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OPINION By Gilbert Akampa Kakurugu,  As Uganda’s third school term unfolds, classrooms across the country remain eerily quiet not because of holiday breaks, but because hundreds of Arts and Humanities teachers have downed their tools in protest. Their strike, now entering its fifth day, is a direct response to the government’s failure to honor her pledge made three years ago: …

NATIONAL The Equal Opportunities Commission (EOC) has come under scrutiny over its silence on the continued salary disparities in the public service. The criticisms follow an ongoing nationwide strike by arts teachers in government-aided schools who on Monday laid down their tools after government failed to honour an earlier commitment to raise their salaries of arts teachers in line with …