Varian vice President Whitman (centre) introduces a comany official when he met President Museveni. PHOTO PPU President Yoweri Museveni has said that Uganda will pay for new cancer radiotherapy equipment and also provide a grant to Varian Medical Systems Global Government to train young Ugandan professionals in cancer and oncology …
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President Yoweri Museveni has said education and rural transformation can help empower the girl child and push women’s progress for a better society. He said marginalising girls in the field of education would lead to unbalanced growth. The president was speaking at a high-level event on September 21, during the …
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End ideological disorientation, boost market integration – Museveni President Yoweri Museveni has told the UN General Assembly that the world is a better place with spread of affluence around the world, citing developments in China and India. He said the old affluent societies and the new ones are today both benefiting. …
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President Yoweri Museveni has urged world leaders at the United Nations Summit on Refugees to deal firmly with the causes of the crisis, stating that “it is not correct to continue treating the symptoms but not the disease itself.” Museveni told the world leaders on Tuesday that often, the refugees “are running …
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President Yoweri Museveni has arrived in New York for the 71st United Nations General Assembly . Museveni, who flew in after a visit to France, was received at the JFK international airport by Uganda’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations Dr. Richard Nduhuura and Uganda’s ambassador to the United States …
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PHOTOGRAPHS: President Yoweri Museveni is in France. He has had bilateral talks with French President Francois Hollande at the Elysee Palace. Museveni expressed his concerns over the recent terrorist attacks in France and asked that the fight against terrorism also addresses the question of pseudo-ideology. He earlier met 50 French investors organised under the …
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Museveni badly needs $20bn for big projects, can his technocrats get it? President Yoweri Museveni has set goals for his government to construct a number of mega projects requiring about US$20 billion to finance in four years up to 2020. Can he achieve them? The projects include key oil infrastructure, including …
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VIDEO: Museveni’s first 100 days – Opposition leaders have beckoned on government to listen more to the population if problems affecting Uganda are to be fixed. The call was made during the NGO forum organized public dialogue which attracted political actors from both government and the opposition. Share on: WhatsApp
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Mogadishu, Somalia | AFP | Somalia on Tuesday agreed to lift a week-old ban on imports of Kenyan khat after a storm of controversy from angry growers of the leafy narcotic in neighbouring Kenya. The decision was made on the margins of a historic one-day summit in the Somali capital, …
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President Yoweri Museveni has commissioned ultra modern air- defence systems for Uganda. Over 60 graduate troops were also commissioned to man them at a ceremony in Masindi at the weekend. At the ceremony, Museveni commended the army leadership for building independent capabilities on land, water and air. He hailed the army leadership for recruiting young graduates …
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