So why does President Museveni ignore it? Uganda, Uganda | MUBATSI ASINJA HABATI | Since scenes of violence being meted out in broad daylight against the most prominent presidential candidates challenging President Yoweri Museveni, most commentators and analysts have said the violence sets stage for the 2021 elections. Presidential nominees …
Read More »Museveni fulfills pledge to Budaka women after 5 years
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Museveni has fulfilled a pledge of 10 heifers he made to Budaka women 5 years ago. Museveni who is seeking re-election as President of the country in the 2021 general polls had while campaigning for the 2016 elections made the pledge of the …
Read More »Uneducated demand ministry and 5 seats in parliament
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The association of uneducated persons in Uganda (Abataasoma) have asked the President Yoweri Museveni to give them a ministry that will work on the issues of persons who are uneducated and and to also secure for them parliamentary seats from the five regions to …
Read More »Museveni fulfills UGX 150 million pledge to Ikwera Girls Secondary School
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has fulfilled his pledge of 150 million shillings to procure a mini-bus for Ikwera Girls Secondary School in Kwania district. Museveni pledged to donate the bus to the school after a school truck, a Tata lorry Reg. No. UG 0753G that …
Read More »EU delegation to meet President Museveni over environmental conservation
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The European Union (EU) delegation in Uganda will today meet President Yoweri Museveni to discuss conservation of natural resources. Eight EU Ambassadors have for the past four days been in Western and Northern Uganda to assess and discuss environmental conservation in the country. Top on …
Read More »West Nile veterans demand fulfillment of UGX 500M pledge
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Over 150 veterans in West Nile are demanding for the fulfillment of 500 Million Shillings pledge. In a meeting held on Thursday in Arua city with State Minister for Veteran Affairs Christopher Kibazanga and officials from Ministry of Defense, the veterans leaders demanded that the …
Read More »Museveni fulfills UGX 200M pledge to Buruuli Chiefdom SACCO
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has fulfilled the 200 Million Shillings pledge to the Savings and Credit Cooperative Organization of Buruuli Chiefdom. The President announced the pledge on 10th December 2018 at the coronation anniversary of Isabaruuli Constantine Mwogezi Butamanya, the cultural leader of Buruuli Chiefdom. …
Read More »Museveni attends Magufuli swearing in
Dar Es Salaam | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Museveni is in Tanzania for the swearing in of newly re-elected Tanzania President John Pombe Magufuli. Also at the ceremony is Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa. Magufuli won a second term last week, with a landslide victory of 84% of the vote, …
Read More »Kigezi elders feud over misuse of Museveni’s reward cash
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | 154 elders in Kigezi sub-region under their association “Banyakigezi Elders Forum (BEF)” are locked in a bitter fight over the sale of a house bought using reward cash President Yoweri Museveni gave for their role in mediating between him and former prime minister Amama Mbabazi. …
Read More »Tondeka bus company owners sign new deal
But missed milestones signal more bumps on the road Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Tondeka Metro Company (TMC) which wants to introduce public transport buses in the Kampala city metropolitan area has signed an operating management contract with Rose Hill Transport (RHT) Holding Ltd of Mauritius. Under the …
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