I am responsible for looking at IUCN ESARO’s priorities and developing that into a communication strategy to position IUCN as the go-to entity on matters to do with conservation.
Author: Milton Emmy Akwam
Posted inEnvironment / News
International Wildlife Day 2023: UPC calls for preservation of Crested Crane, environment
The celebration will be held under the theme “Partnerships for Wildlife Conservation” and for Uganda, Tororo district will host it.
Posted inOpinion
Interview: Mugeni on Uganda Muslims’ ‘untimely protest against’ homosexuality
If God still spares homosexuals, how much more must men he create imitate him?
Posted inPolitics
UPC Ideology School to start countrywide
Lira Ideology School was launched in July 2010 and there were lectures at the home of the party’s founding father, the Late Dr Apollo Milton Obote in senior quarters, Lira City East.
Posted inNews / Profile
Profile: URF’s Eng. Andrew Naimanye elected president of East Africa Road Funds
The term of office for an elected president is two years. In 2025, another election should take place.
Posted inFeatured / News
Recalling posho, iron sheets scandals and political corruption in Uganda
“Corruption in Uganda is systematic and endemic.” “It’s political and it is bureaucratic…”
Posted inNews
UPC mourning with Turkey and Syria, tells UN to take lead in handling global disasters
Speaking for the UPC party that led Uganda twice, Arach noted that the increased arms race in the world leads to the testing of deadly weapons especially underground or in the sea.
Posted inNews / Profile
Ugandans urged to emulate Archbishop Janan Luwum and ‘fight against unjustified killings, abductions’
In 2015, President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni declared February 16 a public holiday which has since been respected.
Posted inEducation / News
UPC tells NRM govt “our old education model can be an eye-opener and a magic bullet for you”
UPC and Milton Obote Foundation (MOF) had walked this journey before; with a subsidiary known as Uganda School Supplies that provided scholastic materials to all schools across the country and owned a furniture factory in Mbale…
Posted inInterview / Road Carnage
Interview: VTCA’s Muwaga Hannington on pre-hospital care, worrying crash data; plans and more
We need to develop aeromedical ambulances and aeroplanes. Recently, our minister had a problem but even the aeroplane that evacuated him was not aero-medical, Muwaga tells me.
Posted inHealth / News
Exclusive: Lack of Good Samaritan Law linked to increased road crash fatalities in Uganda
Uganda and the rest of Africa are yet to introduce Good Samaritan Law to speed up emergency responses.
Posted inEducation / News
Milk a ‘priority’ as ‘schools reopen amidst unclear directives by govt’
“In early 1980s this (milk) program was run in secondary schools, colleges and universities but broader covering a wider range of food items,” UPC recalled.