The project will entail of sponsoring engineers for further studies, sensitizing students in universities and technical institutions on engineering professional ethics, payment of 50 of the 100 internees salaries for one year, and encouraging engineers to register with both UIPE and the engineers registration board ERB.
Stephanie Rivoal, the French Ambassador in Uganda says in oil production, transparency and accountability is paramount, saying the Ugandan government should be able to account for all the money invested in the sector.
Justus Timbigamba, the In charge of Kyangwali Health Centre III told Uganda Radio Network that their biggest problem is drug shortages. He says the drugs they receive are inadequate given the high number of patients they attend to on a daily basis.
Stephanie Rivoal, the French Ambassador to Uganda, said the French government and other EU member countries are injecting huge sums of funds in infrastructure, water, health and electricity in terms of loans and grants.
The six year program worth 150.63 Euros equivalent to Shillings 670 billion is supported by the European Union EU. It is meant to consolidate stability in Northern Uganda, eradicate poverty and under-nutrition and strengthen the foundations for sustainable and inclusive socio-economic development.
Christine Karungi, the manager of the Skills Development Fund at Enabel told Uganda Radio Network that the training targets 4,400 beneficiaries before 2020. She said that in the first round, which is going on in refugees hosting communities, 1,500 beneficiaries are being trained.
The Chairperson of Uganda Human Rights Commission, Meddie Kaggwa also noted that the country was experiencing some draw backs citing incidents of violence against media practitioners by some elements within the police and continued application of unfavorable laws.
A civil society group was required to have been registered by the NGO Bureau for it to be eligible for funding under the second phase of the funding running for five years from 2018.
A statement from the EU delegation in Uganda says the money will be available for the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies IFRC
The European Union has criticised the visit of President Omar Al-Bashir to Uganda, a State party to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court ICC. The Sudanese leader yesterday concluded a two-day working visit to Uganda at the invitation of his counterpart, President Yoweri Museveni. Museveni and his guest looked at ease, holding talks in Entebbe State House and then visiting Musevenis farm in Gomba District, some 136kms outside Kampala
Deputy Speaker of Parliament Jacob Oulanyah has called on the European Union to assist African countries deal with youth unemployment and underemployment. Oulanyah is in Ljubljana, Slovenia attending the 6th Annual International Conference Africa Day.
Danish Ambassador to Uganda Mogens Pedersen said that the EU member states are strongly concerned about numerous attacks and intimidation against journalists and opinion makers in the country.
Ambassador Kristian Schmidt, the head of the European Union Delegation to Uganda has supported calls for dialogue between President Yoweri Museveni and Dr. Kizza Besigye, the former Forum for Democratic Change FDC party president.
Under the EUs Democracy and Human Rights Country strategy running from 2016-2020, EU states will cooperate with Uganda on freedom of assembly, association, expression and press freedom; accountability and anti-corruption; childrens rights and womens rights.
There is concern that the agreements will only make it harder for Africa to achieve the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals SDGs. Analysts say the agreements seem designed to completely remove whatever leverage remains for Africa to transform its economies.
Donors have asked Government of Uganda to punish those implicated by the Justice Catherine Bamugemerirwe inquiry into corruption at Uganda National Roads Authority UNRA.
Today, on behalf of the twenty seven leaders I can say that we are determined to keep our unity as twenty seven. For all of us, the Union is the framework for our common future. I would also like to reassure you that there will be no legal vacuum. Until the United Kingdom formally leaves the European Union, EU law will continue to apply to and within the UK.
Henry Okello Oryem, the Foreign Affairs State Minister, says Uganda will not take instructions from the EU, since they consider the recommendations as advice.
The funding is a major boost to the investment case for raising 13 billion US Dollars 43 trillion Shillings, embracing the global goal of ending HIV, tuberculosis and malaria as epidemics by 2030. The investment case was launched in December 2015 by the Global Fund.
