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U.S. Salutes Country On Rebel Commander Capture [New Vision] The United States has commended the Uganda People's Defense Forces (UPDF) for the capture of Maj. Gen. Ceasar Acellam , a top commander of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebels. |
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Give and Take Needed to Solve EALA Dispute [Observer] Uganda's major political parties have so far failed to agree on representation in the East African Legislative Assembly (EALA) despite several rounds of meetings. |
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Health Communication Partnership Project Launches Web-Based Health Resources [Independent] At the closure of the Health Communication Partnership (HCP) a USAID funded project at Golf Course Kampala that has been in operation of five years, HCP launched a set of web based health resources which are hosted on the knowledge 4 health website (http://www.k4health.org.hcp) |
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MPs Reject New Varsities' Law [New Vision] Parliament has rejected a proposed new legislation for the appointment of heads of public universities calling it a myopic, one-off ritualistic event and attempt to solve a problem akin to Makerere University while leaving out pertinent issues afflicting higher education. |
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Govt Probes Stalled Sh300 Billion Beef Processing Plant [New Vision] Government has instituted a National Environmental Management Authority (NEMA) team to investigate circumstances under which a $122m (Shs300b) beef processing plant has been frustrated by pastoralists, New Vision online has learnt. |
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Budget Will Focus On Value for Money [New Vision] The 2012/13 national budget will focus on an output-oriented budgeting as a mechanism to transform the budget process from a 'spending orientation' to a 'result focus'. |
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MPs Write to Museveni, Resign in 60 Days [New Vision] MEMBERS of Parliament have written to President Yoweri Museveni asking him to consider resigning from office within 60 days to avoid being impeached. |
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Country Gets $1.6 Billion From Global Fund [New Vision] The global fight against Aids, Tuberculosis (TB) and malaria has received a major boost of $1.6b in investment funds to projects aimed at saving lives for the period 2012 -14. |
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KCCA Lawyers Challenge High Court Suit By Ex-Employees [New Vision] Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) lawyers are challenging the High Court suit filed against the Authority by its ex-employees, arguing that the court does not have the jurisdictions. |
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Govt Targets One Million Jobs [Observer] Mbale - The Government in partnership with the Private Sector Foundation Uganda is targeting to create a million jobs by 2015 in an attempt to reduce the levels of unemployment in the country, the state minister for investment has said. |
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The Telecom Wars Have Begun [Independent] May 7 was the day a new mobile communications battle began in Rwanda as Airtel launched its new promotion dubbed "Yagaruze," meaning "You Pay - Airtel Pays". The concept is as simple as it is attractive: charge your phone with Airtel airtime, spend it and receive the same amount of spending back from Airtel. The promotion is going on for the next month. |
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Health Ministry Replaces Suspended Bosses [New Vision] Four people have been appointed in acting capacity replacing top programme managers suspended last month. |
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Uwocaso Launches Study On Perceptions On Cancer [Independent] On May 17, Uganda Women's Cancer Support Organisation (UWOCASO) launched a study on the perceptions of cancer at a cancer disseminations workshop in Mulago Hospital Kampala. The study was conducted in the districts of Wakiso and Kampala. |
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200,000 May Out of USE [New Vision] Owners of private secondary schools have moved to start charging sh50,000 per student under the Universal Secondary Education (USE) scheme. |
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Nodding Disease Calls for Collective Action [New Vision] When President Museveni visited the Atanga Health Centre IV in Pader district where the health ministry had opened one of the emergency response centres to handle victims of the nodding disease, he spoke to the medical personnel on the scope of the response. |
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Kiboga Police Nets 14 for Attacking LC1 Boss [New Vision] Fourteen people were arrested and charged with malicious damage at Mityana Magistrates' Court on Wednesday. The suspects were all residents of Nakabazi village in Ssekanyonyi sub-county, Mityana district. |
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Govt Sends Peace Team to Sudan [New Vision] Parliament will send a delegation to Khartoum and to Juba in a bid to find a solution to the tension between the two neighbours. |
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Omony or Onyango - Who to Start? [New Vision] When Cranes regroup for their opening 2014 World Cup qualifier against Angola early next week, goalkeeping coach Fred Kajoba will have a major brainteaser to resolve. |
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Govt Moves to Reduce LC Elections Costs [New Vision] The Government is intending to table amendments to the laws governing Local Council (LC) elections in an attempt to scale down the cost of conducting the elections. The proposed amendments will be tabled in Parliament before the end of the year. |
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Quality Chemicals Giving Locals Fighting Chance [New Vision] The Quality Chemical Industries home in Luzira is a glassy modern piece of architecture with an exterior that would pass for a grand hotel instead of a pharmaceutical plant. |
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Owning a Mobile Phone Does Not Move You to the Middle Class [New Vision] James Ogule, who lives in Namugongo, a Kampala surburb, thinks the vendors selling matooke (plantains) by the road to his house should not be considered middle class. |
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400 Children Die in Road Accidents [New Vision] At least 400 children, mostly pedestrians, die in road accidents in Uganda every year, a Ministry of Works and Transport report published last year states. |
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Floods Ravage Rakai [Observer] Josephat Faustin is part of a group of Rwandan herdsmen that had settled at Ttome in Kakuuto sub-county. |
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460 Circumcised in Red Cross Week [Observer] The Uganda Red Cross Society (URCS), on May 8, marked the World Red Cross and Red Crescent Day in memory of the organisation's founder, Henry Dunant. |
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Gen Otafiire Threatens to Walk to Work [Observer] The minister for Justice and Constitutional Affairs, Major General Kahinda Otafiire, today said he could walk to work to protest the thin budget on which his ministry is running. |
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UN Urges Govt On Food Security [Observer] With one out of ten Ugandans surviving on one meal a day and 33 percent of children under five malnourished, Uganda is in danger of becoming a shadow of the country that was once regarded as a fat breadbasket of sub-Saharan Africa. |
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Mbarara Widow, 85, in Land Row With Daughters [Observer] It is somewhat disturbing seeing an elderly woman, fit to be your grandmother, break down and cry like a toddler. |
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How Oil Revenues Will Be Managed [Observer] Members of the Parliamentary Forum on Oil (PFO) have raised objections to aspects a bill that vests what they believe to be excessive powers in the minister of Finance to manage and oversee the Petroleum Fund. |
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Home-Based Saliva HIV Test Kit Coming [Observer] The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of the United States yesterday approved the worldwide use of a saliva test kit for HIV detection, just days after a panel recommended the use of Truvada in HIV prevention to the same body. |
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Defence Seeks Shs 132 Billion Supplementary Budget [Observer] The Defence ministry is seeking an astronomical Shs 132bn supplementary budget, less than two months before the 2011/2012 financial year comes to an end. |
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