COMMENT | Yoweri Kaguta Museveni | Condolences on the killing of the young Bazukulu Nagirinya and Kitayimbwa by the criminals as the two were at the gate of the former’s residence at 23:49 hours on the night of August 28th, 2019. Also condolences on the murder of Joshua Rushegyera and …
Read More »MURDERS: Museveni orders police to fire CCTV team
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Museveni has fired manning the CCTV camera centres for failing to act fast following the recent murders in the capital Kampala. “The officer at Kibumbiro Police post- Busega says that she tried to contact the 999 but the 999 was …
Read More »Machar back finally in Juba for meeting with Kiir
S.Sudan rebel leader in Juba in bid to salvage peace deal Juba, South Sudan | AFP | South Sudan’s exiled rebel leader Riek Machar arrived in Juba on Monday for the first time in a year and held rare talks with President Salva Kiir as the rivals try to salvage …
Read More »Presidential Initiative on Skilling sees through 8480 female graduands
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Museveni has advised girls that have been skilled in a variety of trades to use the vocational skills that they have acquired from their training to meet the needs of people, which in turn, will make them wealthy and prosperous. The President …
Read More »Why Museveni might not sign new KCCA law
Stage set for battle with Lukwago Kampala, Uganda | JULIUS BUSINGE AND JULIAN SABIITI | KCCA officials and Kampala district MPs are anxious about whether President Yoweri Museveni will assent to the Kampala Capital City Authority (Amendment) Bill, 2019 that parliament has passed. The anxiety is partly because of the …
Read More »Kamya to Museveni: I’ve already delivered Kampala
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Kampala Minister Beti Olive Namisango Kamya has told President Museveni that she has already delivered on her pledge to turn Kampala into the support base for the National Resistance Movement-NRM party. Kamya was speaking during the graduation of 8,480 girls and women with …
Read More »From king to emperor
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 …
Read More »Uganda’s top 50 teachers get land, laptop and sh1m each
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, …
Read More »Africa’s longest serving leaders
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 …
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