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Christine Ampeire, a second-year student of Software Engineering at Makerere University, was yesterday beaming with delight after her mobile app, Mafuta GO was announced winner of the AppCircus competition at Protea Hotel in Kampala. The decision was reached by a panel of 6 members of the jury, composed of Veronica Ssempebwa, Evelyn Namara, Annie Njenga, Ali Ndiwalana, Gerald Begumisa and Boaz Shani, after each of the ten shortlisted developers had presented their creations to the over 200 delegates at the Mobile Monday Kampala event.
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Friday 2nd December wil mark the revival of the Makere Africa Lecture Series by the Gender Mainstreaming Directorate (GMD). The title of the lecture is: How far East African Women have come in Education, Leadership and Decision-Making in 50 Years of Independence. Leading the lecture will be Hon. Professor Peter Anyang Nyongo, MP and Minister of Medical Services of the Republic of Kenya, with Dr. Thelma Awori, Honary Consul General of Liberia in Uganda and Guest of Honour Prof. Apolo Nsimbambi. The lecture will be held from 3pm at the Makere Main Hall.
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The International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women and the ensuing 16 Days of Activism against Gender Violence are commemorated every year around the world to raise awareness and trigger action on this pervasive human rights violation. This year, UN Women Executive Director Michelle Bachelet unveiled a 16 Step Policy Agenda to address the issue.
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KAMPALA, Nov 21 (IPS) - Life in Bwaise, a slum on the outskirts of the capital of Uganda has never been easy. But increasingly erratic rains over the last three years have brought constant floods to the former swampland. Residents who can afford to are moving out, leaving the poorest often single mothers and grandmothers behind.The gardens around Regina Bayiyana's home in Bwaise keep washing away. Her husband and all five of her children died after long illnesses, leaving her to raise 15 grandchildren on her own in her one-bedroom house. The crops she grew in the gardens - bananas, sweet potatoes and yams - were her main source of both food and income.
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The six-member state Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD) is moving to recognise and position women as drivers of development in the region. This recognition of women as vital to regional development follows the realisation that the informal sector has been the supporting base of economies in the member states, and women dominate and drive the informal sector. Business women from the six-country regional group - Uganda, Kenya, Dijbouti, Ethiopia, Sudan and Somalia - have been meeting in Kampala to provide views of their challenges in business. IGAD will use their views to draw a regional action plan to mitigate problems faced by women especially in the informal sector.
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