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  • Legislators summon Gen. Odongo over insecurity

    Posted: 11 Jul 2019 The Minister of Internal Affairs, Gen Jeje Odongo has been directed by Parliament to explain the current wave of insecurity and what government is doing about it. The Speaker of Parliament, Rebecca...

  • MPs query Mubende Hospital’s expenditure

    Posted: 10 Jul 2019 Stalled construction works at Mubende Regional Referral Hospital have been attributed to a high cost of implementation compared to annual budgetary allocations to the facility. In the 2013/2014...

  • Kadaga launches construction of cancer bunkers

    Posted: 10 Jul 2019 The Speaker of Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga, has broken ground for the construction of bunkers for linear accelerator machines necessary for the treatment of cancer. Kadaga who was also launching the...

  • Health Committee to table Medical Insurance Bill

    Posted: 10 Jul 2019 After waiting on government for 15 years, said Speaker Rebecca Kadaga, a Bill on medical insurance will be introduced by the Committee on Health and legislated by Parliament during the current...

  • LOP calls for more gov’t funding to support refugees

    Posted: 05 Jul 2019 The Leader of the Opposition (LOP) in Parliament, Hon. Aol Betty Ocan, has asked government to provide more funding to cater for the needs of refugees hosted in Uganda. Ocan, who together with...

  • Nine Eastern Uganda districts fail to recover youth funds

    Posted: 05 Jul 2019 Members of Parliament’s Local Government Accounts Committee have asked Chief Administrative Officers to penalise staff who have failed to properly supervise the Youth Livelihood Project in Eastern...

  • Entrench development, Oulanyah tells northern Uganda

    Posted: 01 Jul 2019 The end of decades of conflict in the North should herald an era of accelerated development, the Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Jacob Oulanyah has said. Negative rhetoric that encourages conflict and...

  • Kadaga tasks Foreign Affairs Ministers on visas

    Posted: 01 Jul 2019 The Speaker of Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga, has tasked the foreign affairs ministers of Africa take interest in the challenges faced by their people in securing visas to other countries with an aim of...

  • Legal Aid Bill set back by financial implications – Oulanyah

    Posted: 28 Jun 2019 The reluctance of the finance ministry to issue a Certificate of Financial Implication for the Legal Aid Bill, 2018 continues to hinder its progress in Parliament. This, the Deputy Speaker of...

  • Youth want African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance ratified

    Posted: 28 Jun 2019 Members of the East African Youth Leaders have requested the Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Jacob Oulanyah, to champion the ratification, domestication and implementation of the African Charter on...

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