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After five years of impactful intervention, Uganda Infant mortality rate has declined, Uganda National Bureau of Statistics health survey report has revealed. The Demographic and Health Survey 2022 report released shows that infant mortality rate reduced from 88 deaths per 1000 live births in 2000/2011 to 36 deaths per 1000 live births in 2022. The report further show that under five mortality also declined from 151 deaths per 1000 live births to 52 deaths live births in the same period. State Minister for Finance in a statement Amos Lugolobi thanked UBOS, Ministry of Health, Makerere University, Uinted Nations Family…
By David Birungi This year marks 25 years since the reforms that have progressively transformed the communications sector in this country. We join in celebrating the Uganda Communications Commission that has presided over most of these reforms, some bad, most of them transformative. In 1989 when Sir Tim Berners-Lee created the web, the NRM/A was still reorganizing the country and the Uganda Posts and Telecommunications (UP&TC) service was still for the privileged few. That has since changed. We are connected in many ways than before but we need to include in many more people, faster. This connected life of…
Although Uganda launched her digital transformation agenda last year, Uganda’s low uptake and penetration of smartphones in the country is affecting the digital transformation agenda Uganda Communication Commission (UCC), Executive Director Nyombi Thembo has revealed. According to Nyombi only 22% of Ugandans own smartphones, which makes it very difficult to fully drive the country into the digital agenda. Nyombi says there are even still challenges relating to those who own smartphones, although data uptake is going up with 36 million sim cards reported to be in active usage as of 2023. The ICT Ministry in partnership with the United…
The 2024 Miss World contest concluded in India, with Miss Uganda, Hannah Karema, winning the Miss World Africa Beauty With A Purpose (BWAP) award. To win this award, Hannah surpassed over 100 contestants although she didn’t clinch the overall crown, which was won by Czech Republic’s Krystyna Pyszková, she made it to the top 8 and also secured the second position in Africa. This has excited most ugandans and inspired young girls to follow fashion business. Hannah Karema, the current StarTimes Brand Ambassador, returned to Uganda before addressing the media at StarTimes headquarters on Lumumba Avenue in Kampala City,…
The 2024 Miss World contest concluded in India, with Miss Uganda, Hannah Karema, winning the Miss World Africa Beauty With A Purpose (BWAP) award. To win this award, Hannah surpassed over 100 contestants although she didn’t clinch the overall crown, which was won by Czech Republic’s Krystyna Pyszková, she made it to the top 8 and also secured the second position in Africa. This has excited most ugandans and inspired young girls to follow fashion business. Hannah Karema, the current StarTimes Brand Ambassador, returned to Uganda before addressing the media at StarTimes headquarters on Lumumba Avenue in Kampala City,…
The Vice Chancellor of Clarke International University (CIU) Dr Rose Clarke Nanyonga has asked Parliament to expedite the process to ensure that student loan scheme benefits all university students to improve higher education uptake. Presiding over the university 14th graduation ceremony Nanyonga said eligible students are failing to complete university because of lack of tuition fees to secure their university education. “We would government to extend loan scheme to all universities to ensure that those eligible for university education can complete their education,” she said. The University Chancellor Dr Moses Galukande urged graduates to embrace positive mind set and…
The Executive Director of Nile Basin Initiative Dr Florence Adong has handed over 13 hydrological stations to Ministry of Water and Environment to facilitate in the monitoring of lake victoria water levels along the Nile region. The Nile River is the longest river on earth and covers 10% of Africa’s population and communities have shared the Nile as source of livelihood for investment and social economic development. The Hydro Meteorological Stations were constructed with support of the Nile Basin Initiative funded by the European Union and the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). The objective of…
Uganda Gorilla’s top the country’s tourist attraction despite gorillas being endangered species with population of mountains gorillas on decrease. Below is Dr Gladys Kalema-Zikusooka the incredible founder of Gorilla Conservation Coffee saving life of Gorillas and improving farmers livelihood out of passion. Tell us how your social entrepreneurship journey started My name is Dr. Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka and I am the founder and Chief Executive Officer of a social enterprise called Gorilla Conservation Coffee. We started to provide premium prices to coffee farmers living around the protected areas where the gorillas live. We wanted to stop them from depending on…
MUSEVENI REAPPOINTS DR CHRIS MUKIIZA AS UBOS DIRECTO President Yoweri Museveni has reappointed Dr Chris Mukiiza to serve as Executive Director of Uganda Bureau of Statistics. Mukiza previously (in 1992) worked as a statistician at the Ugandan Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development. Mukiza holds a doctor of philosophy in statistics awarded in 2008 by the University of Southampton in United Kingdom. His PhD thesis was titled “Essays On Growth And Absolute Poverty: Evidence From Uganda”. MukizUbosa joined UBOS in March 2000. From 2009 until 2019, he served as the Director of Macroeconomic statistics at UBOS. In that position,…
After serving deligently for 36 years, Inspector General of Police Martin Okoth Ochola has retired from Uganda Police. He assumed Uganda Police highest office in 2018 after massive shake-up that ousted General Kale Kayihura. When his first three-year contract expired in March 2021, President Yoweri Museveni extended it for another three years which expired on March, 4. “On 2nd January 2024, I made a service record of thirty-six years in the Uganda Police Force, having joined the Institution on the 2nd January 1988. Within this period, which was climaxed by my appointment as Inspector General of Police, I was particularly…