10:00 AM NEWS WITH NAKABUYE SHEILAH POWERED BY @ORANGE: The East African Community today hosts the EAC-Africa Medicines Regulatory Harmonization Round Table Donors Conference at its headquarters in Arusha, Tanzania. President Museveni used the World Food Day yesterday during celebrations at the National Crop Resources Research Institute in Wakiso District to urge Ugandans to produce few children to solve the problem of food shortage in the country. The Kasese District chairperson, Lt Col Dura Mawa Muhindo, has blamed high poverty levels in the area on residents who fail to take up development opportunities. A government aided primary school in kibaale district has been temporarily closed following strange occurrences at the school premises said to be demonic attacks on pupils ranging from primary 4-7. HEALTH: A new report by the Food and Agriculture organization on United Nations (FAO) shows that 9.7 million people in Uganda are unable to eat the right food in the right quantities due to lack of sensitization and poor accessibility of food. BUSINESS: Presidents Uhuru Kenyatta of Kenya and Paul Kagame of Rwanda yesterday mooted for an integrated East Africa if the region is to achieve the required economic growth and development together with confronting emerging global epidemics such as the Ebola virus. ELSEWHERE: Ban Ki-moon has launched another urgent appeal for funds to help fight Ebola after a United Nations drive for donations fell short of its target.
Posted on: Fri, 17 Oct 2014 07:21:17 +0000
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