Muniini K. Mulera

Uganda

Uganda's Tobacco Control Act and the Shisha Craze

By Talibita MosesUganda Uganda Health MattersMarch 13, 20171 comments

It is 10 months since the tobacco Control Act entered into force on the 19th of May 2016. This law among others, banned Shisha, electronic cigarettes and related accessories including flavoured tobacco. It bans the advertising, promotion and sponsorships of tobacco and its products. ...

New Ugandan Districts: Leadership Matters

By Muniini K. MuleraUganda Uganda PoliticsMarch 14, 20170 comments

Hopeful: A young boy from Mparo, Rwamucuucu, Rukiga I wish to speak directly to the people of Rukiga, Bunyangabu, Kyotera, Namisindwa, Butebo and Pakwach, whose counties will metamorphose into districts on July 1 this year. Whether or not your new district ...

Uganda: beautifully gifted by nature

By SCOVIA KYARISIIMAUganda Uganda TourismFebruary 28, 20170 comments

Uganda is the most beautiful tourism destination on this planet. I have seen it. I know it. But you don't have to take my word. Come and visit. For example, here is a tour that will give you a taste of Uganda. First we go to Kigezi in the southwest. Climb to the ...

Tourism is everybody's business

By SCOVIA KYARISIIMAUganda Uganda TourismFebruary 28, 20170 comments

17th to 19th February was Pearl of Africa tourism expo at Sheraton hotel under the them TOURISM IS EVERY BODY'S BUSINES . It was So amazing. Chocolate made in Uganda, tour operators from Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Kenya, Rwanda, South Africa, Uganda, etc.. Hotels like Sheraton hotel, Serena ...

Memories of Budo and the Ian and Dorothy Robinson Chapel

By Muniini K. MuleraUgandaJanuary 31, 20170 comments

Ian and Dorothy Robinson Chapel, King's College, Budo (April 1996) Exactly fifty years ago today, I entered King’s College, Budo, to begin a secondary school education that would become the defining experience of my life. After a daylong Kabale-Kampala bus ride, followed by ...

An afternoon at Budo in 1996

By Muniini K. MuleraUgandaJanuary 31, 20170 comments

Wednesday, April 24, 1996 By Muniini K. Mulera Big School (April 1996) Today is Wednesday, April 24, 1996 and I am visiting King’s College Budo on this lovely sunny afternoon. I am most pleased to meet Dennis Mutabazi, son of an old friend, Arthur ...

The Gift of New Beginnings - By Dr. Jane Nannono Kavuma

By Muniini K. MuleraUganda Uganda GeneralJanuary 2, 20170 comments

Many times in my life I have been incredibly thankful for the opportunity that each new sunrise and new year gives me to start afresh. With the benefit of hindsight; I plan to do better than I did yesterday or last year having learned and grown from my past mistakes. Through last ...

A Season for Giving - by Dr. Jane Nannono Kavuma

By Muniini K. MuleraUganda Uganda GeneralDecember 21, 20160 comments

The end-of–the–year festive season is fast approaching and before we know it, we shall be singing Christmas carols, attending church services, feasting and exchanging gifts with loved ones. I only hope that the true meaning of Christmas to any Believer will not be lost ...

Herbert "Kabwondera" Bakesigaki: master of Enanga (African zither)

By Muniini K. MuleraUgandaDecember 14, 20160 comments

We remember you Herbert "Kabwondera" Bakesigaki. We celebrate your talent, your sound, your poetry, your contribution to the preservation of musical tradition of the Bakiga. Though you died young, you left a great legacy. We thank you for making the ICOB conventions you attended ...

When Ignorance Is Bliss - by Dr. Jane Nannono Kavuma

By Muniini K. MuleraUgandaNovember 26, 20160 comments

I know if you are now reading this you must be disagreeing with. Take heart, we are both on the same side: ignorance is not bliss. But for some flitting moments when life throws you the unexpected in your path, not knowing what is likely to happen and when it can happen can be bliss. ...

Ugandan citizen disease awareness and vigilance

By Talibita MosesUganda Uganda Health MattersOctober 25, 20160 comments

The president of Uganda launched a door-to-door disease prevention project in Sheema District, reported in the Daily Monitor of 28th of August, 2015, whose packaging included an Integrated Community Case Management (ICCM) and a Constituency Health Task Force, to bring quality ...

On the eve of Uganda's Independence Anniversary

By Bbuye Lya MukangaUganda Uganda PoliticsOctober 10, 20160 comments

Yes, it is the Eve of Uganda's 54th "Independence" anniversary. Coincidentally, I am in Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar, and I feel so glad that I am not in Uganda. If I was in Uganda, I am afraid that I would never have been able to celebrate "Independence" day in the way that ...

Stopping Hospital equipment theft is a citizen duty for Ugandans

By Talibita MosesUganda Uganda Health MattersJuly 12, 20160 comments

Prosecutions are initiated against government abuse of government property; hospital equipment thieves not isolated; we hear little of prosecution success. It is worthy my while that I interrogate why hospital property thieves go Scot-free? Have you ever heard ...

Isn’t Uganda hurting from health sector underfunding?

By Talibita MosesUganda Uganda Health MattersMay 9, 20161 comments

While before Uganda’s Parliamentary Health Committee, Dr Diana Atwine, head of medicines and health service delivery monitoring unit, explained Uganda’s state of public hospitals, maintaining that 60 % of health centres IVs are not functional, and the referral system at ...

What I Learned from My Parents, Elders and Peers about the Gift of Community: Part Two – Vulnerability and Belonging

By Bbuye Lya MukangaUganda Uganda PoliticsMay 16, 20160 comments

What I Learned from My Parents, Elders and Peers about the Gift of Community Two – Vulnerability and Belonging My previous blog contains the 1960s story of Mwami Semei of Kiwafu Village, Entebbe, Uganda, and how Mwaami Semei stumbled into belonging and community only ...

Uganda’s Tobacco Control Act comes into force on 19th of May 2016

By Talibita MosesUganda Uganda Health MattersMay 11, 20162 comments

This 19th of May 2016 is the day the Tobacco Control Act No. 22 enters into force. The same was passed by Parliament on the 28th of July 2015, assented to by the president on the 19th of September 2015 and gazetted in the Uganda Gazette No 67 Volume CVIII dated 18th November 2015. ...

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