Watching the world cup on African soil for the first time and may be the only and last time for most of us who have been following and enjoying the beautiful game, has really been exciting when you look how African’s could rally behind their fellow African teams, the unite amongst them as they blow the vuvuzelas’ this we shall really miss since we have seen our last hope drop out in a very unfair manner

With the theme “Maternal infant and child health and the development of Africa” the forth coming 15th African Union (AU) summit scheduled for 25th to 27th July in Kampala Uganda is meant to find solutions to reduce on the high maternal deaths in Africa. Uganda has been chosen as the host for the 15th African Union summit because of her effort and contribution towards the fight for peace and stability on the continent.

Locally known as Omolomol in luo language, the disease is rampant in many parts of the world, including Uganda.It affects cattle, goats, sheep and other hoofed animals. It is highly contagious, but rarely affects human beings. Symptoms include high fever, blisters inside an animal’s mouth, excessive saliva secretion and ruptures and blisters on the hooves. The animal also drools instead of eating.

Technological innovation is taking place at a breath-taking pace. Simple, open source internet-based applications and services designed to enhance on-line collaboration are now available to the wider public at little or no cost at all. These new online services known as Web 2.0 applications have enabled people, especially citizen Journalists to collaborate remotely in creating, sharing, networking, lobbying and publishing information about the FIFA 2010 worldcup .

The recently concluded e-Learning Africa 2010 Photo Competition saw two Ugandan citizen Journalist featuring among the top ten finalist taking up the 4th and 6th position. The photo competition aimed at finding out "How ICTs Are Changing the Way We Live". To know what this has meant for the African continent and to learn more about how digital media have changed the lives ...

It looks like its a routine in Northern Uganda,for farmers to burn forests ruthlessly...............

ICT is emerging as an important medium for communication and exchange as well as a tool for development, including at the local and community levels. However, this potential is yet to be effectively leveraged.

Accidents have become a menace to road users in Uganda. A recent one took place near Mukono on the Kampala-Jinja highway. A heavy lorry collided with and rolled over eight small vehicles. In another incident last week in Magama on the Jinja-Iganga highway a bus from Nairobi collided head-on with a taxi, killing some passengers in the bus, everybody in the taxi.

With the exception of the outgrowers section and the administration sections, the other working sections of the Mayuge Sugar Industries, a sugar producing factory based in Mayuge district of Uganda, have downed tools -- not even entering the factory gate. This has led to shutdown and production is not in place -- the reason being that the wage paid to them is very little.

The Kasubi tombs -- commonly known as a “Masiro” -- are situated five kilometers away from Kampala City Centre on Kasubi Hill, on the Kampala/ Hoima Road. The place is a burial ground for Buganda Royal Kings and a cultural heritage centre. The Kasubi Tombs entrance site was inscribed on the UNESCO world heritage list in 2001.

Children are now in the middle of the term since they commenced studies on February 1st 2010. But the question is; what have they done since they went to school and what have the teachers done both in private and Government schools to achieve the intended goal of students and the schools in general?

Traditionally, both men and women, or boys and girls for that matter, fetch water. If we are to ask ourselves, is gender sensitivity about the head carrying vs hand carrying or pot vs jerry can?
A few weeks a ago, I was visiting my rural village and came across a young boy and girl coming from a well. The boy was carrying his 5 litre jerry can in his hands...

Anti-gay Pastor Martin Ssempa will be spearheading a million-man march on 17 February, in support of the proposed Anti Homosexuality Bill -- an event he says will give Ugandans a chance to show how they feel about homosexuality. Ssempa maintains that homosexuality is illegal, breaks the laws of God and that it breaks the laws of nature which stipulate that a male goes with a female.

Women of Uganda Network with support from the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation ACP–EU (CTA), holds a bi-annual event called the Lango Forum on e-agriculture. This event is held twice times in a year in Apac District, Northern Uganda. This year the third Lango forum on e–agriculture will be held on the 18th February 2010.