By Rebecca Nabatanzi Sserwanga - Kampala, 13 October 2020. Every 13th of October, the world marks the International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction (IDDR) to promote a global culture of disaster risk reduction. It is an opportunity to acknowledge the progress being made toward reducing disaster risk and losses in lives, livelihoods and health. In view [...]
BY ISAAC MUGERA – The Government of the Peoples Republic of China has donated US Dollars 50,000, an equivalent of over USHS 194m, to the communities that were affected by the floods that recently swept across different parts of the country. The donation was delivered by the Chinese Ambassador to Uganda, H.E Zheng Zhu Qiang, to [...]
By Duniya Aslam Khan (UNHCR) in Zombo, Uganda | 1 July 2020 Available online at: https://www.unhcr.org/afr/news/latest/2020/7/5efcada04/uganda-opens-border-thousands-fleeing-congo-violence.html Country lifts COVID-19 closure to admit refugees escaping escalating violence in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. She is sick, she is frail and separated from her family. Emmanuelle Ochaya, 54 has been sleeping in a scanty makeshift hut, in the middle of [...]
BY JULIUS MUCUNGUZI - State Minister for Disaster Preparedness Hon Musa Ecweru TODAY 6th May 2020 presided over a GOU supported relief food distribution initiative by top religious leaders in Uganda, under their umbrella association known as the Inter Religious Council of Uganda (IRCU) and explained the progress that has been made delivering food to vulnerable [...]
BY JOYCE BABIRYE - The Office of the Prime Minister started the process of relocating 136 households from the disaster prone districts of Bududa, Manafwa, Sironko, Bulambuli, and Namisindwa from 6th to 21st,February, 2020. The people were allocated to Bunabutye settlement, in Bulambuli district. Phase 2 of the construction of 140 houses of 2 bedrooms each, [...]
By Isaac Mugera – H.E. The President of Uganda, Yoweri Kaguta Museveni and H.E. the President of Kenya, Uhuru Kenyatta have launched a major program to address the peace and development challenges facing people along the border areas of North Eastern Uganda and North Western Kenya. The Program code named, Cross-Border Programme for Sustainable Peace and [...]
By Isaac Mugera – The 1st Deputy Prime Minister of Uganda, Gen Moses Ali has assured refugees and the rest of the world that Uganda will maintain its ‘Open Door Policy’ for refugees as a way of commitment to humanitarian and peaceful living across the globe. Gen. Moses Ali addressing the congregation during the celebrations [...]
By Isaac Mugera - The Italian Regional Government of Sardinia has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Madi Sub region of Uganda, to promote Water Resources Management, Environment and Forestry as well as Crop and Livestock development. The MOU was signed in Adjuman District during a two-day summit that was organized by the Adjuman [...]
By Doreen Nasasira The Prime Minister Dr Ruhakana Rugunda has re-launched the Baraza programme at Kadama sub –county headquarters in Kibuku district. The Community based monitoring Fora Baraza is a Presidential initiative which was adopted in January 2009, and it aims at creating space for citizens’ participation in the development cycle by effectively watching and monitoring [...]
By Kyetume Kasanga There were varied reactions among sect ions of the Ugandan public when it was announced that Israel Premier Benjamin Netanyahu would visit Uganda on Monday, July 4 to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the 1976 Israel raid on Entebbe airport that saw Isareli hostages rescued under “Operation Thunderbolt”. Nelson Kakete, on his Facebook [...]
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