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The Minister for Gender, Labour and Social Development, Hon. Betty Amongi, has tabled the Bill to amend the 2006 Occupational Safety and Health Act, during the Tuesday, 09 January 2024 plenary sitting chaired by Speaker Anita Among. The Bill titled, “Occupational Safety and Health (Amendment) Bill, 2023”, intends to cater for health and safety in all workplaces, removing inconsistencies in the principal act as well as streamlining the power of […]

The Speaker of Parliament, Anita Among, has reiterated Parliament’s commitment to reduce public borrowing. Among said this on Tuesday, 09 January 2024 while receiving the Annual Report of the Auditor General on the Public Accounts for the Financial Year ended 30th June 2023 from the Auditor General, John Muwanga. Among emphasised the importance of conducting regular value for money audits to foster public accountability and reduce unnecessary borrowing. “As Parliament, […]

President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has today bid farewell to Ms. Elsie G. Attafuah, the outgoing United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Resident Representative for Uganda who paid a courtesy call on him at his country home in Rwakitura, Kiruhura District. Ms. Elsie has been the UNDP Resident Representative for Uganda for four and a half years. President Museveni thanked Ms. Elsie for her fundamental contribution in the development of Uganda, noting […]

A Qatari Armed Forces aircraft carrying 28 tons of aid, including foodstuffs provided by Qatar Fund for Development (QFFD), arrived Tuesday in Arish City of the Arab Republic of Egypt in preparation to transport it to Gaza, bringing the number of aircraft to 60 with a total of 1,879 tons of aid.  The assistance comes within the framework of the State of Qatar's support for the brotherly Palestinian people, as […]

Our engagement to support the people of what is today South Sudan began decades ago, and it began truly as people-to-people engagement. It was and remains based on values including peace, human rights, democracy, and people’s right to a government that is responsive to their needs, not to that of a small elite. We continue to look for signs that South Sudanese leaders share these values. The best way for them […]

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In continuation of the restructuring of its operations, Mr Toke Alex-Ibru has been appointed as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of The Guardian (https://Guardian.ng). This development emerged as Mr Martins Oloja, Managing Director/Editor-in-Chief steps down following notice of retirement, which will expire at the end of March 2024. In an announcement by the newspaper’s Board yesterday, Alex-Ibru is expected to deploy his experience in the corporate industry to enrich the […]

The University of Cape Town handed over to the Hellenic Republic the artifact Lindos II 481 (IG XII,1) ' : fragment of inscription from the Lindos Temple to Athena&Zeus, Rhodes Island, 2nd cen. A.D. The artifact was delivered by Dr Matthew Shelton, Head of Classics, the University of Cape Town School of Languages&Literatures to Consul Sotirios Demestihas at a special ceremony in the presence of the Cape Town Hellenic Community.Distributed […]

Ahead of the trial on 10 January of prominent independent journalist Zied El-Heni who has been arbitrarily detained since 28 December 2023 for “insulting” a Tunisian government minister on a radio show, Fida Hammami, Amnesty International’s Tunisia Research and Advocacy Advisor, said: “Tunisian authorities persist in their chilling disregard for freedom of expression by punishing yet another person simply for criticizing government officials. It is profoundly shameful that Zied El-Heni is behind […]