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THE Government has allocated food relief to the disadvantaged families and schools affected by drought. The disaster and relief state minister, Musa Ecweru, told authorities over the weekend that the intervention was ordered by President Yoweri Museveni.
THE speaker of Masaka municipal council, Denis Majwala, stunned the councillors when he declined a request from the family of the mayor, John Tebyasa Matovu, to take him to hospital.
SURVIVORS of leprosy in Gulu and Amuru districts have received 15 uniports. The survivors, most of whom lost their fingers and toes, are not able to work to earn a living.
THE Police on Monday impounded 42 jerrycans of the killer waragi in Olilim sub-county in Lira district.
Hundreds of Congolese women in Gulu district have asked the Government to repatriate them home.
Development partners have advised that the operationalisation of the Road Fund is delayed by another year until effective structures and accountability systems are in place.
He is like a signature in Masaka town and the whole district. However, for the last two years, he has been losing his grip on the mayoral seat. The municipality has been virtually stumbling since the once effective mayor, John Tebyasa Matovu, disappeared due to ill-health.
THE 14-year-old girl from Bushenyi who stoned to death a 40-year-old man whom she accused of trying to rape her yesterday failed to get released on Police bond because there was nobody to stand surety for her.
ACCORDING to newspaper reports of the proceedings of the recent meeting of the Buganda lukiiko (parliament) some members objected to the meeting between President Yoweri Museveni and Kabaka Ronald Muwenda Mutebi arguing that it was contrary to Buganda culture for the Kabaka to discusss political or constitutional issues.
A TEENAGER held in connection with Maj. Gen. James Kazini's murder last week is a state witness and under Police protection.
Farmers registered with the National Agricultural Advisory Services (NAADS) programme and entrepreneurs investing in the tractor service businesses will be facilitated to purchase tractors.
A SH50.9b agricultural project, which was supposed to change the livelihood of farmers in the West Nile region, has closed with little impact registered.
OVER 2,000 wheat and barley farmers in the Agoro hills in Kitgum district have said local traders offer low prices for their produce.
THE Gulu-Atiak road is to be upgraded to paved bitumen standard, Dan Alinange, the spokesman of the Uganda National Roads Authority, has said. Currently, the 74km-road located in Gulu and Amuru districts in northern Uganda, is a gravel road.
THE Public Procurement and Disposal of Public Assets Authority (PPDA) is to develop a new audit strategy, the public relations officer, Dorah Egunyu, has said She said the new system, once approved, would streamline follow-up mechanisms on audit reports issued to entities and address the implementation gap on audit recommendations made by PPDA.
THE Public Procurement and Disposal of Public Assets Authority (PPDA) has established an online data bank that will avail details of local and foreign firms doing or willing to do business with the Government.
A total of 516,890 pupils sat Primary Leaving Examinations (PLE) this year. This is the first time such a number has been recorded since Universal Primary Education was introduced 12 years ago.
I have read recent media praises for mobile money transfers and congratulate Safaricom, MTN and Zain for implementing the service in the East African region. Safaricom has taken it to a higher level by handling international money transfers.
THE Governor Bank of Uganda, Tumusiime Mutebile, has urged commercial banks to guard against fraud and forgeries by instituting effective risk management systems.
THE National Agricultural Advisory Services (NAADS) has been asked to design special programmes for people with physical and mental disabilities.
MPS on the public accounts committee yesterday warned that the Attorney General and the permanent secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs must answer for the loss of over $4.5m (sh8b) in advance payments to CHOGM hotels.
The Security Council today called on United Nations missions in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Central African Republic (CAR) and Sudan to coordinate strategies to protect civilians from the rebel Ugandan Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), which has killed, kidnapped and displaced thousands of people.
With northern Uganda at relative peace following years of war wreaked by Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army, LRA, activists are now worried about rising outbreaks of domestic violence.
Courts have trouble convicting corrupt bureaucrats because colleagues help destroy incriminating evidence in a "scratch my back, I will scratch yours" syndicate, a minister has said.
PARLIAMENT yesterday embarked on the long-awaited debate of the Land Amendment Bill with the House divided along party lines.
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