By:  Joyce Babirye and Kisiriko Vincent The Statistical Disaster Monitoring Network ranks Uganda 15th in the world and first in Africa for disasters. This is due to the enormous disasters the country has experienced in the last two decades. This phenomenon is exhibited in mudslides, landslides, flooding, storms, fires, earthquakes and droughts. Kampala, Northeastern

      By: Ismael Kasooha KAMPALA Prime Minister Robinah Nabbanja, on Tuesday chaired a multi-sectoral meeting to receive an update on the flood disaster situation which occurred in Mbale City. Development partners who attended the meeting, pledged a wide range of intervention measures to contain the situation. UN Agencies in attendance

By Ismael Kasooha Mbale The Prime Minister Rt. Hon. Robinah Nabbanja has condoled with the people of Elgon sub region who lost their dear ones as a result of floods that swept the low-lying areas of Mbale and Kapchorwa on Sunday. This is after the rain that started on Saturday at 8pm until about 7am