A report on health services in Africa published by the International Finance Corporation reveals that the demand for health care is expected to double in the next five years, bringing numerous opportunities but also challenges on the continent that is already enveloped by a fair share of ills.

Years of neglect towards the health sector seen in most African countries have resulted into decay especially in the government-run hospitals.

Poor pay coupled with absence of equipment in rural areas and difficulties faced by private health

The International Criminal Court (ICC) which was officially established as a permanent tribunal on 11 March 2003 to prosecute individuals for genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and the crime of aggression has come under severe criticism by a man who calls himself an experts on international law and humanitarian law as a court of incompetent  judges.

Until now, the government of Uganda has been seen as taking a soft stance on the tobacco industry and tobacco smoking in general. But this may be about to change with the new stringent requirements regarding the display of anti-smoking warnings.

The Uganda National Bureau of Standards (UNBS) has informed importers, manufacturers to display a new more visible warning on cigarette packets that reads: "Cigarette smoking causes lung cancer, heart diseases and death."

UNBS has already published the warning in the government gazette and it is expected to be on the packets effective September 1, 2010.

It is only a few years since Makerere University introduced major changes in the way it teaches medical students but the development has caused serious concern among parents, former students and other stakeholders.

While at a recent function, Ambassador Alphonse Oseku, a senior citizen and a former Ugandan envoy to Geneva [Switzerland] expressed worry about what he called a 'time bomb' in reference to the recent changes in the way future doctors, nurses and pharmacists are being trained.

Ambassador Oseku particularly attacked what he called a shift from the traditional way of teaching where lecturers stand before students in a class every day to the now adopted system of encouraging students to