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Male chimp, soldiers' sack, Mwanawasa's death dominate Uganda media
A male Chimpanzee celebrating 44 years, the arrest of senior army officials suspected to have embezzled US$150,000 in salaries of over 2,500 foot soldiers and the death of Zambian leader Levy Mwanawasa are some of the highlights of the Ugandan media this week. |
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Uganda's efforts to fight on HIV/AIDS prevalence slacken
Efforts to contain the HIV/AIDS pandemic seem to be dampening as many countries that had emerged as success stories are recording increasing prevalence rate, Ugandan AIDS Commission officials said. |
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EAC members move to fast track regional integration
The second round of negotiations of the EAC Common Market Protocol opened in Nairobi on Monday amidst expressions of determination by all the parties to work towards the conclusion of the negotiations and reaching agreement on the Protocol by the set deadline of December 2008. |
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Uganda looses US$ 20m on fish annually, to overhaul sector
Uganda is loosing an average of US$ 20 million annually in the fishing earnings due to a catalogue of malpractices, a trend authorities said confirmed the collapse of a sector ranked second foreign exchange earner to the landlocked East African country. |
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Ugandan women want wife-beating husbands jailed
Debate on the Domestic Relations Bill (DRB) in Uganda continued to attract controversies from the public with latest being women in the country's western region calling for the imprisonment of men who batter their wives. |
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Double taxation for Ugandan tea exporters in Kenya
Uganda tea exporters pay double tax in Kenya, an act showing that the desired economic integration among East African Community (EAC) member states is failing hold, the landlocked country's tea association (UTEA) said. |
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EAC moves towards single currency union
The East African Community (EAC) is negotiating a protocol on custom union for the region to remove tariffs and taxes attracted by goods in the member states within the next five years, a Kenyan government official said here Tuesday. |
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Ugandan woman kills her 4 children
A woman killed her four children, including a set of tw ins, by strangling them inside her rented two-room apartment in Kamwokya, a Kamp a la suburb, before trying to kill herself. |
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Bad roads, high fuel prices raise inflation in EAC
A combination of poor roads to handle sufficient flow o f goods and ever rising fuel prices are key factors responsible for the rising i n flation rate in the East African Community, Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS) s a id in its monthly Consumer Price Index (CPI) report covering the month of July 2008. |
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Ugandan rebels allege plot to scuttle peace talks with govt
Uganda's Lords Resistance Army (LRA) Wednesday called fo r an African Union (AU) guarantee to support a peace accord it plans to sign wit h the Ugandan government to end its 22-year-long insurgency. |
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