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July 14, 2021 Written by OUR READERS
The government has disclosed intentions of installing tracking devices in all vehicles, ostensibly to prevent violent crimes.
Parliament should conduct benchmarking and avail Ugandans with a list of all democratic countries that successfully prevented violent crimes by this regulation. Surveillance in foreign countries is restricted to convicts such as pedophiles and terrorists.
This regulation makes it easier for rogue state operatives to abduct people for ransom since the president once disclosed that police have ‘weevils’. This move is an insult to our constitutional right to privacy under Article 27.
It also violates a biblical right to privacy provided as the tenth commandment of Moses (Exodus 20:17). Why di
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We need to build a resilient food and nutrition system
June 23, 2021 A fruits vendor attending to a client recently
Globally, countries, including Uganda, are in high gear organising several activities building up to the United Nations Food Systems Summit 2021 (UNFSS), which will be convened by the United Nations Secretary General António Guterres as part of the UN Decade of Action to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (17 SDGs) by 2030.
Preceded by a gathering in Italy in July 2021, the culminating summit will take place in New York, in September 2021 in conjunction with the United Nations General Assembly under the theme: “Transforming food systems is crucial for delivering all the Sustainable Development Goals.”
Daily Monitor
Thursday February 04 2021
When Covid-19 caused closure of schools globally, including in Uganda last year, many school-going children had to miss out on school meals that they had relied upon for essential nutrition. The director of the school meals division at the World Food Programm, Carmen Burbano, referred to this mass closure as “probably the largest catastrophe in the education systems of our lifetime,” without the certainty of ever returning to the classroom. Nearly 1.6 billion children were put out of school unexpectedly.
Today, as many schools remain largely closed 11 months into the Covid-19 pandemic, school feeding programmes are not definite as the economy has been affected. Millions of households are suffering job and livelihood losses; reduced food production and distribution; as well as inadequate or lack of social safety nets, including school feeding programmes.