RWANDA: New HIV/Aids Campaign Targets Varsity Students
The Ministry of Health has launched a one week sensitisation drive targeting the youth, especially students at the National University of Rwanda (NUR).
 
According to Anita Ahayo, an official from the Rwanda Biomedical Centre (RBC), the new exercise is set to increase awareness among the youth, especially students, on ways to protect themselves against the pandemic.
Activities to be carried out across the week include male circumcision, sensitisation gatherings, sport activities, and Voluntary Testing and Counselling (VTC).
 
KENYA: TNA-allied MPs urge Annan to meet Uhuru
MPs allied to The National Alliance Party want a meeting between their party leader Uhuru Kenyatta, and the chairman of the African Union Panel of Eminent Persons Mr Kofi Annan.
 
Addressing a news conference in Parliament buildings, the MPs said that Mr Annan, who is in the country to review its readiness for the next general elections, had so far met “the ODM side and the civil society”.
 
UGANDA: Two die in Bulange security house fire
Two people have died and two seriously injured in a fire that gutted a security office at Bulange House, Wednesday morning.
 
Bulange houses the Kabaka’s office, offices of Buganda ministers and departmental heads, CBS radio, Bucadef, Buganda Land Board, the kingdom’s treasury (enkuluze) among other offices.
 
The mysterious fire, according to eye witnesses, started at about 9:20 am (EAT), a few minutes after security officials who man the main entrance at Bulange House, allegedly stopped a shabbily dressed and dirty woman from accessing the headquarters of Buganda Kingdom.
 
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