The US State Department on Thursday published a new rule aimed at denying tourist visas to pregnant foreign women if consular officials believe the primary purpose of their visit is to give birth in the United States. The Donald Trump administration said it is seeking to end “birth tourism”, which is the practice of pregnant foreign women visiting the US ...

Striking junior doctors at Zimbabwe’s state hospitals will end a four-month strike after accepting an offer from a telecoms billionaire, Strive Masiyiwa to pay them a monthly allowance of about $300 for six months, their union said on Thursday. The doctors went on strike on September 3 to protest against poor wages and a lack of adequate equipment and medicines, ...

Engineering solution limited Uganda’s most reliable agriculture equipment supplier has demanded that government waves off tax levied on tractor components such as trailers to boost commercial agriculture and food production. Engineering Solutions (U) Ltd (ENGSOL) is Uganda’s exclusive distributor of TAFE tractors and a dealer of Massey Ferguson tractors and equipment. ENGSOL complements these world class tractors with implements from ...

In a bid to address road accidents caused by bodaboda riders, Makerere University College of Education and external studies is set to unveil new curriculum for bodaboda riders in June. the university is partnering with national curriculum development centre to develop the curriculum with work with Kampala City Council Authority and ministry of gender to implement and enforce its guidelines. ...

In a bid to foster future development cooperation with Uganda, Japan International Development Cooperation Agency (JICA) will mark 30 years anniversary on 25th January. This will be accompanied by the official launch of Uganda –Japan ex-participants alumin association that has over 1,962 members who studied and benefited from Japanese scholarship since 1968 when they started supporting Nakawa Vocational Institute to ...