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By Mary Asujo The Slum Aid Project which supports slum women to prevent domestic violence has called on government to work out a funding programme to have medical police surgeons...

By Mary Asujo Members of Parliament have called on government to reign over the increasing deforestation across the country, following reports of rampant tree cutting for charcoal burning and timber....

The government of Uganda has reiterated the call on citizens to embrace the available vaccine in order to salvage the successes so far registered in the fight against COVID-19. Through...

President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has said he and his family are yet to get vaccinated against the coronavirus because they are still undecided on which COVID-19 vaccines to use. Museveni...

The judiciary has issued strict directives to all courts in the country to kick out advocates who appear in courts without valid practicing certificates. In a short but authoritative letter...

By Sarah Kibisi A civil rights organization, Citizens’ Coalition for Electoral Democracy in Uganda (CCEDU), has this afternoon called for the unconditional release of political abductees and account for each...

Burundi’s President Evariste Ndayishimiye has granted amnesty to 5,255 prisoners as part of efforts to congest prisons in the East African country. Those sentenced to less than or equal to...

By Mary Asujo The Speaker of parliament, Rebecca Kadaga on Tuesday, directed that government comes to parliament and brief the country on what action is being taken on matters concerning...

Women rights lobby groups are pushing for enactment of a legislation that allows widows to inherit half or most of their deceased husband’s property. UWOPA (a group majorly comprised of...

President Yoweri Museveni has linked the recent wave of "disappearances" of people in Uganda to a wave of criminality that swept the country a few years ago characterized by assassination's,...