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Retired Archbishop Livingstone Mpalanyi-Nkoyoyo has Died The Most Rev. Livingstone Mpalanyi-Nkoyoyo, retired Archbishop of the Church of Uganda, died on 5th January 2018 at the age of 80 from pneumonia. In early 2017 he underwent successful treatment for cancer in the UK. Funeral and burial arrangements are still pending. Archbishop Stanley Ntagali said, “I thank God for the life of Archbishop Nkoyoyo. He was a passionate evangelist and a visionary leader. He was a man full of hope for the Lord’s work and he never gave up. He has now been promoted to glory. Well done, good and…
By URN. Makerere University is to award veteran South African anti-apartheid campaigner, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, an Honorary Doctor of Laws during the 68th graduation ceremony later this month. The 81-year-old veteran politician and ex-wife to former President Nelson Mandela is being recognized for her contribution towards the fight and eventual elimination of apartheid in South Africa. Both the University Council and Senate, the top-most academic and administrative organs of the university, have approved the award. Makerere will hold its 68th graduation ceremony from Tuesday 16th to Friday 19th January 2018, the university authorities have confirmed. A total of 15,172 students are…
Source NRM . President Yoweri Museveni has spent this afternoon visiting and consoling with families of murder victims in Bukomansibi district. The President later addressed a public rally at Kyamabale Primary school grounds in Kibinge sub-county and said that government will overcome the wave of crime that characterised 2017 that cost the country many lives. Criminals armed with sticks and machetes on new year’s eve attacked Kabukolwa village in Kingo sub-county Lwengo district killing 23 year old Haman Kayemba Gonzaga, they later attacked Kyamabale village in Kibinge sub-county in Bukomansimbi district and murdered 65 years old retired Senior Sepretendant…
By URN. A group of protesters claiming to be National Resistance Movement (NRM) supporters today stormed Civil Division of the High Court in Kampala protesting litigations against Speaker Parliament Rebecca Kadaga. The group claims Kadaga is being targeted for presiding over proceedings that led to passing of the Constitution Amendment Bill Number 2 of 2017, popularly known as the age limit bill. The protesters today carried placards reading “Leave Kadaga Alone, Kadaga Oyeee, Kagada mumuleke”, arguing that the age limit bill was passed in the right manner and that Kadaga has no case to answer. They are saying the case…
North Korea calls hotline to South Korea in major diplomatic move By Taehoon Lee and Hilary Whiteman, CNN Updated Jan 3, 2018 Seoul (CNN) – North Korea called South Korea on a hotline that’s been dormant for almost two years Wednesday, a major diplomatic breakthrough following a year of escalating hostility that could pave the way for future talks. The country’s leader Kim Jong Un gave the order to open the line at 3.00 p.m local time (1:30 a.m. ET) to begin discussions on sending a North Korean delegation to the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, next month. According…
By our reporter. Health advocates in the country are urging parliament to pass the patients’ rights and responsible Bill 2015 into law to enhance the relationship of a health provider and patients. According to Dina Apiyo from action group for health and human rights (AGHA) one of the problems that is failing health system is the way health service providers and patients intract with each other The group argues that, Uganda does not have a distinct piece of legislation governing patients’ rights and obligations. Currently the patients’ rights are provided for in the patients chatter under the ministry of health…
By URN. The Makerere University Visitation Committee has called for establishment of task-force that will oversee the implementation of a cocktail of its recommendations. The Makerere University Independent Transformation Task Force (MUTTF), the visitation committee recommends, should be set up by government for a period of three to five years. The necessity of the implementation task force is informed by management deficiencies that have bedevilled Makerere for years. The task force, according to the visitation committee report, should “develop a twenty (20) years’ comprehensive Operational Viability Analysis (OVA) detailing strategic goals, strategy, governance and management structures, legal framework, required resources,…
