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Govt Urged to Levy a Tax On Alcohol to Fund HIV
As Uganda counts a 40% reduction in AIDS-related deaths in the past decade, the Uganda AIDS Commission (UAC) wants Government to levy a special tax on alcohol and cigarette to fund HIV programmes. According to UAC Executive Director Dr. Kihumuro Apuuli, AIDS account for 60,000 annual deaths today, down from over 100,000 in the late 1990s. The reduction is attributed to the increasing access to ...
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Uganda Commonwealth Delegates for Tourism Campaign
Commonwealth delegates head to Jinja tomorrow, Saturday, for the 'Paint the City Bright' campaign. The campaign coordinated by Yudaya Babirye, a managing partner with Metro Green, working in partnership with Jinja Municipal Council (JMC) and the Private Sector will see over seventy buildings painted. Babirye said over 200 delegates from the Commonwealth for Local Governments forum ...
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Pader LC5 Councillors Arrested Over Corruption
The Police in Pader are holding three LC 5 councillors who were arrested over alleged corruption cases worth sh6m. The councillors detained by the police include Geoffrey Largo Oringa, 38 of Pajule sub-county, Francis Toolit, 44 (Acholibur sub-county) and Kennedy Jimmy Akena, 25 of Ogom sub-county. Akena is the chairman of finance, planning and administration, works and technical services. All ...
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Ten Receive Free Open Heart Surgeries
Ten children with heart problems have undergone free open heart surgeries at Uganda heart institute Mulago. The surgeries were carried out by a team of Ugandan doctors and a ten-member team from Chain of Hope UK with support from Gift of Life International (GOLI). The deputy director of the Institute Dr. Peter Lwabi said the camp which started on Monday ends today (Friday). "This camp ...
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Sri Lankan President Rajapaska Praises Ugandas Beauty
President Mahinda Rajapaska of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka has praised Uganda's tourism industry for its promotion and conservation efforts of wildlife and said they have greatly enhanced the country's national beauty. President Rajapaska was in the country on a four-day official visit. He was among the high profile personalities who addressed the 7th Commonwealth ...
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Coffee Farmers to Get Pre-Harvest Loans
Plans have been finalised to help Coffee farmers in the Rwenzori region access pre-harvest loans to curb the practice of picking unripe coffee berries. The move is intended to improve the quality of coffee produced in the region in order to attract better prices on the international market. This decision was reached during a meeting on Monday between representatives of four international ...
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Uganda Health Service Providers Warned
State minister for primary health care, Sarah Opendi, has asked health service providers to make their messages clear to the public to reduce risks of health infections in society. "We need to provide the population with the right and accurate information during these outreach programmes because everyone has a right to make an informed decision as regards to reproductive health." ...
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Uganda Three Arrested Over Night Prayer Girls Murder
Three suspects have been arrested over the gruesome murder of an 8-year old girl who was defiled and strangled during night prayers at Pastor Wilson Bugemebe's church. The suspects, Julius Ssekandi 29, Francis Kizito 40 and Joram Kintu 50, all residents of Ganda in Wakiso district were arrested during a Wednesday night operation to shade light on the horrific murder of Desire Nakalanzi. ...
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Family Crumbles As Ex-Soldier Is Held for 10 Years Without Trial
Capt Amon Byarugaba has spent 10 years in a military jail and his continued detention appears to have broken the spine of his family. Byarugaba's son, Joseph Baguma, says their mother, Teopista Namusisi, has since left home, while he and many of his siblings dropped out of school. "Our mother succumbed to pressure because operatives continued to come home and haunt us. She left home ...
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UN Boss Hails Women Conservation Project
A women's fish farming project that emphasises conserving biodiversity on Lake Victoria, has been hailed by the UN Development Programme Administrator, Helen Clark. The project, in Kigungu village in Entebbe, incorporates waste disposal and water pollution and minimizes loss of biodiversity. Jane Nakitto, the general secretary of the 30-member group, says before they started fish farming, ...
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I Wont Defend Kadaga in Court - Ag Nyombi
Attorney General Peter Nyombi has taken a different path in pursuit of justice against the four rebel MPs expelled by NRM. The government legal advisor says he will not defend Speaker Rebecca Kadaga in a suit against her ruling that allowed the four MPs to stay in Parliament. Nyombi told The Observer by telephone that while his office had a legal obligation to represent government departments ...
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Wheels - My Rav4 Has Made Life Easy
John Paul Baggotee, BJP as his friends call him, is a Civil Engineering finalist at Makerere University. Since he got his Toyota Rav4, early last year, his school activities have been made easier - especially the field work. He told Joseph Kimbowa about his ...
