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Long-Term Mass Drug Treatment Can Eliminate River Blindness - Study
East Africa: In a First for East Africa, Scientists Find Evidence That Onchocerciasis (River Blindness) May Be Eliminated After 14 Years of Long-Term Mass Drug ...
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Eskom Marks Ten Years in Uganda
ESKOM Uganda Ltd (EUL) was incorporated on November 22, 2002, and was awarded a concession to operate and maintain Nalubaale and Kiira Hydro Power stations in Jinja for 20 years. EUL took over operations and maintenance of the complex from Uganda Electricity Generation Company Ltd on April 1, 2003. ...
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New Study Highlights Need to Continue Fight Against River Blindness
Uganda: Onchocerciasis (River Blindness) Could Make Comeback in Northwestern Uganda If Annual Drug Administrations to Fight Parasitic Disease Are Stopped, New Study ...
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Micho Appointed Uganda Cranes Coach
SERBIAN tactician Milutin "Micho" Sredojevic has been unveiled as the new Cranes coach on a 2yr deal this afternoon at FUFA House in Mengo. The Cranes job recently went vacant following the sacking Bobby Williamson. The Scotsman, a record four time CECAFA winner, failed on his key assignment of taking the Cranes to the final tournament of the Africa Cup of Nations. Speaking briefly ...
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Uganda leaders legacy at stake in generals case
Ugandan Police surround the offices of the Daily Monitor newspaper, preventing all journalists from leaving according to the paper's political editor, in Kampala, Uganda Monday, May 20, 2013. Ugandan police forcibly entered the premises of the independent newspaper to look for evidence against an army general who recently questioned the president's alleged plan to have his son succeed ...
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Tribert Rujugiro Ayabatwa Announces Ground Breaking of New Uganda Factory
ARUA, Uganda, May 21, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --Pan African Tobacco Group (PTG) Founder TribertRujugiro Ayabatwaannounced today that ground has been broken on the company's new $20 million tobacco processing and production operation in northern Uganda. The new warehouse and factory, located in Arua, will be operational in five months and will produce its own water and electricity. Once up and ...
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VP Ssekandi Mbabaali Draw Court Battle Lines
Vice president Edward Ssekandi and his political nemesis Jude Mbabaali have drawn the battle lines in a Constitutional Court petition where the Ssekandi is accused of using state resources during the February 18, 2011 Bukoto Central parliamentary polls. The battle lines were drawn on Monday at the Constitutional Court in Kampala, where the parties appeared before the registrar Erias Kisawuzi. ...
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13000 Kasese Pupils Could Miss School
WITH the beginning of the second term hardly a week away, the fate of nearly 13,000 schoolchildren in Kasese hangs in balance following the destruction of school facilities by the recent floods. According to the latest district disaster assessment report, the disaster affected up to 12,991 pupils in 20 primary schools. The report was signed by William Kanyesigye, the chief administrative ...
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New Local Govt Finance Commission Sworn in
The Acting Deputy Chief Justice, Steven Kavuma, has urged the newly appointed members of the Local Government Finance Commission to uphold the qualities the appointing authority saw in them. "Your appointment is a clear manifestation of the confidence the appointing authority has in each of you, because of your dedication to work and leadership skills. So, I call upon all of you to uphold ...
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Uganda Fails to Hit Maternal Health Target
WITH barely two years left to the deadline for the realisation of the Millennium Development Goals (MGDs), Uganda is still short of meeting the target of reducing the maternal mortality rate. Hellen Clark, the visiting administrator of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), said although Uganda was on course in meeting some of the eight targets, maternal mortality and HIV rates were ...
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Uganda news editor cries foul over raid
A police raid on a daily newspaper in Uganda is evidence of government-backed media harassment, the newspaper's managing editor said. Two radio stations were closed Monday and police raided the offices of The Daily Monitor, the largest independent newspaper in Uganda. Police spokeswoman Judith Nabakooba told Bloomberg News that authorities had a court order to search the newspaper's ...
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Wolokoso - MP Kiyingi Worries His Dad
The father of Mawokota South MP Kenneth Joseph Bbosa Kiyingi is a worried man, after his son started taking what the old man regards as 'strange statements'. Kiyingi was recently one of the MPs who signed a Public Service and Local Government committee report that literally urges President Museveni to take over Kampala. City tycoon Ssalongo Bbosa, who deals in P.K chewing gum, has ...
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Orphanage Tycoon in Bitter Land Row
A fierce row is raging between a financially-constrained orphanage, which looks after 30 children, and a city tycoon, who allegedly grabbed the orphanage's land. The row between Jesus & Me Children's Ministries and a car dealer identified as Moses Kisekka, over a plot of land located in Kalambi village, Wakiso district, started in 2010. David Knowlton Japaini, the ...