By Agencies. President Yoweri Museveni has at last appended his signature to the Constitutional Amendment Bill No. 2 of the 2017, commonly known as the Age Limit bill. Don Wanyama, Senior Presidential Press Secretary says the President wrote to the Speaker of Parliament through the Clerk. “We have not yet received official communication as the communications department, but he has assented to the bill,” Wanyama told URN. Parliament’s Director of Communication Chris Obore says the president signed the bill on December 27, just seven days after it was passed by the 10th Parliament on the night of December 20. The…
One hundred couples are to be wedded during a mass wedding that will take place in Koboko district on January 28. One of the organizers of the function who is also Koboko north mp Elias Asiku says that the country wide project that is sponsored by St. Peter clever community Mulago in conjunction with St. Peter Clever Lima in Koboko is intended to strengthen marriages. Elias Asiku says that there are hundreds of couples who are cohabiting and the mass wedding project is meant to help them to marry officially and as such this will strengthen their families. Asiku further…
Source UN. 1 January 2018 – United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has called on the Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to exercise restraint amid reports of a violent crackdown by national security forces on demonstrations in the capital, Kinshasa, and a number of other cities. In a statement issued late Sunday by his spokesperson, Mr. Guterres expressed concern about reports of the violent dispersion of protests by national security forces, resulting in the death of at least five people, the wounding of several others and the arrest of over 120 persons. “The Secretary-General calls on the Government and national security…
By our reporter. Youth members of Parliament MPs, plan to table the Labour export fund Bill on the floor of Parliament next year, to push the government to pay for the youth seeking jobs abroad, through a partnership of labor export companies and the government. This was disclosed by a youth member of Parliament for the Western region, Mwine Mpaka during the launch of the Uganda Parliamentary Forum on youth affairs strategic plan for 2018-2022 at Parliament. Mpaka said that once Bill becomes a law, it will push both government and the labor companies to pay for youth going for…
The Directorate of Medical and Health Services in Uganda Police Force, is working on a medical insurance policy for police personnel. According to the inspector General of police Gen Kale Kayihura, the team that is led by Dr. Moses Byaruhanga, Director Medical and Health Services in Uganda police is expected to table the proposal before the Police Council in January next year for discussion. “I have tasked the medical team to come up with a proposal for medical insurance so the officers can get medical care from the best facilities with the best equipments,” the Inspector General of Police,…
By. Damba Rogers The families of the illegally detained Rwandese nationals are calling the Uganda govt to respect the international human rights laws and release the illegally detained family members. According to Nisiima Claudeth a wife to Herbert Munyangaju a citizen of Rwanda who was arrested on 20th December 2017 by armed men from a bar along Nyanama road a Kampala suburb reveals that his arrest turned out to be among the several arrests on 19th December 2017 carried out in Mbarara that saw other six Rwandese including, Mr. Turatsinze Freddy, Ms. Muhongerwa Jessica, Ms. Gasaro Vanessa, Ms. Kamikazi…
M7 Consolidating Liberating Efforts Peace through out the whole of Uganda for the first time in 500 years. Before colonialism, there were tribal wars. During Colonialism, Karamoja was never pacified. After independence, the situation got worse with the Rwenzururu war in the Rwenzori, the conflict of 1966, Amin’s coup and the massacres that followed, the 1979 war, the 1981-86 war, the Lakwena – Kony-ADF-UPA wars, the cattle rustling by the Karimojong etc. It is the first time, therefore, that in 500 years, Uganda is at peace from corner to corner. This is a great and unique achievement by the NRM…
The state minister for housing also kinkizi east mp Chris Balyomunsi says that there is no court which can nullify the age limit amendment bill which parliament passed on Wednesday night because, the process was legal. Balyomunsi’s remarks follow the threats by the opposition leader in parliament Winnie kizza that the whole process will be challenged in court because it was fraudulent. On the extension of tenure of members of Parliament from 5 – 7 years , the Minister defended it, saying its not for selfish intrests as being claimed by political actors. “there is nothing like selfishness ,”we are just…