10AM NEWS POWERED BY @orange: At least one person has been confirmed dead in fresh ethnic fighting between the Neur and Shilluk at the Malakal United Nations base sheltering internally displaced persons. The government owes electricity distribution company Umeme Shs116.170b in unpaid electricity bills. Opposition groups have said,time is running out for enactment of meaningful elections reforms ahead of the 2016 election.This was during a two-day consultative meeting for Buganda sub-region in Masaka. A total of 33 bus drivers have been banned from driving any passenger service vehicle for life, after a series of hearings at the Transport Licensing Board determined that they were unfit and cannot continue to be entrusted with human life. The United States has advised Ugandans to be assertive while demanding their voices to be heard in order to influence policy and governance priorities. A new report by the International center for traditional justice indicates that women in northern Uganda continue to suffer the effects of the hostilities caused by the 20 yearconflict between the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) and the Government of Uganda. BUSINESS: The European Investment Bank has signed a Shs45 billion credit facility with Housing Finance Bank, targeting local entrepreneurs in agriculture, tourism, education and manufacturing. About Shs170 billion has been put aside to absorb shocks that could eat into members’ savings, the acting managing director of National Social Security Fund (NSSF), Ms Geraldine Busuulwa Ssali, has disclosed. ELSEWHERE: Zambian leader, Michael Chilufya Sata, 77, has passed on. The country’s fifth leader passed away Tuesday night in London where he had been admitted for treatment. Seven people including one child have been trampled to death by rampaging elephants that strayed from the southern Liwonde National Park into a nearby village.
Posted on: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 07:14:17 +0000
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