Uganda Uranium Not For Nuclear Bomb Making - Museveni
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.
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.
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.
The first navigable databases for Angola, Kenya, Malawi, Mauritius, Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia in Africa from Tele Atlas have become available, facilitating Tele Atlas customers such as Google and TomTom to launch solutions across the continent. The database also includes coverage for the French Overseas Territories of Guadeloupe, Martinique, Mayotte, Réunion, Saint Barthélemy and Saint Martin.
MTN Uganda has launched m-banking service, enabling its subscribers to transfer money using their mobile phones. MTN Uganda CMO Isaac Nsereko said they have over 600 transaction points across the country where money can be sent or received and the service will work across networks. The subscriber have to open a mobile account with MTN