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The U.S. Mission to Uganda has awarded a new $64.8 million project that seeks to provide better health services to 23 districts in Eastern Uganda and Karamoja. U.S. Ambassador to Uganda Deborah R. Malac says in a press statement that this five-year initiative, called the Regional Health Integration to Enhance […]

By Ritah Kemigisa The opposition Democratic Party has said it is to petition the speaker of Parliament Rebecca Kadaga to pass a resolution to have a commission of inquiry instituted to investigate the state of different military bases and detention centers in the country including Nalufenya prison, chieftaincy of Military […]

The speaker of parliament Rebecca Kadaga says that it is high time the government started footing the bills of the girls who want to go abroad for domestic work and take full responsibility of monitoring their well-being. This, the speaker said would help curb the rising cases of human trafficking. […]

By Ruth Anderah Katakwi district woman MP Violet Akurut has retained her seat after the Court of Appeal overturned the Soroti High court decision which had nullified her election on grounds that she never resigned her public service position as a commissioner with the Uganda Human Rights Commission. Three Court […]