By Julius Mugaga Tukacungurwa/Umoja Standard. Bugolobi-Kampala Uganda: During earth day celebration on 22 nd , April, 2023, stakeholders raised concern over deteriorating state of environment within Kampala city that has put life of dwellers in a serious danger. Just like others across the globe, Stakeholders that include Caritas Uganda, the Community Integrated Development Initiative (CIDI), Oxfam Uganda and others took action towards preserving and protecting Mother Earth. They called to action the government, private sector businesses, schools, the people of Uganda and the people of Kampala in particular to be accountable towards protecting mother earth. The event that was commemorated…
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GOSSIP: Kampala international guild president has died in a car accident today morning. He is known as Matovu Daglous and he was travelling alongside his other five friends although they didn’t die they were severely injured. The accident happened at Gombe road as the they were coming from a party in Masaka. KITALO NNYOOO. KIU guild President Matovu Daglas afiiridde mu kabenje e Bulwadda ku luguudo lwa Gomba Ssembabule ku saawa 9 ezikeseza ,ekiro Lya leero, abadde Ava masaka ku mbaga. Baabadde nabo abalala 5 baddusiddwa mu ddwaliro nga bataawa. Here are the photos ;
By Metedio Iceta. MOYO- The communique on the emergency cross border security meeting between central Equatorial State of South Sudan and districts of Moyo, Yumbe and Koboko held on 19th May, 2023 at Nasera Annex Hotel in Moyo Town, Moyo district. The leaders from both parts have affirmed their position to restore peace and harmony among the two sisterly countries. According to the declaration paper this newspaper has seen partly reads “We, the delegates of the cross-border security meeting on border issues in the Republic of Uganda represented by Mr. Gore Goffin the Resident District Commissioner Moyo District and the…
DRC: Miinister of Primary Secondary and Technical Education (EPST) in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Mr Tony Mwaba Kazadi has impregnated his Deputy Minister, Aminata Namasia, claiming it was an accident at work. On April 12, 2021, Aminata was appointed Kazadi’s deputy, and the two have had a love affair going on for quite some time now despite the fact that they’re both married. DR CONGO’S MINISTER OF EDUCATION, TONY MWABA KAZADI (L) AND HIS DEPUTY, AMINATA NAMASIA (R). The news of the minister ballooning her junior and deputy was revealed by a DRC reporter known as Lungila John…
GOSSIP: Media personality and influencer Sheilah Gashumba is not about to keep her relationship with Rickman Manrick behind the cameras. She is trying to show off all their romance live on camera so that people can get what is real about them. Sheila Gashumba and Rickman have been dating for some years now. But their relationship wasn’t welcomed by Sheila’s father Frank Gashumba. Instead of Sheila listening to the father, she increased the love for Rickman as she said she is not leaving him at any time. Although Frank Gashumba is always on social media, that hasn’t stopped Sheilah from…
By Metedio Iceta Kampala-As Uganda prepares to commemorate World Nutrition Day on May 28th, the International Rescue Committee (IRC) is warning about the dire consequences of acute malnutrition – the most life-threatening form of malnutrition – on women and children in Uganda’s refugee settlements where the number of cases across five settlements has risen by nearly 50% from 2021 to 2022. According to data collected from different IRC-supported health facilities and service points across the five settlements, there were close to 6,300 acute malnutrition cases treated in 2021, while in 2022, the figure rose to more than 9,300, with the majority of…
By Metedio Iceta. WESTNILE- Tensions along Uganda-South Sudan border over land dispute between Kuku tribe and West Nile district communities has now forced the leaders to convene a high level cross border meeting with delegations from South Sudan and Uganda for bilateral relationship. Mr Williams Anyama, the Moyo district LCV Chairman told daily monitor that leaders are ready to have high delegation meeting scheduled to take place on Friday with leadership of government of South Sudan which will be attended by both Kampala and Juba governments including the local authorities Westnile and local authorities of greater Kajo-Keji County. “We appealed to the people…
By Julius Mugaga,Mike Kasirye/ Umoja Standard. Kampala, Uganda: As most women in business and trade in Africa struggle for market and other business-related issues, the Institute for Social Transformation, (IST) conducted a meeting with members of Uganda Parliamentary Women Association, (UWOPA), Uganda Revenue Authority, (URA), members from Customs and Uganda Women Network, (UWONET) with the aim of engaging on how to help women in trade and Business boost them to get markets for their products in both domestic and foreign markets across boarders. Women are seen during the meeting. Photo by Mike Kasirye. According to some women in business, they…
By Julius Mugaga Tukacungurwa.Umoja Standard. Kampala, Uganda: His Excellency Simon Juang Deng, the South Sudan envoy to Uganda appeal to south Sudanese to protect the laws of Uganda and be law abiding citizens urguing that they have been hosted well so they in turn should conduct themselves well. He clang to leaders of South Sudanese in different parts of Uganda to tell young people to be law abiding not to cause trouble as a way of also ensuring the mission’s course of operating within Ugandan laws. Read History of SPM/A here. https://umojastandard.com/2023/05/17/president-salva-kiir-highlights-on-the-history-of-sudanese-peoples-liberation-liberation-movement-army-splm-a/ “As a diplomatic mission, we are responsible for…
Sudan People’s Liberation Movement/Army (SPLM.A) is a political party in South Sudan. It was initially founded as the political wing of the Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA; a key belligerent of the Second Sudanese Civil War) in 1983. On January 9, 2005 the SPLA, SPLM and Government of Sudan signed the Comprehensive Peace Agreement, ending the civil war. SPLM then obtained representation in the Government of Sudan, and was the main constituent of the Government of the then semi-autonomous Southern Sudan. When South Sudan became a sovereign state on 9 July 2011. South Sudan was first recognized as an independent nation on July 9, 2011, making it the 54th country in Africa…