Tag Archives: Oryem

No funding for NAM and G77 gatherings- parliament report Kampala, Uganda | IAN KATUSIIME | Two major international summits that were meant to happen in Kampala in the next one year will not happen after government failed to allocate them funding. The summits are the Non Aligned Movement (NAM) and …

Should the General be banned from social media? Kampala, Uganda | MUBATSI ASINJA HABATI | Lt. Gen. Muhoozi Kainerugaba has a new moniker. He is now called “The Tweeting General”. It is a joke on his rather choice tweets. But Gen. Muhoozi’s tweets are no jokes. His latest controversial tweet …

Kampala, Uganda |  Xinhua | African nations should be allowed to develop their homegrown governance systems instead of adopting the Western-style democracy that has not yielded positive results over the years, said scholars, government representatives and diplomats as they were attending a democracy symposium here on Friday. Opening the symposium …

NRM MANIFESTO WEEK | Henry Okello Oryem, State Minister for International Cooperation, presented the progress on the manifesto commitments noting that the Ministry implements a foreign policy that promotes peaceful and friendly relations with all countries, especially with our neighbours, on the basis of respect for each other and mutual …

Museveni stuck with ‘diplomatically damaged goods’ Kampala, Uganda | IAN KATUSIIME | Since the U.S. government announced visa restrictions on unnamed top Ugandan officials on April 16, the main question among Uganda’s ruling class has been “who is on the unwanted list?”. Political commentator and outspoken Makerere University Kampala don, …

Cancellation of Heads of State summit was the anti-climax of the bloc’s 20th anniversary Kampala, Uganda | IAN KATUSIIME | On November 30, the East African Community (EAC) marks twenty years. A scheduled Heads of State Summit for the six EAC countries; Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi and South Sudan …

  Uganda’s Who-is-Who live in fear of US travel ban Kampala, Uganda | IAN KATUSIIME | As if U.S. sanctions slapped on President Yoweri Museveni’s former right hand man, Gen. Kale Kayihura for his role as Inspector of General of Police were not bad enough, another top government official, Pius …

And why East Africa lost more over outdated voting habits at continental body As the heads of state and government of the African Union meeting in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, started voting on Jan. 30 for the next head of the continental body, Kenya’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Amina …

As part of celebrations of  the police week that fall every first week of October when Uganda attained her Independence, the Uganda police on Saturday Oct.1 held the 2nd Erinayo Oryema memorial lecture at Makerere University main hall with a theme “Police is the public and Public is the Police” …