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Nairobi, Kenya | AFP |  Kenya Airways, already facing financial difficulties and a threatened pilots’ strike, cancelled five flights on Sunday after outsourced cabin crew walked off the job. While the stoppage only involved a small number of workers, it coincides with a deep malaise at the airline, which in …

VIDEO: Kabale University in Western Uganda has been closed following the ongoing strike by students over lack of lectures. University Vice Chancellor Professor Joy Kwesiga confirmed to NBS that the university will remain closed until further notice, saying that the strike puts the university at risk. Police meanwhile remains heavily deployed …

   The Minister of Education and Sports Janet Museveni has presented a statement before Parliament on the ongoing standoff between non-teaching staff at public universities and government, over failed payment of salary enhancement and arrears. The minister says government needs more time to harmonize the salary scale of the staff. …

By Sarah Namulondo Mulago hospital intern doctors and nurses have gone on strike over delayed salary payment for last month of November. Patients have been seated at the hospitals casualty in a bid to lure the doctors and nurses into giving up on the strike and look into treating them …

By Stephen Kafeero Should government fear nurses, police, army? When Maj. Jessica Alupo, who is the minister of Education and Sports, famously failed to say which team the Uganda football team faced when it travelled the Moroccan city of Marrakesh as part of its 2014 Football World Cup qualification campaign, …

By Julius Odeke Prof John Ddumba-Ssentamu has clarified on the policy Makerere University adopted that has led to students striking. In a press report that was released a day after the students strike, it says a section of the University students demonstrated on Feb. 11 over the implementation of the …

By Dr. Robert K. Rutaagi The greatest paradox is that 20 years after privatisation, the traders want the government’s assistance in businesses The popular cliché that ‘man is a political animal’ can manifest in various versions and situations. One such is that ‘man is a rebellious animal’. For example in …

By The Independent Reporters Workers of the Tanzania Railways Ltd (TRL) went on a go-slow in Dar es Salaam and upcountry stations last week to protest delays in payment of their salaries, leaving hundreds of upcountry passengers stranded. The go-slow was apparently aimed at pressing the management to pay their …