By James Wafula In Nairobi The NGO council of Kenya has welcomed the decision by the Azmio opposition suspending street protests for one month to give bipartisan talks a chance to iron out the political differences with the government. In a press statement issued Thursday May 4 2023 at his Nyayo house headquarters in Nairobi,…
By Sarah Achen Kibisi. In a bid to improve the welfare of workers, a section of companies that recruit for labour export have formed a new association. External Labour Agencies of Uganda (ELAU) parted ways with Uganda Association of External Recruitment Agencies (UAERA). Over 70 companies have joined ELAU on realizing that UAERA has fell…
By Hon. Charles Bakkabulindi. The report further reveals that people in informal employment are estimated at 93%. The unemployment rate is 9.4% implying that as at 2014, 1.6 million of the working age population was unemployed. The percentages of people in employment are given as follows; • 64% of working population is engaged in subsistence…
By James Wafula in Nairobi. The NGO council of Kenya has welcomed the directive by Nairobi governor Johnson Sakaja that the county will employ 3500 youth to help clean up the city, open drainage and blocked sewers saying the move was a step in the right direction for the nearly 5 million long suffering residents….
By James Wafula in Nairobi. The NGO council of Kenya has called for a broad consensus in the proposed 2023-2024 Finance Bill that seeks to impose a mandatory 3 percent tax on all income earners in the public sector to go towards housing for low income groups and 16 percent VAT on fuel saying there…
By Our Reporter. The Sudanese government has declared the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) rebels that are fighting Khartoum authorities, a terrorist organization. RSF rebels have been holding onto parts near the airport in Darfur, and other locations hundreds of miles away from the capital, Khartoum but are targeting civilians. But the Sudanese Armed Forces under…
By Jackson Okata – IJNet. A human rights project in Kenya has launched a new curriculum to train journalists in the country on how best to report on human rights related issues. An initiative of the Canadian media development organization, Journalists for Human Rights, the Voice for Women and Girls’ Rights curriculum seeks to improve…
By Stephen Ouma Bwire in Ramallah, Palestine. The Palestinian Prime Minister H.E Mohammad Ibrahim Shtayyeh has opened Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate Congress in Ramallah. The conference preceded a video documenting Palestinian Journalists killed by Israeli forces. Prime Minister Shtayyeh called on Israeli authorities to stop repression and killing of Palestinians. The Premier who represented President Mahmoud…
By Our Reporter. Speaker of Parliament Rt Hon Anita Among has urged her counterparts in the legislative assemblies of the member states in East Africa to embrace and emulate Uganda on the Anti-Homosexuality Bill, (Amendment), 2023 as a measure to widen the safety net for the moral fiber of the East African region. In her…
By Our correspondent. Journalists’ leaders and representatives from across Eastern Africa have called for decisive action to support media professionals in their efforts to combat disinformation, misinformation, and hate speech propagated by violent extremists. The appeal came at the end of a two-day regional workshop on the role of media in countering violent extremism and…