Tag Archives: Agnes Kirabo

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Civil society activists have cautioned the government against directly instigating reforms on the mailo land tenure system as a solution to rampant evictions in the country. The proposal comes at the height of great suspicion by the Buganda Kingdom over a proposal by the central …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The government’s plan to distribute Covid-19 relief aid to Uganda has drawn criticism from different organizations. The government said it would use mobile money to get money to the vulnerable people who are affected by the lockdown to contain the second Covid-19 wave. Unlike last …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  Food and environment activists say you need to urgently find ways of avoiding food loss and waste or risk financial and environment losses.  The Minister of Agriculture, Vincent Sempijja and Food Agricultural Organization Country representative, Antonio Querido say it is high time that you rethink …

Kampala,  Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | The government has been tasked to advise Ugandans on the most appropriate foods they should take to keep coronavirus diseases like COVID-19 at bay.  David Kabanda, a lawyer working with the Center for Food and Adequate Living Rights, says that while it’s scientifically proven that …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | More children under the age of five are likely to suffer from wasting and become dangerously undernourished. Wasting is a life-threatening form of malnutrition which makes children too thin and weak and puts them at greater risk of dying poor due to growth, development, …