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Download logo The six winning projects for the first Africa World Heritage Day (AWHD) Youth Competition for Eastern Africa were successfully completed in December 2021. Organized in collaboration with UNESCO National Commissions in the beneficiary countries (Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda), the youth-led projects took different approaches to raising awareness of the importance of World […]
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Namboowa overcomes society bias to take Butambala LC5 seat
Friday May 21 2021
Summary
Politics is a rough, dicey and turbulent game. In Uganda, the caps imposed by patriarchy render a woman’s election for a direct competitive seat a tall order. Many survive on affirmative slots. In this fourth instalment of our new series, Women Breaking Barriers, Butambala District chairperson-elect Rashiida Namboowa, 37, tells Daily Monitor Reporter
Irene Abalo Otto that women must be go-getters to succeed.
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In many parts of central Uganda, candidates subscribing to the National Unity Platform (NUP) party won their seats in the January elections.
Despite having formed only a few months earlier, the Opposition party headed by Robert Kyagulanyi, aka Bobi Wine, was heavily supported by most voters in the region, and its flag bearers at all positions easily swept to victory in what later came to be known as the NUP/People Power wave.