Tag: Families

Gold worth UGX.11 Trillion Exported Illegally from Uganda – Auditor General

In a report presented to Parliament in January 2025, the Auditor General of Uganda, Edward Akol, revealed that the country loses approximately UGX 11 trillion annually due to illegal gold exports. The auditor general’s report further uncovered...

Exposing the Shadow Economy: How Leaders Hide Their Stolen Billions

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A lesson was learnt in the year 1998 when then-former first lady of Nigeria, Mariam Abacha, was arrested with 38 suitcases stuffed with 100-dollar bills at Nigerian Airport trying to take it out of the country...

Politics

FDC Launches Policy against Sexual Harassment to Promote Inclusion

“Gender-Based Violence is not coming by itself. There is a root cause of it, and the first that we can clearly see and we have experienced in our families and communities is poverty.”

National News

Tayebwa Calls for Hefty Fight against Alcoholism to Combat...

Women are often married to men who are heavy drinkers and lose family plantations that generate income for essential needs, such as school fees for their children, at the cost of their drunk husbands.

National News

Women MPs Propose Six-Month Timeframe for Court Cases Involving...

The practice in Karamoja, where some families still demand 100 heads of cattle as the bride price, creates an avenue for the women to be treated like property in marriages.

Health

MPs Call for Action on Kamwenge’s Malnutrition Crisis after...

“Men in Kamwenge should allow their women to hold responsibility in their families; they should stop selling food out of their women's houses and should be sensitized,"

Crime