BY JOYCE BABIRYE - The UNHCR High Commissioner Mr. Filippo Grandi is visiting Uganda to gain an understanding of the refugee operations in a bid to increase support for refugees. On 9th March, 2021, he visited Yumbe district to see Bidi Bidi Refugee settlement which hosts 270,000 from South Sudan and the largest number of refugees in Uganda. He was [...]
BY ISAIAH KITIMBO Gulu – Office of the Prime Minister (OPM) has rallied leaders from the North to coordinate and monitor interventions of the Development Initiative for Northern Uganda (DINU), a Government programme supported by the European Union and supervised by OPM. The development that comes at the backdrop of OPM mandate, is aimed at strengthening [...]
BY ISAIAH KITIMBO - MOROTO. In a bid to enhance skills in community policing, Office of the Prime Minister under the Development Initiative for Northern Uganda (DINU), a government programme supported by the European Union, has collaborated with the Uganda Police Force in organising a series of training targeting 500 police officers from the nine districts [...]
BY ISAAC MUGERA, Communications Officer, OPM – The Japanese Ambassador to Uganda, H.E. Kameda Kazuaki, has today made a personal donation of Two Million Uganda Shillings (2,000,000/-) to support the Uganda government's response to the COVID-19 pandemic. H.E. Kameda (3rd left), and the Rt. Hon. Rugunda (Center), pose for photo with members of the COVID-19 [...]
BY JOYCE BABIRYE - Uganda currently hosts a total of one million four hundred refugees from different parts of the World, but mainly from South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Majority of these people have been forced to flee their countries because of civil wars and political persecution. West Nile region hosts the largest [...]
BY ISAAC MUGERA , Communications Officer - The Government of Uganda continues to receive donations for the COVID-19 Fund under the Office of the Prime Minister (OPM), to beef up the efforts geared towards the fight against the spread of the COVID-19. The latest donation was received yesterday, 13th August, 2020, from SOGEA-SATOM, an international building [...]
BY ISAIAH KITIMBO - OYAM. District leaders in Northern Uganda have commended the Development Initiative for Northern Uganda (DINU) for introducing the youth skilling programme (YSP) saying it will help to provide employment to the youth in the region. DINU is a government programme supported by the European Union and supervised by Office of the Prime [...]
BY ISAAC MUGERA, Communications Officer, OPM – General Wesley Clark, a retired army general of the United States Forces has donated 100,000 US Dollars, to the Ugandan government to support the fight against COVID-19 in Uganda. President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni received the donation from General Clark earlier this week, and in turn asked the Rt. Hon [...]
BY ISAAC MUGERA, Communications Officer, OPM – The Administrator of the National COVID-19 Response Fund, Ms. Dorothy Kisaka has received One Million, Seven Hundred Ninety Thousand Shillings (1,790,000/-) contributed by 45 staff of the Uganda Business and Technical Examinations Board (UBTEB) for the COVID-19 response. The staff, who were represented by the UBTEB Senior Communications Officer, [...]
BY ISAAC MUGERA - The Office of the Prime Minister (OPM) has re-launched the settlement exercise for landless Ugandans who encroached on government land that was meant for refugees in Kyangwali refugee camp. The Rt. Hon. 1st Deputy Prime Minister, Gen. Moses Ali, launched the exercise on Saturday 25th July 2020 at the Kasonga Primary School [...]
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