VIDEO: Doctors threaten to strike, demand for 48 million Kampala, Uganda | NTV UGANDA | Medical workers have threatened to take industrial action if the government does not work towards finding solutions to their grievances. The medical workers who yesterday gathered at Mulago hospital for their annual general meeting, are demanding …
Read More »THIS WEEK: Judiciary suspends strike again, give another ultimatum
THIS WEEK: Judiciary suspends strike again, give another ultimatum Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Following several meetings, the judicial officials who had for weeks laid down their tools over salary enhancements and allowances agreed to go back to work but promised this was only for three months. Speaking to journalists …
Read More »VIDEO: Judicial officers told to wait a bit longer for pay rise
VIDEO: Judicial officers told to wait a bit longer for pay rise Kampala, Uganda | NTV UGANDA | Judicial officers who have been on strike for over a week now over poor pay may have to wait a little longer for their demands to be met. Minister of Justice and Constitutional …
Read More »VIDEO: MPs Strike over Tirinyi Road, Blocked by Police
VIDEO: MPs Strike over Tirinyi Road, Blocked by Police Kampala, Uganda | NBS | Police this morning arrested members of Parliaments for Budaka, Bududa and Kumi as they mobilized residents to demonstrate over the state of Tirinyi road Police rounded up the MPs together with their supporters at Napowa bridge in …
Read More »Uganda Judicial Officers strike into day three, Kabafunzaki case delayed
Kampala, Uganda | GODFREY SSALI | The Judicial Officers strike entered day two as accused persons who are on bail turned up in court Monday, but the clerks in the registry infomed them that they did not have any instrutions to extend their bail, leaving them with an option of not …
Read More »Judicial officers’ strike starts
Kampala, Uganda | GODFREY SSALI | The on-going judges’ and magistrate’s strike has already started affecting litigants as one of the bride to be will miss her wedding tomorrow because the presiding magistrate Peter Fred Lochomin has not convened court today to deliver her bail application ruling. The unidentified female suspect …
Read More »VIDEO: Kyambogo University Staff Call Off Strike
VIDEO: Kyambogo University Staff Call Off Strike Kampala, Uganda | NBS UGANDA | Kyambogo University non-teaching have called off their 21 day long strike after the ministry of public service accepted to enhance their salaries as they demanded. During an extra ordinary meeting convened at the University, the Kyambogo University non …
Read More »Guinea-Bissau parents coax truant teachers back to school
Canchungo, Guinea-Bissau | AFP | The school year is ending in the west African nation of Guinea-Bissau, but some pupils will hardly notice the difference. Long-running pay disputes have kept teachers out of the classrooms for long stretches of the last four decades in this former Portuguese colony, where a …
Read More »South Sudan president Kiir axes striking judges
Juba, South Sudan | AFP | South Sudan’s government sacked a dozen judges who had been on strike for the past two months, the country’s information minister told AFP on Thursday. “The president yesterday issued an order relieving some of the judges,” Michael Makuei said, without explaining the reasons for …
Read More »US forces conduct strike against Somalia’s Al-Shabaab
Washington, United States | AFP | US forces carried out a strike in conjunction with Somali special forces Sunday against Al-Shabaab approximately 185 miles (300 kilometers) southwest of Mogadishu, according to the Pentagon. The Pentagon said the operation occurred at approximately 0600 GMT “in coordination with regional partners as a …
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