Ahmed Kateregga
11 November 2008
Kampala — The Libyan-based World Islamic Call Society is to open a university in Uganda by the end of this year. The society's secretary-general, Dr. Muhammad Shariff, said the university, which started in Tripoli, Libya in 1975 had opened up branches in Chad, Syria and England.
The Mufti of Uganda, Sheikh Shaban Mubajje, said the university would initially operate from the training centre at the Old Kampala Mosque, before relocating to a permanent place.
"The National Council for Higher Education has permitted us to operate from Old Kampala for two years because there is not enough space," Mubajje said.
The pronouncement came during the society's eighth general conference in Tripoli, recently.
Speaking at the same conference, the state minister for gender and cultural affairs, Lukia Nakadama, urged the society to invest in Uganda to create jobs for its graduates.
The Uganda delegation included Sheikh Hussein Rajab Kakooza, the director of Shariah; Sheikh Abdul Kamulegeya, the president-general of the African Muslim Community and Hajji Moses Sebunnya, Uganda's ambassador to Libya.
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