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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Alliance for National Transformation (ANT) presidential candidate, Gen. Mugisha Muntu says that the least Ugandans must do is to sideline the incumbent leader Yoweri Kaguta Museveni since he has failed the masses and is drunk with power. “There must be elimination of dictatorship and …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The National Resistance Movement presidential candidate Yoweri Kaguta Museveni on Monday kicked off campaigns seeking re-election as the President of Uganda. Museveni started the campaigns in Luweero where he waged National Resistance Army war of 1981-1986 which ushered him into power. He met NRM flag …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has finally delivered on a pledge he made to the Association of Lira Catholic Women Guild one and a half decades ago. In 2005, President Museveni during a political campaign pledged two pickup trucks, one for the association of the Catholic …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Former Forum For Democratic Change (FDC) Presidential flag bearer Kizza Besigye has said he will not shy from campaigning for candidates in other political parties, if they support his ‘liberation’ message. In a wide ranging pre-election interview on the NBS Morning Breeze show Monday (video …

  What does each stand for? Kampala, Uganda | RONALD MUSOKE | Following months of uncertainty, Uganda will hold the next presidential polls on Jan.14 next year with a record 11 candidates. President Museveni, who has been Uganda’s president since 1986, is seeking another five year term after successfully removing …

  How the opposition have invented a non-existing problem and are promising to build bridges where no rivers exist THE LAST WORD | ANDREW M. MWENDA | On Monday, President Yoweri Museveni was nominated to run for an eighth term of office. When (not if) he wins this election, it …

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 …

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 …

  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 …

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 …