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CHOLERA has broken out in Kasese district with two cases reported in Hamukungu fishing village in Lake Katwe sub-county on Tuesday.
UGANDA is among the nine developing countries in Africa and Asia that will benefit from a $12m (over sh21b) family planning and women's reproductive health project.
PUBLIC sector corruption in Uganda continues to worsen according to Transparency International. Corruption is now seen by Ugandans to be more rampant than it was in any of the past five years.
THE shortage of contraceptives essential to family planning is responsible for their poor use, a senior official in the health ministry has said.
THE public accounts committee was yesterday thrown into confusion over whether or not the contract for the supply of executive cars for CHOGM had been awarded to Spear Motors, which has taken the Government to court.
PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni has said the immigrant herdsmen in Bulisa district in Bunyoro sub-region have agreed to be relocated.
MPs on Wednesday clashed over the location of the district headquarters for Marach-Terego that was carved out of Arua in 2005.
THE Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS) has unveiled the logo for the 2012 population and housing census. The deputy executive director, Paul Mungyereza, explained that the logo sums up all the activities they will carry out in the census.
RESIDENTS of Kawaala-Kasubi, in Rubaga Division have a reason to smile after a new health centre was opened there on Wednesday.
THE Secretary General of the NRM party, Amama Mbabazi, has warned warring Nakaseke district leaders to stop fighting because 'they are undermining the party's popularity in the area'.
THE Chairperson of the Buganda caucus, Rosemary Namayanja, defended Buganda MPs' absence during the Thursday Parliamentary debate on the Land Bill arguing that the majority were in Arusha for the 10 years' celebrations of the East African Community.
THE MTN Marathon organising committee maintains that Sunday's athletics competition will be scandal-free.
EXPRESS FC return for their domestic league assignment against Firemasters with clear intentions of assuming new status as table leaders. The Red Eagles' ambitions though could suffer a set-back against the unpredictable league debutants if their treasured attack fire blanks as was the case in their previous outing against Hoima.
Bitter fighting between the forces who were recently fighting in Jubba regions has restarted in out of the Kismayu town in Lower Jubba region in southern Somalia, witnesses said on Saturday.
The East African Community entered a new era on Friday when leaders of the five member states ushered in a Common Market and Customs Union.
It is encouraging that the proposed new constitution is being subjected to such vigorous dissection.
Sitting opposite a group of men at a popular eatery, I eavesdropped on their conversation on how a good wife should make it her business to cook for her husband and not leave the responsibility to the house-help.
An impending erosion of Treasury's powers over economic policy could render future governments incapable of delivering on development pledges.
Deputy Prime Minister Musalia Mudavadi has asked politicians to listen to the views of Kenyans on the draft instead of engaging in partisan debates that would derail a new constitution.
The Eastern African Standby Brigade (EASBRIG) military exercises earlier scheduled for between November 16 and 29 in Djibouti, have been postponed, The New Times has learnt.
President Paul Kagame yesterday handed over the chairmanship of the East Africa Community (EAC) to his Tanzanian counterpart, Jakaya Kikwete, and described the regional bloc as "much stronger, larger and more united."
Thousands of Ugandans and Kenyans are working in Iraq and Afghanistan as contractors for US-based security companies.
The drought spell that has hit most parts of Arusha and Manyara regions for about two consecutive years is tearing apart the Maasai social fabric and driving youths in large numbers to seek employment or beg for food in urban areas.
The Islamist fighters of Jubba regions under the management of Harakat Al-shabab Mujahideen have taken over the control of Af-madow town in Lower Jubba region in southern Somalia, just as there is no fighting continuing there in southern Somalia, officials told Shabelle radio on Sunday.
The president of Ibuka, an umbrella body of Genocide survivors' associations, has threatened to cease cooperation with the Arusha-based International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) for what the group described as "unfair judgment" in two cases where top Genocide suspects were acquitted.
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