Museveni launches new agriculture model
President Yoweri Museveni on Sunday launched a new agriculture model that will increase productivity and alleviate the prevailing high unemployment across the country. The new agriculture project also
Uganda
-
World Food Program calls for end to high rates of impaired growth among children in semi-arid North eastern Uganda
The UN World Food Program (WFP) has called for more efforts to stop the high level of child stunting in semi-arid northeastern Uganda also known as Karamoja. Ryan Anderson, acting deputy WFP country
-
Kyetinda wetland encroachers facing eviction
KAMPALA - Residents of Makindye in Kampala who have encroached on Kyetinda Wetland in recent years have been left on tenterhooks. Their time in the swamp, according to the National Environment Management
-
UN urges African countries on use of green procurement system
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) on Monday urged African countries to adopt a green procurement system whereby they purchase products and services that cause minimal environmental impacts.
-
Unplanned urban sprawl threatens food security
Uganda’s unplanned urban sprawl is a threat to food security, the ministry of lands, housing and urban development has said. Samuel Mabala, the director for housing in the ministry, said the unplanned
-
Uganda: 83 Percent Ugandans With HIV Show Unseen Virus- Survey
Kampala — Uganda is a step closer to achieving 90 per cent of the people living with HIV/Aids having the amount of the virus in their bodies suppressed by 2020, as one of the global targets set to end
-
Rates down but Uganda's maternal mortality still high
Donors have lauded Uganda government's efforts and interventions to bring down the under-five mortality rate from 109 to 53 deaths per 1,000 live births between 2006-2016. But at 336 deaths per 100,000
-
Africa: Uganda's Electricity Governance Ranked the Best in Africa
Kampala — Uganda has Africa's best electricity regulatory system, according to the African Development Bank (AfDB's) 2018 Electricity Regulatory Index (ERI) report. Second is Namibia, tailed by Tanzania,
-
Explorations of inequality: childhood immunization
This report takes a detailed look at the current status of childhood immunization in 10 priority countries: Afghanistan, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Nigeria,
-
Adaptive and inclusive watershed management: assessing policy and institutional support in Uganda
This report explores existing institutional linkages between gender, water and climate change in Uganda. Climate change is affecting water quantity and quality in Uganda and is an emerging major threat