Month: October 2021

By Tobbias Jolly Owiny More by this Author   Refugee parents and caregivers are trading young girls for sex in exchange for food, money and other life necessities as the Covid-19 lockdown bites harder, a new report by FAWE-Uganda has revealed. The report also states that school-going refugee girls are […]

By Ritah Kemigisa The Ministry of Health has resolved to send covid19 test results online to people’s phones through Email or WhatsApp to avoid congestion at the Entebbe International Airport. This comes after yesterday’s condemnation of the delays at the Airport as hundreds of passengers were held for several hours […]

By Benjamin Jumbe President Museveni has given assurance that schools and the economy will be fully opened in January next year. Addressing the nation last evening, the president said by the of Dec 2021, more than 12M Ugandans will have been vaccinated out of the targeted 21 M making it […]

BY DAMALI MUKHAYE The Proposal to have teachers in the private schools earn a uniform salary like that of their counterparts in Government schools is in the offing. Sources in the Ministry of Education said that the proposal has been undergoing various internal meetings, pending approval by top managers and […]

By Catherine Ageno UNICEF Africa ambassadors are calling on G20 members to deliver more Covid-19 vaccine doses to African countries before December 2021, along with necessary resources to turn the vaccine into vaccination. Speaking ahead of this weekend’s G20 leaders’ summit, the nearly 50 ambassadors have noted with concern that […]