Examination bodies in Kenya and Uganda have written the Joint Admission Matriculation Board (JAMB) to verify records presented by Nigerian…
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Despite a robust constitutional, policy, legal, and regulatory framework, Ugandan institutions have failed to protect fragile environments adequately.
Namibia said Friday it had declined a visa extension to a Ugandan king visiting for medical treatment after rumours he…
Uganda’s Ministry of Health said Friday that international donors have significantly cut funding for malaria projects in the country over global crises, including conflicts and climate change.
Kainerugaba, 48, a general in the military, is widely seen as his father’s successor in waiting and once stirred controversy by threatening to invade neighboring Kenya.
The directorate of technical aid corps (DTAC) says Nigeria possesses a population of skilled youths capable of providing technical assistance to African, Caribbean, and Pacific (ACP) countries.
Uganda has established a modern bone marrow transplant (BMT) facility, that will help reduce numbers of patients seeking transplants abroad where they part with between US$40,000 to $50,000 [about Ug. Shillings 150m-200m] to treat one patient (medical procedure and accommodation during recovery) for at least one month in India, alone. The Ugandan facility, the first-of-the-kind in the nation, has been set up by the State-run Joint Clinical Research Centre (JCRC) at Lubowa, south of Kampala.
Uganda’s lost glory as one of Africa’s top producers of the ’white-gold’ (cotton) in the 1950s-70s, is slowly being regained with farmers already reaping over 2,000 metric tons, hardly a year after engaging in the revival. The country’s central region is leading the revival, [which ironically wasn’t growing much cotton then]. Uganda has two cotton planting seasons in a year.
An agricultural expert in Uganda, stunned a farmers’ conference in the capital Kampala recently, when he revealed that nowadays most homesteads have no fires nor smokes during the day, because people are not cooking due to acute food shortages.
The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group, has approved a project to provide 60,000 metric tons of fertilizer to 400,000 smallholder farmers in Uganda.