Over 100,000 teenage mothers are on the verge of never returning to school if no critical interventions are put in check Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Save the Children has today supported the launch of the Ministry of Education and Sports nationwide ‘Safe Back to School’ campaign. The campaign will …
Read More »Over 3,000 girls in Amuru uncertain of returning to school
Amuru, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Over 3,200 girls in Amuru are not sure they will return to school due to teenage pregnancies and early marriages in the past year. The girls aged between 15 and 19 years were impregnated, eloped, or married off due to the nearly two years of …
Read More »KASSANDA: 2,500 cases of pregnancies after defilement in 10 months
Kassanda, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Authorities in Kassanda district have decried the increasing cases of defilement and teenage pregnancies following the COVID-19 induced closure of educational institutions. According to Kassanda District Probation Office, the district was tenth with a high defilement cases during the 2020 lockdown. The district registered …
Read More »Uganda to open shelter for stranded girls in UAE
Dubai, UAE | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Museveni has said that the government of Uganda is to open a shelter in the United Arab Emirates-UAE to shelter girls that get stranded in that country after being trafficked. Museveni made the pronouncement after discussions with the executive leaders of Ugandans …
Read More »Adjumani baby boom, maternity runs out of beds
Adjumani, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Adjumani hospital maternity ward is overwhelmed with the number of mothers who have been admitted to give birth in recent months and some mothers now sleep on the floor as all the beds are occupied. Pauline Idia the assistant district health officer in charge …
Read More »Bishop asks girls to stay away from priests
Lira, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Rt. Rev. Sanctus Lino Wanok, the Bishop of Lira Catholic Diocese has warned young girls to stay away from clerics especially priests and stop looking at them as marriage material. Speaking at the ordination of one priest and five deacons at a scientific event inside …
Read More »Kenyan repatriates 32 Karamojong girls
Busia, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Thirty two Karamojong girls and three of their infants have returned to Uganda through Busia one-stop border post following their repatriation by the Kenyan government. The returnees who are from Napak, Nakapiripirit and Moroto districts among others in Karamoja sub-region were stranded in …
Read More »Police raids Muyenga house, investigates reports of teenage girls and dogs
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Police have stormed a guest house on Muyenga Hill in Kampala and found 14 girls living in terrible conditions while being prepared to be taken to a European destination. Kampala Metropolitan Deputy Police Spokesperson, Luke Oweyesigyire said that the 14 girls were found at …
Read More »Acholi paramount chief calls for protection of girls in lockdown
Gulu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Rwot David Onen Acana II, the Paramount Chief of Acholi Cultural Institution has called for collective responsibility to protect young girls from sexual abuse as the country battles the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. Rwot Acana told URN during an interview at his palace …
Read More »Domestic Work: 500 Ugandan girls fly to Middle East daily
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | More than 500 girls leave Uganda each day for domestic work in the Arab World, an official from the Internal Affairs Ministry has revealed. Agnes Igoye, the Deputy Coordinator for Prevention of Trafficking in Persons in the Internal Affairs Ministry, says that although several …
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