What the politics of People Power tells us about the nature of government they will preside over THE LAST WORD | ANDREW M. MWENDA | People Power is the most trending political cult in Uganda. They are angry at the corruption of President Yoweri Museveni and his National Resistance Movement …
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President Museveni calls on teachers to work devotedly Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Museveni has urged teachers in the country to work devotedly adding that God would reward the teachers who do their work devotedly. He revealed that he and his counterparts benefitted from teachers in the …
Read More »Magufuli tells Museveni to speed up pipeline project
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The President of Tanzania, John Pombe Magufuli has told President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni to forego short term gains in terms of taxing oil companies and focus on longer term benefit. Magufuli, who was hosting Museveni at the Tanzania-Uganda business forum in Dar-es-salaam on Friday, …
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Johannesburg, South Africa | AFP | Zimbabwe’s former president Robert Mugabe, whose death was announced on Friday, was in power for 37 years, but is far from the only African leader to have ruled for so long. Equatorial Guinea’s Teodoro Obiang Nguema is Africa’s longest-serving president currently in power after …
Read More »MUSEVENI: Uganda is the safest place for any investor
Cape Town, South Africa | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda is the safest place for any investor to inject their money and offers immense business opportunities, President Yoweri Museveni has said. “If there is a place where you can easily make money, it is Uganda. The place is secure. That is …
Read More »Business key in transforming Africa, Museveni tells South Africa conference
Cape Town, South Africa | THE INDEPENDENT | The success of businesses in Africa is important because it has a direct role in ending polarisation and causing sustainable peace, President Museveni has said. The President, who is accompanied by First Lady Janet, made the remarks at the World Economic Forum …
Read More »Mao faults Museveni’s leadership over brutal killings
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Democratic Party-DP President General, Norbert Mao wants President, Yoweri Museveni and his ruling National Resistance-NRM party government held accountable for the brutal murder and atrocities committed against Ugandans. He said this at a media briefing at Kolping hotel in Hoima town on …
Read More »MUSEVENI-KAGAME: What to look out for next
Museveni-Kagame tension, diplomacy; What to look out for next Kampala, Uganda | RONALD MUSOKE | Despite their hyped reconciliation meeting and handshake on Aug.21 in the Angolan capital, Luanda, tense relations between President Yoweri Museveni and his Rwandan counterpart, Paul Kagame, appear likely to remain unless one of them makes a major …
Read More »President Museveni orders all Govt officials to fly Uganda Airlines
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Museveni has ordered all government officials to take Uganda Airlines whenever they are going to destinations it flies to. The order is contained in a cabinet memo dated August 5, 2019. All cabinet ministers and ministers of state must ensure this directive is …
Read More »Uganda’s Minimum Wages Bill hits snag
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Museveni has declined to assent to the Minimum Wages Bill. The Bill was in February passed by parliament. The Minimum Wages Bill, 2018 sought to empower the Minister of Gender, Labour and Social Development to appoint a Minimum wages Board to fix …
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