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Miss Teen Search Returns With Bang
Every high school girl should be brushing up her talent because Mirinda's Miss Teen is back this Saturday at the Garden City rooftop. The annual teens' talent contest promises to be bigger and reloaded after the sponsors, Crown Beverages Limited, secured naming rights and changed it to Mirinda Miss Teen. Mirinda Miss Teen showcases the talent and character of today's teenage ...
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Black Tie Etiquette for Formal Events
After a recent royal wedding, questions abound as to whether the male guests invited to this fete actually read their invitation to the letter. A royal wedding, by its nature, dictates, without much room for manoeuvre, what one is expected to wear and the conduct. Expectedly, the week following the occasion, the local press was awash with pictures of 'who was there' and 'who wore ...
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Uganda Mulago Deaths - We Need to Re-Vocationalise the Professions
A vibrant young engineer was buried in Buhweju Tuesday. Donald Kamugisha, 36, worked for Power Networks limited. But for the many who knew Donald personally, the most hurtful thing was not his death per se, but the manner of it. Mourners heard that after getting an accident on the Northern Bypass, Donald was assisted by good Samaritans and taken to Mulago hospital by police. But for about an ...
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Uganda City Tycoon Family Fight Over Property
Kampala tycoon Dick Ssekalala Kizito and his family are rowing over alleged stolen family property worth millions of shillings. The angry family members accuse Kizito of grabbing and selling off the family property, inherited from their late father Lawrence Kizito. The property includes the Kizito Towers building on Luwum street and several other business premises and residential houses in ...
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Uganda shilling up on inflows from exporters charities
greenback . At 0932 GMT commercial banks in Kampala quoted the currency of east Africa's third-largest economy at 2,560/2,570, stronger than Thursday's close of 2,575/2,585. "The market has inflows from the usual commodity exporters and NGOs (non-governmental organisations) while there's not much activity on the demand side," ...
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High School Dropout Worries Women Activists
The high dropout rate among primary school going girls needs urgent intervention, women activist have demanded. The activists are also concerned about the soaring numbers of women who die daily in pregnancy-related complications in the country. The activists raised the concerns in a meeting held in Kampala. Recent government reports on education estimate that of the total number of pupils who ...
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8-Year-Old Defiled Murdered During Night Prayers
Tragedy befell Pastor Wilson Bugembe's church when an 8-year old girl was defiled and brutally murdered during night prayers. Desire Nakalanzi's body, whose private parts were raptured, was discovered hidden behind Bugembe's Light The World church in Kibulooka, a Nansana suburb notorious for crime, on Wednesday. At the crime scene were the girl's panties that had been ...
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Kagame Jets in for Local Govts Meet
Rwandan president, Paul Kagame, is in Kampala for the 7th Commonwealth local governments conference (CLGC). Kagame was received at Entebbe International airport by the foreign affairs minister, Sam Kutesa and minister for the presidency, Frank Tumwebaze. He is to address over 800 local governments ministers and delegates. The conference under the theme: "Developmental Local Government: ...
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KCCA Gets Sh77 Billion to Improve Health Centres
Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) has acquired a $30m (about sh77b) loan from the Africa Development Bank for the reconstruction of Kawempe and Kiruddu health centre IIIs. According to Robert Kalumba, the KCCA assistant spokesperson, the project is expected to start before the end of the year. "The groundwork for the projects is expected to start at the end of the year. It will take ...
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World Bank Gives Uganda $100 Million for Economic Reforms
Kampala - The World Bank said on Wednesday it had approved $100 million worth of credit for Uganda to help boost its economic growth and jobs, relieving fiscal pressure on the east African country squeezed by last year's aid cuts. In a statement, the bank said the credit line would finance the Competitiveness and Enterprise Development Project (CEDP)that would implement reforms in land ...
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MTN Contributes Sh10 Million for New All Saints Church
MTN Uganda Foundation has joined All Saints Cathedral in a drive to raise money to support the cathedral's community initiatives as well as construct the new church building. MTN Uganda's CEO Mazen Mroue said MTN is committed to supporting community activities and investing in sustainable initiatives for capacity building. "At MTN Foundation, we have focused our corporate social ...
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Search for Miss Uganda Heads West
After crowning Judith Acayo as the northern Uganda queen, the search for Miss Uganda 2013/14 is heading west on Saturday. The second queen of the four-region contest will take place at Mbarara's Big Fun bar, where the top three beauties will be identified. Judges will be looking out for a young, beautiful, confident girl aged between 18 and 24, who is at least five-feet and six inches ...
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Nakivubo Opens to an Uncertain Future
But on May 13, Jessica Alupo, the Minister for Education and Sports addressed the media about the future of Namboole stadium and the course it ought to take to improve. However, nothing was mentioned about Nakivubo stadium even by her deputy, Charles Bakkabulindi despite the fact that Nakivubo faces an uncertain future, writes John Vianney Nsimbe. Before the auctioneers could agree to the ...
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