April’s road crashes: “More than 10 killed in seven days” in Uganda
Nine people were confirmed dead after a fatal road crash along Masaka-Mbarara highway on Good Friday, according to Police’s PRO of Traffic and Road Safety, ASP Fraidha Nampiima.
Author: By Milton Emmy Akwam
World Health Day 2023: Wary as the nexus between climate change impacts, health becomes apparent
The African Coalition of Communities Responsive to Climate Change (ACCRCC) is a Coalition of African Communities responsive to Climate Change Impacts. They focus on the impacts of climate change including mental health.
NOTU’s Usher Owere defends receiving Daisy Award amid nurses’ petition
For the past one month, TND News request for comments from Daisy Foundation on awarding Owere and if they are ready to reallocate the award as demanded has been unheeded.
List of 24 countries barring women from conferring nationality to their children
A total of 12 countries have taken steps to remove gender discrimination from their nationality laws – crucial to ensuring that children are not left stateless if their fathers are stateless or unable to confer their nationality,” the global refugee agency stated.
Uganda road crashes: The law, and what ‘four months’ statistics’ represent
On January 1 to 8, 2023, 340 crashes were recorded in which 79 were killed and 245 injured, added Nampiima. She attributed the causes to careless driving, driving while using the phones and speeding.
Ending TB disease in Uganda and Africa’s slow pace
UPC wants the government to include free of charge camps of all TB related examinations and treatment as a supplement to heath outlets.
Climate experts react to IPCC report as efforts to limit global temperature rise continue
Ilan Zugman said the IPCC report is palpable in several places in Latin America, where denialist governments have acted, in recent years, as accomplices in the expansion of fossil fuels, while Indigenous peoples and social movements have led the demand for renewable energies.
TRIDI refutes allegations it influences PAC’s investigations on Dr Musenero’s Covid-19 expenditures
TRIDI is the leading implementer of the Sericulture project in Uganda and envisions increased industrialization and export development through sustainable adoption of Sericulture technologies and Innovations in Uganda.
“Resist attempts to spread vice of homosexuality,” speaker Among tells Namilyango college
“We have done our part to make a law against the vice (homosexuality) and I ask all parents to join the fight,” says speaker Among.
Kampala: Inside UPC, South Africa’s POA meeting
Jimmy Akena thanked POA for “such an official visit to the party headquarters and among other issues, he reminded them that UPC, Uganda and South Africa have a far long bond relationship”.
Govt told PDM is a huge undertaking and requires a pilot study
The government should therefore plan for PDM while bearing in mind that she is dealing with people from all walks of life and mindsets.
Wildlife scouts manning Queen Elizabeth National Park ‘proud of the job’ amid key challenges
Twinomugisha Deusdedit, the assistant warden community conservation for Queen Elizabeth national park responded to some of the issues raised by the wildlife scouts’ chairpersons in Kanungu and Rukungiri districts.