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Police shut down search Ugandan newspaper offices
Ugandan police closed down the offices of the Daily Monitor after it ran a series of articles about the president making his son successor, journalists said. Longtime Ugandan ...
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Ugandan Jailed for Drugs Trafficking
Two weeks after the arrest of an UNMIL staff Siryon Gerbah and two of his alleged accomplices, Miatta Stephen and Maxwell D. Julius with L$1.5m worth of compressed marijuana in Cape Mount County, agents of the Drugs Enforcement Agency (DEA) have arrested a Ugandan national with 0.53 kilograms of heroin. According to DEA charge sheet, suspect Tebandeke Sowedi, 53, was arrested at the Roberts ...
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Oulanyah Nambooze Clash Over KCCA Report
Mukono Municipality MP Betty Nambooze has accused Deputy Speaker Jacob Oulanyah of stoking controversy in Parliament. An angry Nambooze told a news conference at the Parliamentary Members' lounge on Friday that she had asked Oulanyah not to accept the Public and Local Government's committee report into the in fights at Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) until she returned from a ...
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Uganda police shut down newspaper radio stations
published a private letter by General David Sejusa calling for an investigation into allegations of a plot "to assassinate people who disagree with this so-called family project of holding onto power in perpetuity". Uganda's media regulator warned it would "penalise" excessive coverage about the Sejusa letter and a court ordered the Daily Monitor to hand over the ...
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Ugandan police raid newspapers to discover storys source
Yoweri Museveni .On 7 May, the Daily Monitor published an article about the so-called "Muhoozi project". It claimed that there was a conspiracy to frame, or eliminate, high-ranking members of the government who do not support a plan for Museveni's son, Brigadier Muhoozi Kainerugaba, to assume power when his father steps down.The story was based on a leaked letter written on 29 ...
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Land - Nantaba Defies Another Court Order
Junior Lands Minister Idah Nantaba has ignored a High court order stopping her from handling a land dispute involving the Permanent Secretary in the ministry of Works and Transport, Charles Muganzi. The ownership of the land, in Sekiwunga village Wakiso district, is being contested by Caroline Twala, Lorente Ndagire, Anna Nagadya and Deezi Namatimba in the High court at Nakawa. However, even ...
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Land - Nantaba Faces 11 Suits
Concerned about the at least 11 court cases against junior Lands minister Idah Nantaba, Attorney General Peter Nyombi has cautioned the zealous minister not to overstep her mandate. Nantaba also heads a newly-formed committee on illegal land evictions. And Nyombi's caution followed a Tuesday press conference where Nantaba scoffed at suggestions she could be overwhelmed by lawsuits. ...
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Who Should Own Ugandas News Media
Every May 3, matters of media freedom come under renewed focus, as we mark World Press Freedom day. And this month has not been any different. Over the years, journalists in countries like Uganda have come under sustained attack from governments that fear enlightened masses. Ugandan journalists have endured increasing physical brutality, meted out by security forces cheered on, literally, by ...
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Uganda How Mayiga Took Buganda Top Job
At 3:05pm on Monday, May 13, Buganda kingdom Katikkiro (prime minister) JB Walusimbi officially stepped aside to make way for his successor Charles Peter Mayiga. Walusimbi gave a small speech that carried a word of caution for Mayiga: "It is not easy to serve this kingdom." His retirement comes during the year of the 20th coronation anniversary of Kabaka Ronald Muwenda Mutebi II. For ...
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Uganda Narcotics - Uganda Under Tight Scrutiny
More international arrests of people from Entebbe International airport with narcotic drugs have put Uganda under pressure to control the drugs trade in the country. A crackdown on drug dealers has taken on greater urgency as the number of arrests and convictions climb monthly in Uganda and abroad. Just this month, a woman carrying narcotics collapsed and died on arrival at the Jomo Kenyatta ...
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Court Gives Tenants Three-Day Eviction Notice
Six tenants in Arua town are crying foul after the High court ordered for their eviction from a building on Plot 15, Transport road. The High court, sitting in Arua, on May 14, 2013, instructed Apollo Ezama Olema, the head of Vimba Associates bailiffs, to remove all tenants and leased the building to James Nyakuni, the owner of Gaagaa Bus Company. "You are hereby directed to put the said ...
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UCC Directs TV Broadcasters On Local Content
The Uganda Communications Commission (UCC) has issued a directive requiring television broadcasters to prioritise local content over foreign content, a move aimed at promoting national identity, culture and enhance benefits from works locally created. In a recent notice, UCC, the regulator of the communications and broadcasting sector, revealed that free to air television station licensees must ...
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