Kampala Capital City Authority plans to light up the city’s largest market of Owino. Through the United Nations Development Program, KCCA will roll out the project meant to improve the security of persons and property. The Executive Director of Kampala Capital City Authority Dorothy Kisaka says the UNDP funding will help them improve the market….
Police in jinja is firing teargas live bullets in some parts of Jinja City to disperse people who are protesting high fuel and commodity prices. Local leaders have condemned the protests and blamed an invisible hand for fueling young people. National planning authority ED Joseph Muvawala has called on police to rush and secure the…
As #Sml News reported last week of a pending RCC/RDCs reshuffle, performance pressure has grown among them. The recently appointed Resident District/City Commissioners (RDCs/RCCs) and their deputies have departed for their induction retreat at the National Leadership Institute in Kyankwanzi. The retreat will last one week, and the commissioners have already turned over their offices to…
During the 22nd Ordinary Summit of EAC Heads of State held in Arusha on Friday, July 22, 2022, President Evariste Ndayishimiye of Burundi was appointed to head the East African Community (EAC).President Uhuru Kenyatta of Kenya will step down in favor of Ndayishimiye following taking office in March 2021.At the close of the two-day conference…
The Cabinet will sit today to discuss whether to permit workers to be exported from Uganda to the Middle East. The government has been forced to have the hard talk due to the persistent cries of a group of employees, most of whom move to the Middle East to work as domestic helpers. The Cabinet…
Mr. Laban Joshua Musinguzi, the Coordinator of the Parliamentary Forum for Labour, Decent Employment and Productivity (PFLDEP) has called upon the Ministry of Gender, Labour and Decent Employment to carry out thorough consultations with all the members in the Labour externalization sector before presenting a comprehensive paper before Cabinet. This followed a July 4, Cabinet…
Police are investigating circumstances under which Batungura Bewotti 27, a student of law at Uganda Christian University Kampala Campus and resident of Kikoni Zone B, Makerere 3 Parish Kawempe Division in Kampala was murdered The incident took place yesterday July 14, 2022 at around 7pm during the last guild Presidential open campaigns at rugby grounds…
#Sml News has received exclusive info of a mini shakeup among Resident District/City Commissioners just months after the were appointed. The office of the presidency minister has been carrying out internal evaluation of the RDCs since they were appointed. Some have been recalled to the secretariat while others have been redeployed. President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni…
Two years after Parliament approved a 10m Euros (about Shs37.4b) loan for the Ministry of Health to construct new health facilities and rehabilitate old ones in Karamoja sub-region, nothing has been put on ground. This situation has upset Deputy Speaker Thomas Tayebwa who at the start of the Thursday afternoon plenary sitting, informed Parliament that…
The House has adopted a motion urging government to prioritise investment in health centre IVs across the country in a bid to improve access to services in areas where referral hospitals are hard to reach. According to the Speaker of Parliament, Anita Among, most constituencies and districts do not have hospitals and as such, health…
