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  • Education Ministry seeks more funds for disasters, study loans

    Posted: 25 Jan 2022 The Ministry of Education and Sports requires an additional Shs28.38 billion to enhance its contingency budget to address long-term effects of disasters on institutions of learning. Parliament's...

  • Parliament asked to reverse cuts on health sector budget

    Posted: 25 Jan 2022 The Committee on Health wants Parliament to reverse its decision to trim off Shs113.14 billion from the health sector budget saying it will affect key interventions. The committee led by the...

  • Find money for maternal health, says UWOPA

    Posted: 25 Jan 2022 Members of Parliament under the Uganda Women Parliamentary Association (UWOPA) have asked government to re-align its priorities and find money to fight maternal mortality which they said is on the...

  • MPs halt financing UPDF operations in Congo

    Posted: 25 Jan 2022 Parliament’s Committee on Budget has decided to stay allocations to ‘Operation Shujaa’, a code name for the Uganda People’s Defense Forces campaign against the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) in Congo...

  • Clerk to Parliament lauds EALA for steering integration

    Posted: 25 Jan 2022 The Clerk to Parliament, Hon Adolf Mwesige, has lauded the East African Legislative Assembly (EALA) for working towards the realisation of East African integration. Mwesige said that East African...

  • Budget Committee questions role of EAC Ministry

    Posted: 24 Jan 2022 Members of the Budget Committee have questioned the role of the Ministry of East African Community Affairs over its reported failure to engage the East African Community Membership on trade barriers...

  • Delays in Financial Remittances from Member States Frustrate EALA MPs

    Posted: 24 Jan 2022 Delays in financial remittances from member states are still a major impediment to the operations and activities of the East African Legislative Assembly (EALA). This was revealed by EALA MPs sitting...

  • Auditor General on spot over classified expenditure audit

    Posted: 24 Jan 2022 The Finance Committee has pinned the Office of the Auditor General (OAG) over unaudited accounts of classified expenditures, amounting Shs6.8 trillion     Lawmakers who were receiving the 2022/2023...

  • Economists call for budget re-prioritisation

    Posted: 24 Jan 2022 The Economic Policy Research Center (EPRC) says the Covid-19 pandemic caused a drop in revenues, economic shutdown and new expenditure pressures which now calls forre-prioritization of national...

  • Defence seeks Shs89 billion for ADF war

    Posted: 24 Jan 2022 Officials from the Ministry of Defence and Veteran Affairs led by State Minister of Defence (General Duties), Hon Jacob Marksons Oboth  have made a case for Shs89 billion to finance the ongoing...

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