Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Women have formed a network to encourage more women and girls into Uganda’s oil, gas, and minerals sector. Women in Energy and Extractives Network(WEEN) is a brainchild of the likes of Ziria Waako Tibalwa, the Executive Director of the Electricity Regulatory Authority, Proscovia Nabanja …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A study published today by researchers from the World Health Organization (WHO) and the University of Birmingham suggests that a new solution called E-MOTIVE could be a major breakthrough in reducing deaths related to bleeding during childbirth. Postpartum hemorrhage (PPH), defined as the loss …
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Kampala, Uganda | JULIUS BUSINGE | The former Minister of Trade Industry and Cooperatives Amelia Kyambadde has urged women in business to be innovative to be able to succeed in business. She was speaking during the World Intellectual Property Day celebrated on April 26, organized by Uganda Registration Services Bureau (URSB) …
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Beijing, China | Xinhua | Germany will host the FIBA Women’s Basketball World Cup 2026, and Qatar will host the FIBA Men’s Basketball World Cup 2027, the world basketball governing body announced on Friday. The decisions were made by FIBA’s Central Board during Friday’s meeting held in the Philippines on the …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Deputy Speaker of Parliament Thomas Tayebwa on Thursday prematurely adjourned the house following protests against Police brutality. Several MPS stood up expressing their displeasure about the Police for brutalizing eleven opposition female members of Parliament. Earlier in the morning, police arrested Joyce Bagala, the …
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Kasese, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Women leaders in Kasese district have asked the government to resettle the internally displaced persons in Muhokya Camp. They argue that women and young girls living in the camp have been exposed to untold suffering for more than two years. Angella Birungi, the Chairperson Kasese …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Electoral Commission has asked Parliament to provide an additional Shs80 billion required to conduct Women Council elections, whose term expired in 2022 and the Local Council elections due for July 2023. The money is part of the Shs542 billion the electoral body tabled …
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Kalangala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Women and children in Kalangala district are making fortunes in adding value to some of the neglected residues of the palm oil trees grown in the area. In 2000, the government with support from the International Fund for Agriculture Development-IFAD started mobilizing for the cultivation …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Registrar of the Court of Appeal has forwarded the file in which women opposition members under the Interparty Cooperation (IPC), challenged police brutality when they demonstrated against the Electoral Commission in 2010. The group petitioned the High Court accusing the police officers; Immaculate Mabuya …
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COMMENT | Judith Hope Kiconco | Ladies, can you remember of a time you got on your period out of home only to realise, you had not carried any pads? Or for women that experience a heavy flow during periods that you quickly run through what you had carried from home …
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