Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Kampala Capital City Authority -City Hall Court has sent more than 100 Karamojong mothers back to Napak for rehabilitation and to serve a one-month community service sentence for sending their children to the streets to beg. On Thursday, the Grade One Magistrate Edgar …
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Gulu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | In response to the surge in street children within Gulu City, at least 50 parents, including single mothers, child mothers, the elderly, fathers, and local leaders have undergone positive parenting skills training. The move aims to address the issue of poor parenting and lack of …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Two street children were knocked dead at the Acacia-Kayunga road junction in Kampala. The vehicle, a black Mercedes-Benz with registration number UBL 189R, was being driven by Faziru Kimera a resident of Buwate, Kira Municipality, in Wakiso district. The incident, according to Deputy Kampala …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Kampala City Lord Mayor Erias Lukwago has asked the government to boost the fight against child trafficking. Speaking at the celebrations to mark the International Day of Street Children, Lukwago said that the children are not on the streets to beg but rather …
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Jinja, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Reformed youth leaders in Jinja city have asked the government to empower them so as to lead decent lives. The reformed youth leaders told Jinja city officers at Walukuba community grounds on Saturday that most of their members came to towns as street children, grew …
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SPECIAL FEATURE | Hafitha Issa & Christopher Kisekka- URN | When walking through the main intersections of Kampala central business district, you will always encounter children in tattered clothes begging for money from pedestrians and motorists. “Mpayo ekikumi”. This is loosely translated as ‘give me Shillings 100’ is a common …
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Kapchorwa, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Residents of Kapchorwa are asking municipal authorities to formulate an ordinance to regulate street children in the municipality. They say that the rapid growth in the number of street children is causing insecurity. The demand follows an incident where two street children from Kapchorwa were …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | City Hall Court has sentenced 25 women to seven weeks in jail for deploying children on different streets of Kampala to beg for money. The women many of whom appeared before the court with their children were arrested last month from different parts of the …
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Napak, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The government has reunited over 200 children who were recently rescued from streets of Kampala with their families in Napak district. A total of 260 children were rounded up in an operation mounted by Kampala Capital City Authority-KCCA, Ministry of Gender and police and taken …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Kampala Capital City Authority-KCCA has finalized the process to operationalize the Child protection Ordinance, 2022. KCCA drafted and approved the ordinance in May 2019, but it spent a considerable amount of time in the Attorney General’s Chambers for perusal to ensure it is in …
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