As Chaiman of the Commonwealth, President Museveni has flown to the UK to commemorate Commonwealth Day which is held on the 9th of March. This years theme for the commonwealth is to promote understanding on global issues, international co-operation and devise ways of improving the lives of its two billion citizens.
London - The British government have said it believed the automobile crash that injured Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai and killed his wife Susan was indeed an accident and not a politically motivated attack as some have alleged.
Kampala: Zain, the Telecom Group that took over Celtel in Uganda and has operations in Africa and the Middle East, has seen its profits increase by 26 percent from last years results despite the global economic downturn. The Group posted a $7.4 billion or Shs14.5 trillion in revenue.
President Yoweri Museveni has reiterated that Uganda’s uranium resource will not be for nuclear bomb making but for energy production, as per news from the Uganda Media Center. The President, who is currently in Eastern Uganda to launch the patriotism programme in secondary schools, was yesterday commissioning another group of 140 teachers from the Elgon sub-region at Mbale School for the Deaf in Bungokho South Constituency in Mbale district.
KAMPALA (AFP) — Uganda has launched an emergency drive to immunise
children against polio following the first confirmed case of the virus
to strike the country in 12 years, the health ministry said Wednesday.
KAMPALA (Reuters) - Uganda's annual
inflation rate decreased slightly to 14.3 percent in February from an
upwardly revised 14.4 percent in the previous month, the Uganda Bureau
of Statistics said on Friday.
The Executive has approved the long awaited domestic violence bill as hundreds of women march in the Capital Kampala in memory of women and children killed through acts of violence. The speaker of Parliament Edward Kiwanuka Sekandi joined by other legislatures lit a candle in front of parliament in support of the struggle to end violence against women.
Uganda 's President Yoweri Museveni and President Joseph Kabila have met in the western border town of Kasese and agreed to revive diplomatic ties between the two countries which have been at loggerheads in the recent past.
The Uganda police had embarked on a massive renovation exercise that will see police residences as well as work places renovated to improve the standards of living of police officers. The renovation exercise has started with Old Kampala police Barracks and will later spread to other parts of the country.
