Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni on Monday received his award for outstanding leadership and commitment towards protecting and conserving the environment. In November last year, the President was awarded the Climate Mobility Champion Leader Award at the two-two-week-long mate change convention in Sharm El-Sheikh in Egypt. …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | There was chaos at Makerere University on Friday as the alumni and staff elected new leaders of their umbrella body; the Convocation. The chaos resulted from a standoff between the current leaders who were organizing the election and some of the candidates. Throughout the day, …
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Kigali, Rwanda | Xinhua | Young people in Africa have been challenged to take up leadership positions and actively play their role in the continent’s development agenda. The remarks were made by various speakers at the opening of the YouthConnekt Africa Summit which began Thursday in Rwanda’s capital of Kigali. The …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Equity Bank Uganda has officially launched the Equity Leaders Program (ELP) by admitting its first cohort of 123 top performing scholars from the 43 Districts where the bank has a branch presence. The launch of the Equity Leaders Program, a mentorship and leadership …
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Lessons from ordinary people on Kampala streets regarding the effect of good example on effective leadership THE LAST WORD | ANDREW M. MWENDA | A couple of years back, advocate David Mpanga wrote a powerful article on “whataboutism.” He was criticising people in Africa that respond to Western intrusions into …
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Kampala, Uganda | Ronald Musoke | Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has welcomed an apology from Aargauer Zeitung a Swiss publication which on Feb.09 published a story about her with what online readers referred to as “a racist and sexist headline.” The distasteful headline, “This grandmother will be the new chief of …
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They are serious political actors, not mere acentric characters | ANAÏS ANGELO | All-powerful presidents are an essential part of a stereotypical representation of African politics controlled by a few individuals, rather than by institutions. This view has been reinforced by a literary tradition sanctifying the biographies of “great men” …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Wednesday October 2nd, 2019 was another exciting day as the Forum for Women in Democracy (FOWODE) marked the end of yet another mentoring camp for young leaders. The 26th cohort Leadership Camp closing ceremony, was like each of the 25 before it, unique in many …
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Ellen Johnson Sirleaf accepts prize for African leadership Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (Pictured), the former President of Liberia, accepted the 2017 Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership at a special leadership ceremony in Kigali, Rwanda on April 27. Speaking to guests from Rwanda and …
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The continent’s democracies badly need a new generation of leaders, but where are they to be found? COMMENT | STEPHEN CHAN | In every single African country, young people make up the majority of the population and they are generally very ill served by their ageing governments. Young leaders, where they …
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The Independent Uganda: You get the Truth we Pay the Price
