Tag Archives: Museveni

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Ugandan troops fighting in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have been instructed to hold their positions and wait for further instructions. Gen. Muhoozi Kainerugaba, Commander Land Forces of the Uganda Peoples Defense Forces (UPDF), tweeted late on Wednesday that Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni had …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | ‘We must budget for compulsory primary school education and stop these greedy teachers from sending children back home’, President Yoweri Museveni has urged lawmakers. ( read full budget speech bottom) This was in his address to Parliament following the presentation of the 2022/2023 financial year budget …

Hoima, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Members of the Babiito clan are seeking audience with President Yoweri Museveni over the ongoing conflict in Bunyoro Kitara Kingdom. The Babiito clan is the ruling clan of the Bunyoro Kitara kingdom. Led by Fred Mugenyi Rucunya, the chief prince locally known as Okwir, the …

Otuke, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Five percent of nodding syndrome victims in Acholi and parts of Lango sub-region have developed severe mental problems, the health minister Dr. Ruth Jane Aceng has revealed. Aceng said the children require urgent rehabilitation noting that they have become a huge burden to their parents …

Otuke, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Museveni has ordered a comprehensive operation against the Karamojong cattle rustlers in Northern and Eastern Uganda. The president was on Saturday meeting leaders from Acholi and Lango sub-region, at the Presidential Lodge in Baralegi, Okwang sub-county in Otuke district. Museveni who said the …

Amuru, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Leaders from Acholi sub-region on Saturday petitioned President Yoweri Museveni demanding his intervention to sort out the recurring insecurity in Apaa township once and for all. The leaders say that the Acholi communities residing in Apaa township which borders Adjumani and Amuru districts are experiencing …

ANALYSIS | BAKER BATTE | On January 26 this year, President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni told a National Resistance Movement party gathering also attended by senior government officials gathered at Kololo Ceremonial grounds to mark 36 years ever since his party came to power, that Uganda will attain the lower middle-income …

Moroto, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The latest report compiled by Anti-Stock Theft Unit (ASTU), shared to police headquarter, shows 291 guns have been recovered and 393 warriors killed so far in the ongoing forceful disarmament exercise in Karamoja sub-region. President Yoweri Museveni ordered the relaunch of offensive disarmament operations …

  Lessons for Uganda’s opposition from the repositioning of the National Front, France’s far-right party THE LAST WORD | ANDREW M MWENDA | On February 8, 2022, BBC’s Steven Sucker hosted Marine Le Pen on the Hardtalk program. Le Pen is the leader of the National Front (FN), a right-wing …

Kapchorwa, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Museveni has tasked the leaders of Sebei, Teso sub region to champion the end against the persistent cattle rustling that is spilling over from Karamoja. According to Museveni, the leaders in these regions plus Karamoja have a duty of ensuring security and peace …