Sembabule, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Museveni has defended a government proposal to import medical personnel from Cuba to work in public hospitals in rural areas, saying the move was intended to avert a crisis created by Ugandan doctors. Reports indicate that government intends to import at …
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Why the personality of the head of a country or a leader at any level is vital and can have great impact COMMENT | JOSEPH BOSSA | Love him or hate him, Andrew Mwenda is one of the more significant public intellectuals in the East African region. That he appears to …
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Minister Persis Namuganza salutes Museveni for sparing time to meet Busoga, Bugisu youth Entebbe, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Museveni has urged members of the Ugandan legislature to put emphasis on the allocation of more funds to programs that facilitate and propel development of wananchi in …
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MUSEVENI 7-YEAR-TERM: Details of how his team plans to get it Kampala, Uganda | HAGGAI MATSIKO | Just days after the Constitutional Court sitting in Mbale completed hearing of a case challenging amendments passed last year to remove the 75-year constitutional age limit to allow President Yoweri Museveni to contest again …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The top stories in this week’s The Independent. COVER STORY Museveni wants seven year term: Details of how his team plans to get it THE LAST WORD Inside Uganda’s healthcare tears: Why trying to do everything for everyone, everywhere has ended up doing …
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Baralegi, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Museveni has commissioned Baralegi Presidential Demonstration Farm, in Baralegi, Okwang Sub-County in Otuke District in Lango Sub-Region. The farm is the third of its kind in the country, after Kawumu Farm in Luweero District and Kityerera in Busoga Sub-Region. President Museveni said …
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Why the failure of a third force has locked us in a choice between Museveni and Besigye THE LAST WORD | Andrew M. Mwenda | In debating whether President Yoweri Museveni should go or stay we are not indulging in an abstract theoretical exercise but a challenge of practical politics. …
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London, UK | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Museveni has held meetings with several leaders at the sidelines of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) including UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson with whom he held a productive meeting to discuss the Commonwealth. According to sources the two leaders talked …
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Mbale, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | One of the petitioners challenging the 2017 Constitutional Amendment Act says President Yoweri Museveni was not guided before he signed the bill into law in December last year. Male Mabiriizi Kiwanuka, in his submission to the Constitutional Court hearing in Mbale district on Wednesday …
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Kampala, Uganda | JOSEPH BAHINGWIRE | The government of Uganda has been accused of involving the military in major public service sectors which has undermined the traditional civil service structures. Dr Zahara Nampewo the Director Human Rights and Peace Center Makerere University (HURIPEC) has said the militarization of the public …
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