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📸: Procession walks through Simasi in Oli, Central Division Arua City. Photo by Information is Power Story by Osuta Yusuf . Arua City . The residents of Arua, in preparations to welcome President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni in WestNile region for Ezama Ham Mizamil Thanksgiving Ceremony, marched in a procession of over 1000 people in Arua City on Thursday 23-5-2024. The Thanksgiving ceremony whose main objective is to thank President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni for the appointments, developments and services rendered in WestNile region, will take place on 8-June-2024 in Arua City. 📸: Draku Aziz, Coordinator for the event. Coordinator for the event, Draku Aziz assured the public that, they are ready and prepared to make sure the ceremony succeeds. He said, so many groups and associations from different districts have confirmed their attendance for the forthcoming event of 8-June-2024. Aziz thanked the various departments in government for positive collaboration and coordination regarding the

  #iip_updates  What you need to know: Age-old vice. As the country grapples with increasing cases of corruption, where billions of shillings have been lost to mainly government the Sunday Monitor brings some of the most high-ranking cases of corruption since President Museveni took control of the country in 1986. Recent scandals at the Office of the Prime Minister and Public Service have put the ruling party in the spotlight, even with President Museveni advocating for zero-tolerance to corruption. Suspects are still under investigation, with a single convict yet to be sentenced. However, the individuals under investigation are still innocent until proven guilty. But this does not erase the fact that billions of money were siphoned to private accounts. But before we delve into the first cases of corruption investigate under the NRM government, it is import to note that the same vice in Uganda is as old as the country. Also Read In 1900, the British Commissioner to Uganda, Sir Harry Jo

With hardly an hour left before the Uganda Human Rights Commission unveils it's 26th Annual Report on the state of human rights & freedoms in Uganda for 2023, let us dive into the 2022 report findings. In the 2022 annual report, the Commission revealed that the prolonged dry spell that ravaged Karamoja sub-region killed over 2200 people in the districts of; Kotido, Moroto, Kaabong and Napak. “Insecurity and intensified livestock raids and theft intensified in April 2022, leading to loss of lives and isolated incidents of death among the population. The fragility of the situation not only limited households from accessing their farms for fear of being killed but also continued to deny them to access income for food purchase and safe grazing area for their herds,” read in part the 2022 human rights report.

📸: MSC Officials appearing before PAC MPs on 21-5-2024. The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has summoned the Board members of Microfinance Support Centre to explain why the entity has operated for over 20years without a risk management framework on Expected Credit Losses, despite the entity operating seed capital projects worth Shs249Bn and managing over Shs72Bn savings in Emyooga funds. The summons followed findings in the December 2023 Auditor General’s report that indicated that Microfinance Support Centre doesn’t have in any documents Risk Management Strategies that would guide the operations of the institution, with many MPs wondering if the current Board members are even aware of their roles at the institution. "The big question is that this Board and all the Boards that have been there before, comfortably presided over an institution supervised by the Ministry of Finance without the basic framework that would guide this institution, surely for 20years. A draft can’t be in

📸: MSC Officials appearing before PAC MPs on 21-5-2024. The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has summoned the Board members of Microfinance Support Centre to explain why the entity has operated for over 20years without a risk management framework on Expected Credit Losses, despite the entity operating seed capital projects worth Shs249Bn and managing over Shs72Bn savings in Emyooga funds. The summons followed findings in the December 2023 Auditor General’s report that indicated that Microfinance Support Centre doesn’t have in any documents Risk Management Strategies that would guide the operations of the institution, with many MPs wondering if the current Board members are even aware of their roles at the institution. "The big question is that this Board and all the Boards that have been there before, comfortably presided over an institution supervised by the Ministry of Finance without the basic framework that would guide this institution, surely for 20years. A draft can’t be in