Uganda news

The Deputy Speaker of Parliament Anita Among is in Spain’s capital Madrid to attend the 142nd Inter-Parliamentary Union conference. IPU is a global organization of national parliaments. Among held a bilateral meeting with the president and executive committee of the IPU on the sidelines of the conference. The meeting aimed at establishing the role the Ugandan Parliament can play in ...

Experts have warned the public about cutting down trees in the country. Under the body , Civil Society Organisations (CSOs), experts said by 2050 if there is no significant intervention, the country will not have a single forest in a few decades. In 2014 ministry of Energy and Mineral Development released a report on energy consumption in the country. Apparently, ...

An NGO, Migrant Workers Voice that assists migrant workers including whose rights have been violated at work sent a petition to the government of Uganda. The petition intends to put pressure on the Ugandan government to have them exhume the remains of a migrant worker who died and was buried illegally in Saudi Arabia. Shadia Najjuko, 31, died in June ...

The leader Of Opposition in Parliament, Mathias Mpuuga has expressed concern over shrinking civic space. Mathias Mpuuga emphasized the need to amend the Electoral Commissions Act to redefine the role of both police and army in an election. Mpuuga made comments about Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) in a democratic government. According to him, CSOs are a channel through which citizens ...

Police in Kawempe Division, Kampala have arrested a woman and launched a search for her son. This is in connection with the brutal killing of the woman’s husband during a domestic fight. The deputy Police spokesperson, Luke Owoyesigire said the killing of Muhammed Nsubuga has been treated as a murder case. He said they recorded it as SD 40/23/11/202 Kawanda ...