By Our Correspondent in Kigali. This year’s Aviation Africa Summit and exhibition was co-located with SMIESA – the 1st World Airports event – and opened by Rwandan President, H.E. Paul Kagame on September 12, 2022 in Kigali.. The Rwandan leader sent a strong message of support for the aviation industry along with a reaffirmed determination…
By Sarah Achen Kibisi. patlis2000@yahoo.com Uganda Parliament this month passed the Computer Misuse (Amendment) Bill, 2022. If the bill is assented to by the President, the new law will among others enhance the protection of children and prohibit the sending or sharing of information that promotes hatred. However opposition Shadow Minister for Technology Hon Gorreth…
By Hon Agnes Kunihira Abwoli Female Workers MP agneskunihira@yahoo.com Collective Bargaining is a key means of determining the best terms and conditions of employment at workplaces. This is an greed standard established by ILO convention 98; it applies to all ILO Member countries and Uganda is one of them. In preparation of CBAs it is…
By Africanews. The European Parliament adopted a resolution condemning the planned East African Crude Oil Pipeline this month dealing another blow to the controversial project, which numerous banks and insurers have declined to back. The pipeline, spearheaded by French oil giant Total, would carry oil harvested from beneath Lake Albert and Murchison Falls National Park…
By Africanews. A razed-down semi-permanent house, a mosquito net hanging from the grass roof, and scattered red bricks wash off. It is what remains from what used to be Muhamuza Dominic`s home. When the deal to transport crude oil to Tanzania was reached, he fell among the hundreds traversing ten districts whose properties will be…
By Hon Charles Bakkabulindi,Workers’ MP. bakkacharles@gmail.com What is Social Security? Social security is defined by the ILO as ” the protection that a society provides to individuals and households to ensure access to health care and to guarantee income security, particularly in cases of old age, unemployment sickness, invalidity, work injury, maternity or loss of…
By Our Correspondent in Brussels. A group of exiled Sudanese political activists, human rights activists and civil society organisations are planning a peaceful demonstration against the Sudanese military leaders led by General Abdel Fattah Al- Burhann.The demonstration that will take place on October 4th at 11h in front of the European Commission in Brussels, aims…
By Julius Odeke. How poverty, illiteracy and ignorance are facilitating teenage pregnancies in one of Uganda’s districts and helping to create a great burden on the country’s National Treasury. A fourteen-year-old Miss. Grace Kantono, walks ponderously with an observable tired gait. Strapped to her back is the burden of her two-year-old daughter; and she is going to a not-too-far away private clinic at Budaka Town Council, two kilometres from her…
By Badreldeen Khalafallah Alawad– badrkhalaf@gmail.com. A new WHO report confirms that HIV infection is a significant independent risk factor for both severe/ critical COVID-19 presentation at hospital admission and in-hospital mortality. Overall, nearly a quarter (23.1%) of all people living with HIV who were hospitalized with COVID-19, died. The report is based on clinical surveillance…
By Our Reporter. European organisations have castigated China for human rights violations and for taking advantage of economic crisis in Sri Lanka to dupe nationals with an exploitative debt trap. The international conference organised by the European human rights organisations in the presence of European Union officials on September 8, 2022 at Brussels ‘Press Club, rebuked…