NAIROBI: Kenya’s new president Dr William Samoei Ruto has revealed plans to increase salaries of all public servants as the government seeks to raise the morale of employees under the civil service. Public Service, Affirmative Action and Gender Cabinet Secretary (CS) Aisha Jumwa Karisa Katana has revealed that the increment would be effected in a period as short as 100 days.
Uganda’s Ministry of Health has asked officials at First Lady Janet Kataaha Kainembabazi Museveni’s Ministry of Education and Sports to shorten the third term of the current academic calendar year as a way of preventing the spread of the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD)T.
A Ugandan delegation at the ongoing 61st session of the Organisation of the African, Caribean and Pacific States Parliamentary Assembly (OACPS PA) and 42nd Session of the ACP-European Union joint Parliamentary Assembly (ACP-EU JPA) in Maputo City, Mozambique has vowed to oppose plans by pro-gay nations to impose the promotion of homosexuality and abortion as new conditions for trade and aid relationships with European Union.
Details have emerged of a shooting on Monday evening at a police station in Busiika where two officers of the Uganda Police Force (UPF) were killed. The incident happened at around 07:30 pm on Monday, October 31, 2022.
Uganda Prisons Services (UPS) has recorded a d double murder incident of two staff at Bugungu Y.O Government Prison, in Buikwe District. The incident happened in t6he morning of October 31, 2022.
Ahead of Uganda’s 60th Independence anniversary, Buganda Kingdom monarch Kabaka Ronald Muwenda Mutebi II appeared addressed his subjects on October 08, 2022 (Bulungi bwa Bwa Nsi Day). But the address raised concerns on the health of the Kabaka, with some calling on Kingdom Prime Minister Katikkiro Charles Peter Mayiga to ensure that the king gets proper treatment.
A long-serving Member of the South Sudanese Parliament has died in the South Sudan capital Juba after a short illness. Veronica Louis Renzi was aged 73 and had been a law maker for 47 years. Renzi represented a constituency in Western Equatoria State under Salva Kiir’s government. She was a nominated member of the SPLM in the Revitalized Transitional Legislative Assembly (R-TNLA).
Socialite and NBS TV presenter Sheilah Carol Gashumba has alleged that she has survived an assassination attempt, raising concerns that some people are trailing her with the intention of killing her over political reasons. The political reasons reportedly relate to her father Frank Gashumba’s comments on media shows.
A few days ago, Ugandan first son Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba stole media headlines when he declared his interest in becoming the country’s next president, and taking over from his father Gen Yoweri Kaguta Tibuhaburwa Museveni, the former bush commander that has ruled the nation for nearly 40 years.