Tag Archives: Museveni

Isingiro, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Museveni has directed squatters on part of the land belonging to Nakivale refugee settlement earmarked to host an industrial park in Insigiro district to vacate. He issued the directive in his address on local radio stations and televisions in western Uganda from his …

Kabale, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda National Roads Authority (UNRA) will only develop four out of the projected nine landing sites during the establishment of ferry services on Lake Bunyonyi. The possibility of ferry services on Africa’s second deepest lake is a result of a campaign commitment made in 2015 …

Apac, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Apac district council has resolved to arrest and fine parents who will refuse to send their children back to school as schools reopen on Monday next week. President Yoweri Museveni in his recent address to the nation okayed school reopening. In a comprehensive school reopening …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Museveni has said the NRM party candidate in the Kayunga LC5 by-election, Andrew Muwonge won genuinely. In his end of year address at his country home in Rwakitura on Friday, Museveni said NRM operatives could not have stolen the by-election from the opposition …

✅ Schools re-open Jan 10 ✅ Bars & concerts open Jan 25 ✅ Curfew to be lifted when bars open ✅ Transport sector fully re-open ✅ Cinema &sports events to fully open Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Museveni has announced the lifting of the lockdown due to COVID-19. …

Kampala, Uganda  | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda has had a frantic 2021 as it experienced one of the most contested presidential elections, a devastating pandemic and a new war against terrorism. A three-month presidential election campaign culminated on Jan. 14, with the incumbent, 76-year-old Yoweri Museveni tussling it out with the …

Masaka, Uganda  | THE INDEPENDENT | The National Unity Platform-NUP leadership is split over the approach that can appropriately be used to dislodge President Yoweri Museveni from power. Although the party contested the election results in a petition that was prematurely withdrawn from court, its leadership is now faced with divergent …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Uganda Communications Commission-UCC has asked radio and television stations to avail airtime to government officials to mobilize people for Covid-19 vaccination. In a letter dated December 23rd 2021 and signed by Suzan Wegoye, UCC acting Executive Director, the Commission says it is implementing a …

YEAR ENDER: Remembering 2021 January 2nd President Museveni directs Ministry of Finance to halt activates of DGF, a huge donor facility, with a Shs500 billion fund over its operations in the country without Cabinet approval. 14th   Uganda holds presidential and parliamentary elections. President Museveni contests against several candidates with main …

NEWS ANALYSIS | BAKER BATTE | By the end of his current term in 2026, President Yoweri Kaguta Tibuhaburwa Museveni will have ruled Uganda for 40 years. By that time, he will be 81-years old. Twenty years ago, not very many people would have anticipated that by 2026, the country …