Tag Archives: lockdown

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Members of Parliament have asked government to intervene in the skyrocketing fuel prices, saying businesses are starting to crumble due to the high transport costs. The MPs who addressed journalists on Monday in the Members’ Lounge at Parliament say that whereas fuel prices have been …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The COVID-19 induced lockdown has become a turning point for Madrine Namulema, a former market vendor who has since rediscovered her potential for making reasonable earnings from hard labour. Namulema, a mother of four, has found a fortune in making clay bricks as an alternative …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Cabinet is proposing free and compulsory primary and secondary education when schools reopen early next year. The cabinet on Monday agreed that all forms of charges that have been collected from learners in Universal Primary Education-UPE and Universal Secondary Education-USE schools should be abolished. Dr. …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Minister of State for Planning, Amos Lugoloobi has told MPs that the government has no money to support a special recovery fund for the education sector. Lugoloobi instead appealed to private institutions of learning to compete for 200 billion Shillings that has been set aside …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | MPs on the Committee on Budget are scrutinising a Shs3.8 trillion supplementary budget with Shs1.3 trillion already spent as being within the limit allowed by the Public Finance Management Act. Section 25(1) of the Public Finance Management Act allows accounting officers, subject to the approval of …

Kasese, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | There is an improved uptake of family planning services in Kasese district following the easing of the nationwide lockdown. At the end of July this year, President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni eased the second nationwide lockdown he announced on June 18th, 2021, to contain the second wave …

Kabale, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Probation officers in Kigezi are asking for increased funding to enable them to increase their efforts in curbing the surging teenage pregnancies in the region. According to records from the probation office, more than 7,000 underage girls have been impregnated in the six districts of the …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The leadership of the National Fellowship of Born-Again Pentecostal Churches of Uganda-NFBPC has resolved to start psychosocial support programs in their places of worship following the partial reopening from the second lockdown. During their retreat in Masaka city, the fourteen regional overseers of Pentecostal Churches in …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Sixteen-year-old Ritah (not real names) is currently a resident at Wakisa Ministries, an abuse and pregnancy crisis centre in Wakiso district. A herdsman lured the teenager into sex last year after introducing her to pornography. She explains that she would watch pornography with the herdsman whenever …

Arua, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Lugbara cultural institution has raised concern about the high numbers of cases of incest registered during the lockdown. The cultural institution has registered 600 cases of teenage pregnancies in Arua, Terego, Maracha, Madi-Okollo and Yumbe since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. Ismael Tuku, the …