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Mukono District Local Government on Tuesday, officially launched the Road Gangs Programme, a community-based road maintenance initiative aimed at improving access roads while creating employment and income-generating opportunities for residents. Deputy Chief Administrative Officer Mr. Stephen Muhumuza (in a suit) with other stakeholders The programme was launched during an engagement organized by the District Works and Engineering Department, bringing together …

COMMENTARY: ‘Little that is genuinely African’ at African Family Values conference  Alban Bagbin, the speaker of Ghana’s parliament, announces the suspension of proceedings from June 3 to 6 to allow parliament members to attend the 4th African Inter-Parliamentary Conference on Family and Sovereignty, which will be held in the Parliamentary Chamber.The LGBTQ rights advocacy group Rightify Ghana commented:As the Parliament of …

COMMENTARY: ‘Little that is genuinely African’ at African Family Values conference  Alban Bagbin, the speaker of Ghana’s parliament, announces the suspension of proceedings from June 3 to 6 to allow parliament members to attend the 4th African Inter-Parliamentary Conference on Family and Sovereignty, which will be held in the Parliamentary Chamber. The LGBTQ rights advocacy group Rightify Ghana commented: As the …

For many Ugandans, taxes rarely feel real when they are first announced in Parliament. They feel distant then. Technical. Wrapped in legal amendments and budget speeches. The impact usually becomes clearer later, at the fuel station when pump prices rise, at the market when sugar costs more than it did a month earlier, when transport fares quietly rise, or when …

When outgoing Works and Transport minister Gen Katumba Wamala launched the electric buses (E-Bus Xpress) on May 3 to ply the Ntinda-Nakawa-Wandegeya- Bukoto greenbelt route within the Kampala metropolitan area, one question dominated; why begin with only eight buses on a single route despite the anticipated demand? At the time, the 32-seater buses, each with an additional 32 standing handholds, …

In Buwama along the Kampala–Masaka highway, there is a school where children learn to read with their fingertips. At the Centre for the Visually Impaired Children, better known as CEVIC, more than 100 learners move through classrooms guided by touch, sound and memory. They read Braille line by line. They navigate corridors through instinct and repetition. And they pursue an …

The High Court has quashed the suspension of engineer Fredrick Mubiru, ruling that disciplinary proceedings against him violated his right to a fair hearing and could not stand in law. Mubiru had been suspended for one year by the Engineers’ Registration Board (ERB) over allegations of professional misconduct following a complaint filed by the National Building Review Board. The suspension …

Thousands of Ugandan learners preparing for national exams have been given more time to register. But alongside that extension has come a sharp warning from the Uganda National Examinations Board: schools found abusing the system could face serious penalties. Speaking at a press briefing at the Uganda Media Centre, UNEB Executive Director Daniel Odongo warned heads of government- aided schools …

Last week inside Uganda’s courtrooms, justice unfolded in dramatically different ways. In one courtroom, appellate judges confirmed a prison sentence for a man convicted of rape more than a decade ago, bringing a long and painful legal battle to a close for a young woman from Sironko. Across Kampala, prosecutors in the treason-related trial involving opposition figure Dr Kizza Besigye …

Irene Batebe, Uganda’s Permanent Secretary in the ministry of Energy and Mineral Development, has called on regional energy regulators in East Africa to expand their mandate to include mining, arguing that the sector is increasingly intertwined with energy development and regional industrialization ambitions. Speaking during the annual general meeting of the Energy Regulators Association of East Africa (EREA) held at …