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 [...]
BY ISAIAH KITIMBO - KAMPALA – The Office of the Prime Minister (OPM) has procured six vehicles valued at more than Shs1 billion to support implementation of the Development Initiative for Northern Uganda (DINU) programme. DINU is a government of Uganda programme supported by the European Union (EU) and supervised by OPM. The programme aims to [...]
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 ISAAC MUGERA – Local leaders in the Districts of Bundibugyo and Ntoroko in Western Uganda have asked for more relief support from the Office of the Prime Minister (OPM), towards communities that were devastated by the effects of flooding and landslides in the region. Speaking to a team of OPM Officers from the Communications Unit [...]
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 REBECCA NABATANZI SSERWANGA - The Office of the Prime Minister (OPM) in partnership with United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) organised an online dialogue on managing multiple disasters amidst Covid 19. The inaugural dialogue brought together over 100 stakeholders from government agencies, academia, civil society, local government, private sector, development partners, youth representatives among others. Officiated [...]
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