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MPs call for mainstreaming malaria as a cross cutting issue

Parliamentary Forum on Malaria wants government to dedicate Shillings 250 billion to fighting malaria for a period of five years Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Parliamentary Forum on Malaria is calling for the mainstreaming of the fight against malaria as a means to kick the disease completely out of the …

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JEEMA pulls out of IPOD summit

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Justice Forum Party-JEEMA has pulled out of the 3rd Inter-Party Organization for Dialogue-IPOD Summit. The summit will be held on Friday at Kololo Independence grounds.  In a letter addressed to the Executive Secretary of IPOD, the party’s President Asuman said that they didn’t have …

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Youths seek more representatives in Parliament

Kampala,  Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | Youth leaders want the number of their representatives in parliament increased to eight, a move they say will strengthen and empower youth political participation across the country. The youth are currently represented by five legislators, four drawn from each of the four regions and one …

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Opposition groups challenge new EC roadmap

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  The Justice Forum-JEEMA has described the reviewed Electoral Commission roadmap as unconstitutional. Asuman Basaalirwa, the Justice Forum President says that the Constitution does not provide for the guidelines issued by the commission in preparation for the 2021 polls.   The new roadmap which was released on …

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JEEMA punches holes in Museveni COVID-19 guidelines

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  Justice Forum Party- JEEMA has punched holes in the preventive guidelines issued by government on the Corona Virus- COVID 19 pandemic. In his nationwide address on the COVID 19 pandemic on Wednesday evening, President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni ordered the closure of all academic institutions by …

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