KWANIA, August 7, 2026 — Fishermen in Kwania district have been urged to surrender beach seines, locally known as kokota in the Lango language, to protect fish species, improve the quality of fish in Lake Kwania and promote sustainable fishing practices. The call was made during a recent engagement with the elected committee tasked with …
KAMPALA, August 7, 2026 –The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention [Africa CDC] and the World Health Organization [WHO] have called for an urgent scale-up of the community-led Ebola response in the Democratic Republic of the Congo [DRC], with stronger early detection, contact follow up, access to care, support for frontline health workers and …
KAMPALA, August 7, 2026 — The Minister of Finance, Planning and Economic Development, Henry Musasizi, together with the State Minister for Planning, Amos Lugoloobi, and the Minister of State for General Duties, Cissy Mulondo, has urged the Uganda Bureau of Statistics [UBOS] to strengthen the production of evidence-based statistics to support national planning, budgeting, policy …
BRUSSELS, August 7, 2026 — The International Cooperative Alliance [ICA], through its Financial Framework Partnership with the EU, will convene the hybrid Workshop, “Framing the Principles of International Cooperative Law,” on August 22-23, 2026 at Juraj Dobrila University in Pula, Croatia. Open to online participants, the one-and-a-half-day workshop will form part of a wider sequence …
BRUSSELS, August 6, 2026 — The 2026 ICA General Assembly on September 15, in Panama will include elections for the ICA President and At-Large Directors for the Global Board. This year, there are 25 candidates standing for 15 At-Large Director seats, who are nominated and elected by ICA members. There are 30 seats on the …
MBARARA CITY, August 6, 2026 — The Minister for Local Government, Balaam Barugahara, has ordered the immediate arrest and interdiction of 12 senior Mbarara City officials over allegations of corruption, abuse of office and gross financial mismanagement that reportedly resulted in the loss of more than Shs 3 billion in public funds. The directive was …
