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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Museveni has asked the National Resistance Movement-NRM party MPs to support the proposed increase of the Parish Development Model Fund budget from the current 200 billion to 1.069 trillion Shillings. In the current financial year 2021/2022, parliament appropriated only 200 Billion Shillings towards …

Mbale, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Lydia Wanyoto, the former National Resistance Movement-NRM Mbale City Woman parliamentary candidate has filed an application for leave of court to amend her petition against the victory of her rival, Connie Galiwango and the Electoral Commission. Appearing in closed Chambers at High Court in Mbale …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Three veterans of the National Resistance Movement-NRM have warned that the proposal by the government to abolish the mailo land tenure system risks plunging the country into chaos if not handled properly. Retired Major Abdul Nadduli, Maj Kakooza Mutale have both said government is misguided …

What Ugandan leader hopes to achieve by backing the Kenya 2022 frontrunner Kampala, Uganda | IAN KATUSIIME | The Kenyan government may have blocked the deputy president William Ruto from travelling to meet Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni on Aug. 2 but insiders say that the bond between the two politicians …

THE LAST WORD | ANDREW M. MWENDA | Since the NRM government fully embraced neoliberal reforms in 1992, Uganda has witnessed the growth to dominance of multinational capital in our economy and with that the equal decline to near-insignificance of local/national/domestic/indigenous capital. But this has only been successful because the …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Museveni has asked Members of Parliament to support proposed amendments to the Land Act. Museveni’s request was communicated by Prime Minister Robinah Nabbanja to Chairpersons, Deputy Chairpersons, and different regional whips of the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) party in parliament. This was during …

Rukiga, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Medard Ensinikweri, the incumbent opposition Forum for Democratic Change-FDC party chairperson for Rukiga district has defected to the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) party. Ensinikweri handed over the FDC party card and t-shirt to Twaha Selubowa Yalyakumanyi, Rukiga district NRM party returning officer on …

  Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Inter-Party Organization for Dialogue-IPOD is in the process of drafting a new Memorandum of Understanding-MoU that binds all political parties with representation in Parliament. Four political parties namely the Democratic Party-DP, Forum for Democratic Change-FDC, National Resistance Movement-NRM and Uganda People’s Congress-UPC signed …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The National Resistance Movement (NRM) party is currently courting Independent Members of Parliament to support the government’s legislative agenda in the eleventh Parliament. Thomas Tayebwa, the Government Chief Whip says that the NRM is finalizing Memorandums of Understanding –MoUs with different Independent MPs. Speaking at …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Rosemary Nansubuga Seninde, the former Minister for Primary Education has welcomed her appointment as the National Resistance Movement-NRM Director for Mobilization, Training and Cadre Development. Seninde who also lost the Wakiso Woman Member of Parliament seat is replacing Mathias Kasamba who died early this year. …