By Sarah Achen Kibisi. Government tasked the Ministry for Finance to urgently provide Shs135 billion for the procurement of food to alleviate the hunger crisis in Karamoja Sub-region, amid complaints of inadequate interventions by area Members of Parliament. Prime Minister Robinah Nabbanja this month told Parliament that the funds will be used to procure food…
By Dorothy Nekesa. The National Sports Forum of Federations/ Associations convened for the quarter four meeting of the financial year 2021-2022 on June 27, 2022 at the Lugogo based Copper Chimney Restaurant. The Honorable Minister of state for Education and Sports Denis Hamson Obua chaired the 4 hour meeting speaking harmonization and streamlining in accordance…
By Erick Matovu. The Unions of the Construction Sector of Greece express our solidarity with the Roofers Local 36 of Los Angeles, USA, the workers and the unionist Cliff Smith, the Business Manager of the union. We condemn the practices of the AFL-CIO, a member of the ITUC, against our colleague and his union, which…
By James Wafula in Nairobi. Long serving Kenya’s Central Organisation of Trade Unions (COTU) Secretary General Mr Francis Atwoli has once again repeated his Labour day appeal to Kenyan workers to vote for former Prime Minister Raila Odinga in the August 9, 2022 General elections. Atwoli was commenting on the high cost of living in…
By James Wafula in Nairobi. By the time Kenya’s founding president Jomo Kenyatta was dying in August 1978 having ruled for 15 years, he was one of Africa’s richest political elite with a vast fortune that include 1 million acres of prime land to multi-million shilling princely properties and businesses spread across the country. Yet…
By Our Reporter. The National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) welcomes release of journalists Mohamed Abdi Sheik and Abdijabar Mohamed Hussein from Hargeisa Central Prison, after spending nearly three months in custody. The release of the two journalists, which took place on Saturday 2 July 2022, follows a presidential pardon granted to them by Somaliland…
By Sarah Achen Kibisi. Parliament has rejected the selective salary enhancements for science teachers and wants salary pay rise for all public servants in the country to avert strikes from other sectors. Speaker of Parliament, Anita Among while presiding over the House said that on the Issue of salary enhancements “You cannot give what you…
By Agatha Namirembe Arembe in Geneva. New commitments by the G7 Leaders, covering gender equality, tackling inflation, climate change, and support for a just transition to a sustainable and inclusive future, have been welcomed by the ILO. The International Labour Organization (ILO) has welcomed the commitments in the G7 Leaders’ Communiqué to work together –…
By Our Reporter. For the first time since multi-party elections in 1992, the over assertive central Kenya region has no front runner in the August 2022 presidential race. The community that has produced 3 out of Kenya’s 4 presidents in 60 years, can only count on becoming number two. This is regardless of whether DP…
By James Wafula in Nairobi. The US and European Union have renewed earlier travel advisories to Kenya ahead of the August 9, 2022 General election warning of possible poll related violence. They say the chaos could happen during voting or after announcing results, according to analysis of “credible pressure points.” Statements posted on their Twitter…