akena group and others in a bid to discuss and have …
Read More »Opposition says revised elections roadmap useless without reforms
By Flavia Nassaka As the country warms up for the 2016 elections, the Electoral Commission (EC) on April 01 released the revised roadmap for the 2016 elections after the initial one being released two years ago. The new roadmap which highlights nomination and election dates comes amidst demands for electoral …
Read More »Museveni is addicted to rigging
By Joan Akello Prof. Edward Kakonge, National chairman of Uganda People’s Congress (UPC) talked to Joan Akello about politics and humanity. Any three things we don’t know about you? I believe in Jesus but not in religion or that there is heaven. So I want to maximize my life here; …
Read More »Prosecutor Kagezi case puts focus on target killings
By Haggai Matsiko A behind the scenes look at what could be behind them 7:20 PM, March 30: A vehicle pulls up at a roadside fruit stall in Kiwatule, a fast growing suburb of Kampala city along the Kisaasi-Najjera Road. The fruit stall is near a tree shade, in front …
Read More »Kagezi killing raises questions of safety of prosecutors
By Agather Atuhaire When Joan Kagezi, 47, the Assistant Director of Public Prosecutions at the war crimes division of the High Court, was on March.30 gunned down in front of some of her four kids, many could not hold back tears. It was her boss, Mike Chibita, the DPP, who …
Read More »To stay or not to stay
By Andrew M. Mwenda How the debate on amending the Constitution to remove term limits is evolving in Rwanda and the issues to consider President Paul Kagame recently said he does not want Rwanda to amend the constitution to remove term limits. But I do not think this will stop …
Read More »Ready for new dispensation
By Morris DC Komakech The old parties and current antics no longer have the capacity to propel us to a conjoined future Nigeria has completed its multiparty elections where an incumbent gracefully conceded defeat in an election. It is an unprecedented “first” of its kind in that nation. In Uganda, …
Read More »End this blatant abuse of NAADS
By Prof. Morris Ogenga-Latigo NRM is repeating UPC’s folly based on directive that only NRM supporters must benefit Mr. President, from joining Makerere University as a Lecturer in 1990, I have given my whole to the promotion of agricultural transformation in Uganda. In the Faculty of Agriculture, professors Patrick Rubaihayo, …
Read More »ARVs for HIV negative people
By Flavia Nassaka Should Health ministry approve PrEPs for people at high risk of infection? Irene Nakyeyune is negative for HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. So she did not feel any apprehension when she got pregnant. But that changed in April last year during one of her antenatal visits …
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