Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The recently inaugurated Labor Advisory Board (LAB) has been tasked with prioritizing the broadening of decent labor regulations in the informal sector. The informal sector employs up to 80 percent of Uganda’s workforce and contributes over 50 percent of the country’s economy (ILO 2021). …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The government has approved the Uganda Police Force’s forensic laboratory for Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA) testing, making it the third lab in the country to be authorized to conduct such examinations. This development comes amid a surge in demand for paternity testing, with men seeking …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Uganda National Bureau of Standards (UNBS) plans to build a Shs 22bn modern food testing laboratory in in Bweyogerere, a Kampala suburb, to check distribution and sale of harmful foodstuffs in the country as well standardise Ugandan food exports. “We expect to start construction …
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