UGANDA: Government to deregister 900 private
schools
At least 867 private secondary schools are likely to
have their licenses withdrawn after they missed last year’s census, Education
ministry officials said yesterday.
An undisclosed number of government-owned secondary
schools, as well as public and private primary schools could also be affected
by the move, which would force them to shut down, leaving hundreds of thousands
of students stranded.
RWANDA: Kagame Urges African Unity, Integration
President Paul Kagame has called on the African
leaders and citizens to work towards continental unity and integration.The President was this evening officiating at the
opening of an East African Legislative Assembly (EALA) session at the
Parliamentary Building in Kigali.
KENYA: DPP team to probe IEBC
The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) on
Wednesday formed a team to assist investigate the failure of the Electronic
Voter Identification (EVID) and Results Transmission System (RTS) in the March
4 elections.
On Tuesday, the Supreme Court released their
presidential petition judgment in which they recommended that technologies used
by the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) to collect and
transmit the election results be investigated.
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“Instead of criticizing them, we should actually be
praising them for a job well done so far,” said Prime Minister Mizengo Pinda,
accusing Chadema’s Chairman Freeman Mbowe who is the leader of the Official
Opposition in Parliament of ‘mixing issues’ and shuddering ahead of the 2015
general elections. 17th April 2013 Daily News
“We have deployed experts in those areas to study
the situation and furnish us with reports for more actions. We hope by the end
of this week we will be in the full picture of what to do to contain the
situation,” The Minister for Livestock Development and Fisheries David Mathayo,
17th April 2013 Daily News
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