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Stella Lanam, Director of War Victims and Children Networking Initiative revealed that many war victims are being rejected by the communities and also currently facing a lot of challenges within the community they lived.

Kazoora said he never mined a lower of higher rank in the army because when he went to the bush, he never set out to be in the army apart from fighting for freedom

He says like people who tell lies, the Constitution of Uganda tells lies probably for the purposes of keeping peace.

Victor Bua Leku the commissioner of Human Resource Management at the Ministry of Public Service said the government has spent trillions of shillings in improving service delivery but the results are not forthcoming.

Lumu however raised concerns about how the Leader of the Opposition in Parliament is elected which excludes other opposition political parties represented in Parliament, yet a leader of the opposition superintends to all members of the opposition in Parliament.

She explained that the Parliament is not incurring any additional costs to the sitting adding that the move was a strategic decision taken to upgrade the always budgeted for parliamentary outreaches into a fully-fledged House sitting.

She explained that Parliament is not just a building situated in Kampala but can sit anywhere around the country.

The Speaker expressed concern that the crisis of failure to deploy the interns has been happening year after year.

“This pettiness of not just from Chris Obore but Ugandans who say oh it is personal. We have heard that it is personal ever since we started these exhibitions. And this must be the sixth” Said Atuhaire

“Be informed that APG has 30 members and 3 ex-officios. Therefore, five members out of 30 cannot sit and appoint themselves to the leadership of the APG without following due process. The APG leaders are elected but not appointed,” Anywar’s statement reads in part.

Joyce Mpanga was the third girl in East Africa to get a University degree and the first Ugandan woman to win a US Fulbright scholarship. This Obituary has audio of the late retrieved from URN archives.

Kyemba’s life story is illuminated by his years of service as the Private Secretary to Presidents Apollo Milton Obote and Idi Amin Dada, a minister in the Amin and Museveni governments, a member of the Constituent Assembly that made the 1995 constitution, and a Member of the Sixth Parliament of Uganda.

But members of different civil society actors which include the African Institute for Energy Governance (AFIEGO) and 12 others in a statement said they were dismayed that President Museveni returned the Income Tax (Amendment) Bill 2023 to Parliament asking it to grant a one-year tax waiver to Bujagali Energy Limited (BEL).

A number of tributes are also flowing in praise of Hussien Kyanjo, who while living preached and practiced “Politics of honesty and openness”

Family sources and friends confirmed his death but the cause is yet to be ascertained. A close relative told URN that he died suddenly on Saturday night.

While there are questions on whether there is a need to import electricity from Kenya, some suggest the bigger questions include whether Isimba Dam was insured. Why should the government pay to repair the Dam after the floods if it was really insured? What about the threats the Dam poses to nearby communities?

Oulanyah’s family member had demanded that his 32-year-old son Andrew Ojok Oulanyah be fronted unopposed to finish his father’s term in Parliament.

The Northern Uganda Diocese Bishop Rev. Godfrey Loum, however, says whereas Oulanyah’s death is painful, it was too early to question and point fingers at who could have caused his death.

The groups says instead of criminalizing sex work, specific regulatory frameworks should be put in place to protect sex workers and grant them the same rights as any other laborer.