Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Nakawa Magistrates Court on Monday issued criminal summons for former Presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu over allegations of being in possession of a falsified driving permit. It follows a case filed before the Court by private prosecutor Hassan Male Mabirizi-Kiwanuka on 12 …
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Is the presidency project taking shape? Kampala, Uganda | MUBATSI ASINJA HABATI | On January 24, the media was awash with photos of Lt. Gen. Muhoozi Kainerugaba and Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame. Gen. Muhoozi who is a son of President Yoweri Museveni, senior presidential advisor on special operations and commander …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | These are the top stories in this week’s THE INDEPENDENT. COVER STORY Gen. Muhoozi’s emerging power: Is the presidency project taking shape? THE LAST WORD Mutebile, the passing of a giant: He has since 1992 been the most influential figure in Uganda’s economic policy orientation …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | These are the top stories in this week’s THE INDEPENDENT. COVER STORY New pregnancy policy bears twin problems: Is Education ministry aborting discipline to please donors? ANALYSIS Rising fuel prices: Did URA, Ministry of Health cause it? THE LAST WORD On 36 years of Museveni: …
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It is incredible how politics in our part of the world is far removed from reality THE LAST WORD | ANDREW M. MWENDA | What determines the governance strategies elites employ in any given country? The philosopher, Karl Marx, argued that the way people organise themselves to solve their basic …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Leaders in the county have been asked to reconcile as they heal from last year’s general elections. Speaking at the New Year prayers at All Saints Nakasero, the Diocesan Secretary of Kampala Diocese, Can John Awodi, called for peaceful conflict resolution and tolerance. He …
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Washington, US | Xinhua | Republicans are locking in newly gerrymandered maps for the legislatures in several U.S. battleground states, The New York Times wrote in a report published recently. “In Texas, North Carolina, Ohio and Georgia, Republican state lawmakers have either created supermajorities capable of overriding a governor’s veto …
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An analysis of tweets by the First Son and UPDF Commander of Land Forces COMMENT | IAN KATUSIIME | Lt. Gen. Muhoozi Kainerugaba, President Yoweri Museveni’s son and Commander of Land Forces in the Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) has turned Twitter into a stream of his unfiltered thoughts to …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | These are the top stories in this week’s THE INDEPENDENT. COVER STORY Ssegirinya, Ssewanyana bail fight exposes Museveni frustration: Why torture, harassment of opposition is failed strategy THE LAST WORD What is Africa’s problem: Revisiting Museveni’s ideas about Uganda and our wider continent after his …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The National Unity Platform (NUP), the party with the highest number of elected leaders in the opposition, officially declared this week that they will not be joining the People’s Front for Transition-PFT. The PFT pressure group was last week launched, with its leaders saying …
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