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  • Team Uganda buoyant as EAC games kick-off in Arusha

    Posted: 07 Dec 2021 The East African Community Inter-Parliamentary Games have commenced in Arusha, Tanzania, with the Ugandan team led by Chairperson Parliamentary Sports Committee MP Asuman Basalirwa (Jeema, Bugiri...

  • MPs call for increased advocacy, funding for HIV/AIDS

    Posted: 07 Dec 2021 Legislators have asked non-governmental organisations to intensify activism and awareness about HIV/AIDS in Uganda. The Members of Parliament made the appeal during an orientation seminar organised...

  • Speaker to FUFA: Count on Parliament support

    Posted: 07 Dec 2021 Parliament is committed to support the sports sector, Speaker Jacob Oulanyah has said. Oulanyah made the pledge at the Airtel - Federation of Uganda Football Association (FUFA) Awards on Saturday, 04...

  • Oulanyah rallies Agago to take up vaccination

    Posted: 04 Dec 2021 The Speaker of Parliament, Jacob Oulanyah, has called on youth in Agago and Pader districts to get vaccinated saying they are much safer vaccinated than without the vaccine. Oulanyah was the chief...

  • Uganda ready to implement new secondary curriculum

    Posted: 03 Dec 2021 The Prime Minister and Leader of Government Business in Parliament, Robinah Nabbanja, has informed legislators that Uganda's education sector is on course in rolling out the new lower secondary...

  • Gov’t urged to speed up trial of Rwenzururu Guards

    Posted: 03 Dec 2021 A section of legislators have called on government to grant a speedy trial to the royal guards of the Rwenzururu Kingdom who were arrested and detained in 2016 for abetting an insurgency. The MPs...

  • Gov’t heightens surveillance in light of new Covid variant

    Posted: 02 Dec 2021 The Government has intensified surveillance measures on most of the points of entry to curb the spread of Omicron, a new COVID-19 variant, the Minister of Health has said. While presenting a...

  • 'Focus on the ordinary Ugandan', Oulanyah tells UHRC

    Posted: 02 Dec 2021 The Speaker of Parliament, Jacob Oulanyah, has urged government agencies to focus their research studies and recommendations on the plight of the common man. According to the Speaker, a number of...

  • Campaign against early marriages, failed parenthood takes root

    Posted: 02 Dec 2021 Legislators have championed a government backed national campaign to combat defilement, early marriages and failed parenthood. The Vice President, H.E. Jessica Alupo, in her statement to Parliament...

  • Parliament commits to enhance funding towards HIV/AIDS

    Posted: 02 Dec 2021 Parliament has pledged to increase funding towards efforts geared at combatting HIV/AIDS as the country celebrates Worlds AIDS Day. 1st December is designated as the international day for raising...

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