Month: September 2025

  The World Health Organization (WHO) has newly donated infection prevention and Control materials for the Mpox response to Sierra Leone's national health authorities. The supplies aim to enhance the government's response efforts to Mpox in schools. With this donation, the WHO has now delivered financial and technical support worth USD one million since the Government of Sierra Leone declared Mpox a Public Health Emergency in January 2025. The donation, […]

  The Committee on Public Accounts (Central Government) has drawn the attention of legislators to exaggerated costs of government-funded infrastructure projects. In its report on the Auditor General’s findings for the 2023-2024 financial year, PAC systematically breaks down how taxpayers are paying up to three times more for roads of similar length and quality. Rehabilitating a 1.37-kilometre road in Arua City, for example, costs Shs13.4 billion, while 2.68 kilometres in […]

  Speaker Anita Among has deferred the debate over Lake Bunyonyi pollution to Thursday, 11 September 2025, to incorporate broader parliamentary perspectives. The presiding officer's guidance follows protest from Hon. John Baptist Nambeshe, the Chief Opposition Whip, in response to the statement presented by the Minister of State for Water and Environment, Hon. Aisha Sekindi, on the lake’s alarming brownish discolouration, foul odor, oily film, and white foam. “It is […]

  As part of efforts to accommodate more school-aged children, new classrooms have been constructed at Adi-Hawsha Elementary School at a cost of 800 thousand Nakfa. At the inauguration ceremony held on 3 September, Mr. Belai Habtegabir, head of the education office in the Central Region, said the construction of additional classrooms will significantly contribute to the teaching-learning process and expand access to education for more children. He also commended […]

  Members of the Ministry of Health branch in the Central Region have voluntarily donated 56 units of blood. Mr. Suleiman Romodan, member of the promotion and information unit at the branch office, said that due to increased awareness, members are donating blood regularly and working earnestly for the success of the programs of the National Blood Transfusion Service and the Voluntary Blood Donors Association. He also called on other […]

  African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) (www.Afreximbank.com) has today launched the African Trade and Distribution Company (ATDC) to catalyse large scale trade in raw materials, minerals and value-added products from across Africa.  Afreximbank, through the Fund for Export Development in Africa (FEDA), established ATDC in collaboration with Arise Integrated Industrial Platforms (Arise IIP), Equitane DMCC and the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Secretariat. The new entity has already secured a […]