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Dr Kizza Besigye, the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) leader, is tomorrow scheduled to hold talks with a group of party legislators who are hostile to Nandala Mafabi, the Leader of Opposition in Parliament.

The minister for Justice and Constitutional Affairs, Major General Kahinda Otafiire, today said he could walk to work to protest the thin budget on which his ministry is running.

The Defence ministry is seeking an astronomical Shs 132bn supplementary budget, less than two months before the 2011/2012 financial year comes to an end.

Proposed law gives minister ‘excessive’ powers
25 districts stand to benefit from royalties

Kasese – Renewed fighting in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has put the lives of mountain gorillas in the Virunga massif at risk.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of the United States yesterday approved the worldwide use of a saliva test kit for HIV detection, just days after a panel recommended the use of Truvada in HIV prevention to the same body.

Josephat Faustin is part of a group of Rwandan herdsmen that had settled at Ttome in Kakuuto sub-county.

With one out of ten Ugandans surviving on one meal a day and 33 percent of children under five malnourished, Uganda is in danger of becoming a shadow of the country that was once regarded as a fat breadbasket of sub-Saharan Africa.

Retired Supreme Court Judge George Kanyeihamba will tomorrow be the guest speaker at the Noble Mayombo memorial lecture at Kampala’s Protea hotel.

The Uganda Red Cross Society (URCS), on May 8, marked the World Red Cross and Red Crescent Day in memory of the organisation’s founder, Henry Dunant.