Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda has signed a hosting agreement and a memorandum of understanding with African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) to host their East African regional office starting next month. The announcement was made after a meeting between leading officials of the bank and President Yoweri Museveni at State …
Read More »NRM party leaders in Mbale disown “Nailed” supporter
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The National Resistance Movement-NRM party leadership in Mbale district has disowned a man who claims to have been nailed in the mouth for composing a song praising President, Yoweri Museveni. It came after Isaac Katoogo alias Ambassador wa Yesu, a resident of Kiteeso cell …
Read More »President Museveni hails role of Public-Private Partnership conference
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Museveni has highly commended the private sector for their idea of supplementing government’s efforts in the development of both economic and social infrastructure. He said the two areas form the main core foundation of the country’s economy. The President was officially opening …
Read More »Museveni cornered on Shs 446 bn oil money
Will he flee or fight oil firms? Kampala, Uganda | RONALD MUSOKE | President Yoweri Museveni’s plan to get Shs 446 billion from Uganda’s Petroleum Fund to finance part of the budget deficit this year may have been dashed when Tullow Oil refused to cough up Shs 600 billion in …
Read More »Arua SACCO reminds President Museveni of Sh350m pledge
Aura, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Members of Arua City Savings and Cooperative Credit Society have demanded for the fulfillment of 350 million shillings presidential pledge. The Sacco has 5,000 members spread in the districts of Arua Zombo, Pakwach, Yumbe Koboko and Arua Municipality. The pledge was made in 2017 …
Read More »International Court hearings set in Uganda vs Congo case
The International Court to hold public hearings on the question of reparations in DRC vs Uganda case The Hague, Netherlands | THE INDEPENDENT | The International Court of Justice (ICJ), the principal judicial organ of the United Nations, will in November hold public hearings on the question of reparations in the …
Read More »Sam Kutesa to lead Ugandan delegation to Rwanda
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs Sam Kutesa will lead Uganda’s delegation to the first meeting with Rwanda as per the recent Luanda memorandum of understanding aimed at resolving ongoing disputes between the two nations that has led Kigali to closing the border. According to a …
Read More »10 police officers probed for ignoring alerts on Nagirinya’s kidnap
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Up to 10 police officers are under probe for failing to prevent the murder of social worker, Maria Nagirinya and her part-time driver, Ronald Kitayimbwa. The two were kidnapped on August 28 outside her gate in Lungujja, on the outskirts of Kampala and their bodies …
Read More »MUSEVENI: Comment on recent crime incidences
COMMENT | Yoweri Kaguta Museveni | Condolences on the killing of the young Bazukulu Nagirinya and Kitayimbwa by the criminals as the two were at the gate of the former’s residence at 23:49 hours on the night of August 28th, 2019. Also condolences on the murder of Joshua Rushegyera and …
Read More »MURDERS: Museveni orders police to fire CCTV team
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Museveni has fired manning the CCTV camera centres for failing to act fast following the recent murders in the capital Kampala. “The officer at Kibumbiro Police post- Busega says that she tried to contact the 999 but the 999 was …
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