Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT & URN | Police has confirmed that Lt. Gen. Henry Tumukunde will be charged with treason. The former security minister and now Presidential aspirant, was arrested Thursday night. Police said in a statement that the arrest follows “his utterances in a series of radio and television …
Read More »
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The army historical command warned president Yoweri Museveni about the direction the country was taking 12 years after he took power, URN has learnt. The historical command is an informal group comprising eleven senior army commanders of the then National Resistance Army-NRA, which ushered …
Read More »
UNRA need at least Shs6trillion in the next three years Kampala, Uganda | IAN KATUSIIME | Allen Kagina, the Executive Director at the Uganda National Roads Authority (UNRA) seems to be used to appointments. This was evident during her first press briefing on Feb.25 since she was re-appointed as ED …
Read More »
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has called for women’s economic empowerment as a strategic way of ending gender based violence against women – GBV. Speaking at the International Women’s day celebrations on Sunday at Mbale district head quarters, Museveni said that the only way of …
Read More »
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Captain Mike Mukula, the National Resistance Movement-NRM party vice chairperson for Eastern Uganda says after 35 years of President Yoweri Museveni Uganda should have a leader who doesn’t hail from Western Uganda. Speaking to URN, Mukula said although he’s not sectarian, he believes that …
Read More »
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A parallel National Resistance Movement-NRM coordination team has embarked on nationwide recruitment and orientation of new party coordinators ahead of the 2021 general election. The team is led by Milly Babalanda, the senior political advisor and personal assistant to President Yoweri Museveni. She told URN …
Read More »
Museveni, experts call for holistic approach to deal with sector challenges Kampala, Uganda | JULIUS BUSINGE | What would it take to improve water access, sanitation in most African countries that are essentially poor? This is one question that came up during the 20th Water and Sanitation International Congress …
Read More »
Why Uganda could incur over Shs 800bn in agricultural losses Kampala, Uganda | RONALD MUSOKE | Uganda risks losing up to Shs 800bn (US$218.3 million) in export revenue if the desert locusts are not halted in the coming weeks, according to the agriculture ministry. East Africa’s third largest economy …
Read More »
How our government built and has now almost destroyed the country’s oil industry THE LAST WORD | ANDREW M. MWENDA | Uganda’s upstream oil industry is dead. Ok, let me admit this is a bit of an exaggeration. It is more appropriate to say it is in a coma …
Read More »
What both sides need to do to enable re-opening of border Kampala, Uganda | IAN KATUSIIME | On February 21, expectations were high among the Ugandan and Rwandan citizens that the border connecting the two countries that has remained shut for exactly a year would be re-opened as Presidents; Yoweri …
Read More »
The Independent Uganda: You get the Truth we Pay the Price
