Your visit showed us you were serving someone’s vested interests but not the interests of the people of Kalaki COMMENT | JULIUS ODEKE | Dear Hon Rose Lily Akello, minister in charge Ethics and Integrity, on behalf of the people of Kalaki District, I commend you for the efforts you are …
Read More »‘Museveni has not written letter on Service Awards’
Entebbe, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | State House has issued a statement, warning that a letter circulating on social media purportedly authored by the President of Uganda Yoweri Museveni, is forged. In the letter that is circulating, the AG, IGG, DPP and NRM caucus are questioned as to why …
Read More »Lawyers, Judiciary clash over meeting to discuss Museveni’s letter
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A section of the members of the Uganda Law Society clashed over with the Judiciary following the High Court’s recent decision blocking their Extra Ordinary General Meeting that wanted to discuss among others the independence of the Judiciary. In a statement issued on Wednesday evening, …
Read More »AGOA BAN: Museveni responds to President Biden
Entebbe, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has written to United States President Joe Biden about his decision to suspend Uganda from the African Growth and Opportunity Act -AGOA. At the end of October, President Biden wrote to the US House of Representatives informing them that starting next …
Read More »FULL LETTER: Xi Jinping writes on China-Russia friendship
A signed article by Chinese President Xi Jinping titled “Forging Ahead to Open a New Chapter of China-Russia Friendship, Cooperation and Common Development” was published Monday on Russia’s newspaper Russian Gazette and the website of RIA Novosti news agency ahead of his state visit to Russia. Following is an English …
Read More »OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT MUSEVENI: Decision not to reopen schools may do more harm than good
Advocates of a dead year for schools are similar to the advocates of a continuous lockdown of the economy to defeat COVID-19 OPEN LETTER | Ass. Prof Mesharch Katusiimeh Rwebiita | Your Excellency, as government is mulling over the fate of education institutions in this COVID-19 new normal, a group is …
Read More »TRUMP: Don’t be a tough guy. Don’t be a fool
Trump letter to Erdogan: ‘Don’t be a fool’ Washington, United States | AFP | “Don’t be a fool,” Donald Trump warned his counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan in an extraordinary letter sent the day Turkey launched its incursion into northeastern Syria — warning history risked branding him a “devil.” Three days …
Read More »‘Museveni letter on torture is cosmetic’
We want action, say critics Kampala, Uganda | RONALD MUSOKE | Human rights advocates and opposition politicians have reacted to President Yoweri Museveni’s recent letter on torture with frustration, labeling it as “merely cosmetic.” President Museveni’s Oct. 23 letter titled, “Guidelines on managing rioters, terrorists, criminals and looters and methods …
Read More »Tanzanian newspaper suspended for ‘insulting president’
Nairobi, Kenya | AFP | An independent Tanzanian newspaper has been suspended for two years, a government spokesman said Tuesday, accusing the publication of sedition and endangering national security. The critical Mwanahalisi newspaper was shut after publishing a letter on Monday from a reader containing “insults” against President John Magufuli …
Read More »Obama’s letter to Trump: On the need to ‘leave democracy strong’
Washington, United States | AFP | It is an elegant tradition: the outgoing US president leaves a letter for his successor in the aged oaken desk in the Oval Office, to be read upon his arrival. The letter left by Barack Obama for Donald Trump, revealed some seven months after …
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