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By Joi Sears On Sept. 25, more than 150 world leaders convened at the United Nations headquarters in New York City to formally adopt an ambitious new sustainable development agenda. The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are intended to end extreme poverty, fight inequality and reverse climate change. Much like …

By Patrick Kagenda What happened to Musisi’s modern trains? July 2015 marked exactly one year since Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) and the Rift Valley Railways (RVR) started evicting encroachers on the railway reserves. The operation left a number of people dead and thousands counting loses. Bulldozers razed homes, business …

By Agather Atuhaire Just six years ago, Henry Peter Mayega was a member of the opposition Uganda Peoples Congress (UPC) party. Then he switched sides to the ruling NRM party. Today he is Uganda’s ambassador designate to the Peoples republic of China. At any time these days, Mayega is all …

By Agencies Global health experts have found that processed meat such as hot dogs, ham and sausages can cause bowel cancer Red meat is also “probably” carcinogenic, with associations mainly with bowel cancer, but also with pancreatic cancer and prostate cancer, according to a World Health Organisation (WHO) report. The …

By Flavia Nassaka The Ministry of Health together with development partners have earmarked Shs33.9 billion to finance a three day mass immunization exercise due to start on Oct 03. The Acting Manager of Uganda National Expanded Programme for  Immunization (UNEPI), Dr. Henry Luzze said in the three day countrywide exercise, …

The German development agency, GIZ, together with Uganda’s Ministry of Water and Environment will within a year establish a hydrological yearbook for the country. The yearbook will essentially have a compilation of data on Uganda’s water resources such as the quantity of water available in Uganda’s water bodies; river discharges …

By. Andrew M. Mwenda Stealing public funds. About 80,000 children die of preventable diseases each year in Uganda because public officials have stolen money for immunization Kampala. Two weeks ago, I said on the NTV News Night show that the existence of corruption in a country does not automatically impede …

The Economics Crimes Division of Uganda Police has frozen FUFA accounts over allegations of corruption. Besides Government support, it is believed FUFA received UGX 3.4 bn (US$1,050,000) from ‪FIFA and the money cannot be accounted for. Speaking about the freezing of accounts, Director of Interpol Uganda, Assan Kasingye said; “The …

By Phillip Karugaba Micro loans provide the first step to emergence of vibrant SMEs The impact of microcredit in reducing poverty has been debated for over 40 years with the article, ‘Microfinance: Good for the poor?’ that appeared in the Independent (Aug 28 – Sept 03 2015) being another voice. …

By Isaac K. Ssemakadde Human rights of political activists need more protection during this election season As we approach the 2016 general elections, a disturbing, constant pattern has emerged in Uganda according to recent reports of the press and human rights defenders. The NRM government led by President Yoweri Museveni is …