High school dropout worries women activists

Gayaza High School girls in class

The high dropout rate among primary school going girls needs urgent intervention, women activist have demanded.

The activists are also concerned about the soaring numbers of women who die daily in pregnancy-related complications in the country.

The activists raised the concerns in a meeting held in Kampala.

Recent government reports on education

estimate that of the total number of pupils who enroll in primary one, only 30% complete primary seven, placing Uganda’s dropout rates the worst in the region.

However, Dr. Hilda Tadria, the director of Mentoring and Empowering Program for Young Women said:  “These figures

Uganda Has Lost HIV/Aids Fight – UN

Mr Musa Bungudu UNAIDS Country Coordinator

A top UNAIDS official in Uganda has said the country is losing the fight against HIV/Aids, with the infection rates steadily rising.

 

Musa Bungudu, the UNAIDS Country Director, says Uganda is the only country in the Eastern and Southern Africa with rising HIV/AIDS infection rates. Up to 145,000 new infections are recorded each year.

 

According to the 2011 National HIV Indicator

8-year-old defiled, murdered during night prayers

Muyama collapsed on seeing her daughters body.

Tragedy befell Pastor Wilson Bugembe’s church when an 8-year old girl was defiled and brutally murdered during night prayers.

Desire Nakalanzi’s body, whose private parts were raptured, was discovered hidden behind Bugembe’s Light The World church in Kibulooka, a Nansana suburb notorious for crime, on Wednesday.

At the crime scene were the girl’s panties that had been ripped off her and a wallet that police suspect could belong to one of the suspects.

The girl’s mother, Christine Muyama of Gganda in Wakiso, had gone with her daughter for Tuesday night prayers as was her custom. At about 2:30am  her daughter told her she wanted to ease herself, and went out to the bathrooms.

An hour later Muyama noticed

He earns Shs120m from fish a year

Mitusera Bainomugisha feeds fish in one of the ponds. Below: He supervises workers during harvests.

In Summary

He has been involved in commercial fish farming for more than three decades. He tells Otushabire Tibyangye how he started, what he has learned along the way and the challenges.

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I am Mitusera Bainomugisha from Iryango village in Kabuyanda Sub county in Isingiro District. I started fish farming in 1983 with three ponds after realising that that there was scarcity of fish in the area. So, I bought tilapia fingerings from Kajjansi fish centre in Kampala.
My intention was to have

Pregnant woman loses baby after being denied ambulance

Ms Florence Candiru is carried onto a truck with goats and goods at Olujobo Health Centre.

In Summary

Ms Florence Candiru, who had been admitted to Olujobo Health Centre III, was reportedly referred to Arua Regional Referral Hospital by health workers at the facility.

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An expectant mother lost her child at the weekend after she was transported on a lorry carrying goats and goods following the alleged refusal of Olujobo Health Centre III workers to grant her an ambulance.

Ms Florence Candiru, who had been admitted to Olujobo Health Centre III, was reportedly referred to Arua Regional Referral Hospital by health workers at the facility.

However, when she sought

New religion discourages use of cellphones

Over 1,300 children have failed to enroll for universal primary education in Mayuge district because of a religious sect that discourages followers from attending school.

The resident district commissioner (RDC) Margaret Mbeiza, disclosed that security is hunting for the leaders of the sect for frustrating Government programmes. The sect said to be originating

400 Children Flee Homes For Fear Of FGM

Some of the girls who have fled their homes for fear of FGM talk to relatives at Kalas Girls school fence

A total of 400 school going-age children in Amudat District have fled their homes in the last 10 months for fear of being subjected to female genital mutilation (FGM).

The children aged between three and 12 years, have abandoned cattle keeping and enrolled in schools.

Most of the children are now admitted in Kalas boys and girls Primary Schools respectively in Amudat Town Council.  A few are receiving their education at Katabok Primary school among others.

Lotai Chepkiror, now in