Tag Archives: Museveni

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  | The forthcoming anti-corruption walk by President, Yoweri Museveni is a mockery, according to Maj. Gen. Mugisha Muntu, the National Coordinator of the Alliance for National Transformation-ANT party. President, Museveni is expected to lead the country in a walk against corruption on December 04th, 2019. …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  | The Criminal Investigations Directorate –CID has forwarded the files of two teachers accused of sodomizing and defiling their pupils to the Directorate of Public Prosecution- DPP. One of the suspects whose names haven’t been disclosed is a teacher at King Fahad Islamic primary school …

How Museveni can beat Bobi Wine Kampala, Uganda | JOSEPH WERE | The 2021 presidential election campaign is in full gear; at least for the incumbent, President Yoweri Museveni. And this time, even after 33 years in power, Museveni appears once again to be bringing something new to the campaign. …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda’s first mobile phone and laptop assembly plant SIMI Mobile has been commissioned this afternoon in Namanve Industrial Park, Mukono district. The factory built by Chinese Electronics firm ENGO Holdings Limited was installed to produce 2,000 mobile phones, 1,500 Smart phones and 800 mini …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The top stories in this week’s THE INDEPENDENT. COVER STORY Battle for the ghetto: Behind Museveni move on Bobi Wine THE LAST WORD The politics of Uganda’s healthcare: Why our hospitals lack ambulances as public officials indulge themselvesin fancy four-wheel drive vehicles ANALYSIS Ugandan …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  |  The Speaker of Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga wants President Museveni to take lead in the fight against Female Genital mutilation in the country.  Kadaga was speaking on Thursday while meeting a team from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) led by the Regional Director Dr Julitta Onabanjo …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  | The Deputy Speaker of Parliament Jacob Oulanyah and Rwanda’s Parliament Speaker Donatile Mukabalisa has urged MPs from both countries to intervene in the border conflict. Uganda and Rwanda have for the last months experienced tensions with the later closing the border in February amid …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  | The African Peer Review Mechanism-APRM is considering adopting President Yoweri Museveni’s bottlenecks facing Africa as new areas of assessment while evaluating member states. In 2015, Museveni presented 11 bottlenecks which according to him are hindering effective socio-economic transformation of the African continent. Museveni singled …

  Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Museveni has called for greater adoption of technology to boost tax collection across the continent. He said technology can help tax bodies like the Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) improve their records, and therefore know who and how much to tax. “For …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has made his first main visit to the Police Headquarters at Naguru in Nakawa Division in Kampala. He was received by the Internal Affairs State Minister, Obiga Kania and Inspector General of Police- IGP, Martin Okoth Ochola. Ochola applauded Museveni for visiting the …