Tag Archives: By Mubatsi Asinja Habati

By Mubatsi Asinja Habati In February 2009, Maj. Gen. Mugisha Muntu attempted to unseat the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) President Kizza Besigye during the party’s Delegates Conference at Namboole Stadium in Kampala. He failed. On Jan. 21 he launched his campaign to woo FDC members to vote him instead …

By Mubatsi Asinja Habati Inside NEC Dokolo MP Okot Ogong had 100 percent no chance of defeating President Yoweri Museveni in a democratic contest for the National Resistance Movement (NRM) party presidential candidate in the 2011 election. So why was his motion to stay the endorsement of President Museveni as …

By Mubatsi Asinja Habati Every delegate at this year’s 5th National Executive Council (NEC) meeting at State House on January 12 must have been aware of the rifts threatening to tear the ruling National Resistance Movement apart. Talk of factions had been in the news all week before. There are …

By Mubatsi Asinja Habati Police point at cycle of accidents peaking between July and New Year On October 26 presidential advisor on Religious Affairs Albert Byaruhanga died when his car knocked two pedestrians at Kyanda on Mubende Mityana road leaving one dead. In the same week, on October 21 two …

By Mubatsi Asinja Habati In the 2006 election FDC’s Besigye won 56% of the vote against 43% for Museveni. October 19 is the day set for the official crowning of Prince Charles Wesley Mumbere Iremangoma as king of Rwenzururu kingdom, the Obusinga bwa Rwenzururu, which is found in the Rwenzori …

By Mubatsi Asinja Habati Three weeks after Foreign Affairs Minister Sam Kutesa wrote to his Kenyan counterpart, Moses Wetangula, seeking a meeting over the latest hurdle in the ownership dispute over Migingo Island, a solution remains elusive. In fact, according to Fred Opolot, the executive director of Uganda Media Centre …

By Mubatsi Asinja Habati In 2000, a proposal to privatise some services at Entebbe International Airport was hatched. This came after a study, Big Push Strategy, by the UN Conference on Trade and Development recommended that Entebbe be transformed into a modern cargo handling centre in Africa. The study was …