Fort Portal, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The National Resistance Movement-NRM party leaders in Fort Portal have distanced themselves from the letter that was written by a section of NRM councilors requesting the National Unity Platform NUP leader, Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu aka Bobi Wine, to hold a charity concert with the …
Read More »NRM councilors petition Bobi Wine for financial help to treat sick cadres
Fort Portal, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | National Resistance Movement-NRM councillors in Fort Portal city have written to the leader of the National Unity Platform-NUP, Robert Kyagulanyi asking him to hold a charity concert in Fort Portal to raise 256 million Shillings that is needed by two NRM councillors that are …
Read More »Mabirizi pinpoints Court of Appeal justice as NRM supporter in appeal at EACJ
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Jailed lawyer Male Mabirizi has asked the East African Court of Justice to nullify a decision that denied him temporary release, saying one of the Justices who presided over the matter is biased because he is a member of the ruling National Resistance Movement which …
Read More »Bobi Wine brings back our Dubai ‘girls’
Tears as many speak of the dark side of the UAE Entebbe, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | It was a sad scene at Entebbe International Airport as a group of 12 young Ugandan men and women, some unable to sit or walk, and in tears, returned home and spoke of …
Read More »Museveni vs Muhoozi
Inside the succession battle ahead of 2026 Kampala, Uganda | IAN KATUSIIME | Until Gen. Salim Saleh appeared at the piping ceremony of his nephew Gen. Muhoozi Kainerugaba, it appeared that veterans of the Bush War in Luwero preferred to stay away from the rabble-rousing erstwhile Army Commander of Land …
Read More »Kisoro NRM vice chairperson charged with aggravated child trafficking
Kisoro, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Ramathan Ndikuyezi, the Kisoro District National Resistant Movement (NRM) party Vice Chairperson is on remand for alleged aggravated child trafficking. He appeared before Rachael Tabaruka, the Kabale Grade One Magistrate on Tuesday, who remanded him to Ndorwa prisons. Ndikuyezi was arrested in July this year …
Read More »Parliament elects Uganda’s representatives to EALA
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Parliament has elected Uganda’s representatives to the East African Legislative Assembly, retaining six incumbents, all belonging to the ruling party, NRM, which boasts of a majority in the House. Three new representatives – two former MPs in the previous 10th Parliament: Veronica Kadogo Babirye and Jacquiline …
Read More »No shine in Uganda’s gold
Vanishing mineral exports dent economic recovery Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda’s non-formal export sector has maintained a downward trajectory year-on-year, according to the latest July 2022 figures from Bank of Uganda (BoU). The effect has been a dent on the otherwise emerging signs of recovery in exports buoyed …
Read More »Prof. Kagonyera: NRM intolerance should stop
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Prof. Mondo Kagonyera, the senior presidential adviser on Kigezi Affair and Kabale University University Chancellor, has decried the high levels of intolerance to divergent views that have taken over the National Resistant Movement (NRM), a party he belongs to. Speaking at the launch of …
Read More »NRM caucus returns EALA MPs, leaves opposition guessing
🔵 BACK TO EALA ✅ Rose Akol Okullu ✅ James Kakooza ✅ Mary Mugyenyi ✅ Paul Mwasa Musamali ✅ Dennis Namaga ✅ George Stephen Odongo Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The ruling National Resistance Movement -NRM Parliamentary Caucus has not endorsed any particular Opposition and Independent candidates contesting to …
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