Entebbe, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda and Rwanda have agreed to investigate recent incidents that have reportedly soured relations between the two countries. President Yoweri Museven told a press conference that Sunday’s talks were positive. “We have discussed many things ranging from Infrastructure, transportation, economy and security, and …
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Entebbe, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Rwanda President Paul Kagame has arrived in Uganda for a one-day working visit. The African Union chairman moved straight into a closed meeting with his host, President Yoweri Museveni at State House Entebbe. The meeting is a follow up on the Addis Ababa talks of …
Read More »Kagame arrives in Uganda on Sunday
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Rwanda President Paul Kagame will have a one-day working visit to Uganda on Sunday March 25, 2018. The meeting with President Yoweri Museveni in Entebbe will be a follow up on the Addis Ababa talks of February, whose aim, according to sources, is to find …
Read More »Museveni warns on Mailo-land evictions
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Museveni has assured Bibanja holders living on Mailo land that their land tenure is legally protected and no one should evict them. Those chasing them from their land were doing so illegally, said the President, adding that it was in contravention of …
Read More »THIS WEEK: Museveni assures cattle keepers on ticks
THIS WEEK: Museveni assures cattle keepers on ticks Kampala,Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Museveni has calmed the anxieties of cattle keepers and encouraged them not to lose hope about the challenge of treating drug resistant ticks that have continuously posed a threat to their livestock in the country. Museveni …
Read More »Newly appointed Judges sworn in
Kampala, Uganda | GODFREY SSALI | Eleven newly appointed Judicial officers including ten of the High Court and one of Court of Appeal who had retired, have been sworn in at the State House in Entebbe, on a function officiated by President Museveni. Acting Chief Registrar Isaac Muwata administered the oath …
Read More »Museveni flags off Team Uganda to Commonwealth Games
Entebbe, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Museveni has stressed that it is vital for sportsmen and women to maintain discipline and cooperation while competing. The President made the call at State House, Entebbe when he flagged off Team Uganda for the 21st Commonwealth Games slated to start on 4th …
Read More »Uganda’s myths and realities
Why Besigye can only govern using Museveni’s politics of corruption and patronage THE LAST WORD | Andrew M. Mwenda | The discussion of a post President YoweriMuseveni Uganda tends to be programmatic rather than analytical. It is built on false hopes based on textbook theories rather than the actual social …
Read More »Tumukunde sacking
TUMUKUNDE SACKING: How Museveni played `inner circle’ politics Kampala, Uganda | HAGGAI MATSIKO | By the time he fired the former Minister for Security; Lt. Gen. Henry Tumukunde, President Yoweri Museveni had been resisting pressure from within his inner circle to act. Tumukunde’s sacking was not an easy decision because he …
Read More »THIS WEEK: Museveni promises to tackle crime in Lango sub-region
THIS WEEK: Museveni promises to tackle crime in Lango sub-region Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Museveni has assured the people of Lango Sub-Region in Northern Uganda that pockets of insecurity in the area will be dealt with government. He said that since the National Resistance Movement (NRM) government …
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