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  ✳ NRM CHOICE FOR SPEAKER Jacob Oulanyah ✳ NRM CHOICE FOR DEPUTY SPEAKER Anita Among Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT & URN | Hours after the NRM party CEC and MPs caucus voted Jacob Oulanyah as their flag bearer in the race for Speaker in the 11th Parliament, Alitwala …

➡ Current CEC Members ✳ Museveni ✳ Kigongo ✳ Kadaga ✳ Oulanyah ✳ Mukula ✳ Baryomunsi ✳ Singh Katongole ✳ Aleper ✳ Kiwanda Entebbe, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT & URN  |  The Central Executive Committee (CEC) of the ruling party NRM has picked Jacob Oulanyah as their choice of flag …

  Goma, DRC | XINHUA |  Around 3,000 people fled the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)’s eastern city of Goma for neighbouring Rwanda on Sunday as lava from a volcanic eruption from Mt Nyiragongo reached the airport of the city. The evacuation plan for Goma has been activated, said government …

Entebbe, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  Close to 24 hours after the Central Executive Committee (CEC) of the ruling party NRM converged at State House Entebbe to pick a flag bearer in elections of Speaker for parliament, a decision is yet to be made. CEC’s choice of speaker and deputy …

Ministry of Education tells semi-candidates that ‘you are not yet candidates’ 📌 UGANDA 🇺🇬 NEW BACK TO SCHOOL SCHEDULE ▶ P1, P2 & P3 – June 7 ▶ P6, S3 & S5 – June 7 📌 3-year plan to harmonize school calendar ✳ Terms 12 weeks ✳ Holidays 15-17 days ✳ No exams …

How Speakership race tested NRM and exposed the President COVER STORY | Ian Katusiime |  When Rebecca Kadaga, while battling to retain her position as Speaker of Parliament, picked expression of interest in the job forms at the NRM headquarters on Kyadondo Road in Kampala on May 19, she had a …

✅ CEC meeting 11am TODAY ✅ NRM caucus elections 8.am TOMORROW Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  & URN |  Hours before the Central Executive Committee (CEC) meets and an NRM Parliamentary caucus election is held to determine the party’s candidate for Speaker and Deputy, Government Chief Whip Ruth Nankabirwa has said MPS …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | These are the top stories in this week’s THE INDEPENDENT. COVER STORY Museveni succession plot in Oulanyah – Kadaga battle: How Speakership race tested NRM and exposed the President THE LAST WORD A dangerous new world: How social media promotes radical extremism with a high …

Tokyo 2020 enters operational delivery mode ➡ 75% of Village residents secured vaccination ➡ Limitation on participants entering Japan ➡ Games-time medical system review ➡ Medical personnel from abroad ➡ 54k+ athletes in 430+ safe major events since 9/2020 Tokyo, Japan | THE INDEPENDENT | With up to 75 per cent …

Nairobi, Kenya | THE INDEPENDENT |  Justice Martha Karambu Koome was today sworn in as the country’s 15th Chief Justice and the first female to ascend to the highest judicial office in Kenya’s history. The new Chief Justice and President of the Supreme Court of Kenya was today sworn in at …