Category: Focus Africa
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EC hails peaceful village committee elections
KAMPALA – The Electoral Commission has commended the majority of Ugandans for participating peacefully in the special interest group elections for village committees for older persons, persons with disabilities, and youth. According to Julius Mucunguzi, spokesperson of the Electoral Commission, the elections were successful in over 99% of the country’s 71,227 villages. “The commission takes…
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Uganda’s GROW Project, A force Meant To Empower Women Entrepreneurs
After being launched in March 2023 by His Excellency Gen. Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, President of the Republic of Uganda, the Generating Growth Opportunities and Productivity for Women Enterprises (GROW) Project is a transformative government initiative aimed at empowering female entrepreneurs across the country. Funded through a USD 217 million grant from the International Development Association…
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Sudan fighting escalates after breakdown in ceasefire talks – Reports
The latest shaky truce between country’s army and RSF paramilitary came to an end on Saturday evening and has not been extended According to The Guardian, fighting has intensified in several areas of Khartoum after a ceasefire deal expired, residents of Sudan’s capital reported, as activists said a new outburst of violence in North Darfur…
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Waist Beads: What they truly mean in the Ugandan Culture
Presented to young women and girls by their mothers, grandmothers and aunties as a symbol of coming of age and other major life moment. African women wear waist beads to help with weight control, to keep a famine shape and train the stomach. When scales weren’t easy to come across waist beads were used to…
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Museveni receives prestigious South Africa award
President Yoweri Museveni has been awarded with the prestigious ‘Order of South Africa’ medal in recognition for his contribution in the liberation of the people of South Africa from the yoke of colonialism. The award was bestowed upon President Museveni by President Cyril Ramaphosa at a State dinner he and his wife Mrs. Ramaphosa hosted…
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Gender programmes not consumptive – Zimbabwean MPs
Kampala – Programmes related to gender and social development should never be looked at as being consumptive in nature during the budgeting process, Members of Parliament from Zimbabwe have cautioned. “The picture is not that different back home. The budgets for gender programmes are meager because the issues are considered consumptive, which is very wrong…