According to Dr Richard Irumba, deputy director at NCDC and chairperson of the conference organising team, the response to the conference has been encouraging, with participants expected from more than 20 countries.
“We are being taxed a lot of money on the educational material we import from China. The material that is being used for specifically hands on teaching practices for our students and nothing more,” Wang said, adding that, as an institute, some of the material can only be obtained from their country at a lower price.
Modi said the initiative was aimed at easing the financial burden on millions of families caught up in the country's fiercely competitive education system.
“You are not only students, but also potential bridges and new bonds between our two countries,” Wu said.
The students, who make up the centre’s eighth cohort, will receive training in four vocational areas: bakery, weaving, knitting and shoemaking.
A 29-year-old student in the capital Kabul said a staffer had "visited the classrooms and announced that from now onwards, we are not allowed to bring smartphones to the university".
The directive follows a monitoring visit by the Resident District Commissioner’s Secretariat in the Office of the President, which found six teachers using classrooms as accommodation.
Among the initiatives associated with Vision Group's development journalism is the Green Schools Project, which Wanyama said is aimed at promoting environmental awareness and practical conservation among schools and young people.
On Friday (August 7), the school held a memorial mass for the souls of the 22 pupils and the school director, Tadeo Ssekadde, who perished in a bus accident in Kapchorwa on the evening of July 16.
But perhaps the country’s most important infrastructure will never appear in a national budget or on a construction site. It will be found in the character of the young women and men who inherit everything else.
Cianna Rukundo Namakula, a student at École secondaire Étienne-Brûlé, a French-language secondary school in Toronto, Ontario, emerged as the 2026 national champion of the Poetry in Voice/Les Voix de la Poésie competition after excelling in the bilingual category, where participants recite poetry in both English and French.
The school currently operates with only 13 classrooms, 18 VIP latrine stances and 28 teachers on the government payroll, which administrators say are no longer adequate to serve the growing student population.
“If children are not safe, schools have no business, parents lose their loved kids, and the government loses valuable future citizens; therefore, road safety is a collective responsibility of all."
Ariokot's own daughter accused her of taking part in the killing of Apio, making her a prime suspect in the murder case, according to police. Prosecution alleges that on February 5, 2025, at Jozan Nursery and Primary School in Soroti City East Division, the accused persons, with malice aforethought, unlawfully caused the death of the five-year-old girl.
Dr. Rubanza, who was testifying as the seventh prosecution witness in the ongoing murder trial, told court that in addition to the missing swallowing muscles, the trachea (windpipe), which carries air to the lungs, and the oesophagus, which transports food to the stomach, had also been severed.
“I became thin, pale and developed ulcers,” Bint-Juma says. Many other university students have harrowing tales of hunger. Antonette Nambi, a final-year student of education at Makerere University, says hunger has left her stressed, dizzy and frequently suffering from headaches. She says the constant hunger affects her concentration in class. “It makes it difficult to engage meaningfully with lecturers when you are hungry. This also puts us at risk of poor academic performance,” Nambi says.
Speaking after inspecting the damage, headteacher Patrick Abiara said the school was fortunate that no learners or teachers were injured during the incident.
“We visited the school on Friday, met the teachers and directors of the school. We discussed with them the strengths and gaps that needed to be fulfilled before the school can officially reopen,” said Lwanga.
“We are going to engage schools, churches and other religious institutions. We shall also bring on board commercial banks, insurance companies, fintechs and mobile money institutions so that everyone participates in building a stronger economy.”
"The sponsorship programme supports families before children are forced onto the streets," says Matende, who also serves as a pastor at the ministry. "Our transitional programme focuses on children who are already living on the streets because their families have broken down."