His government has had to create routines and institutions that remind Ugandans of their recent history of brutality and killings ANALYSIS | DEREK R. PETERSON | President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni – Africa’s fourth-longest-serving head of state in 2023 – has cemented his place in history. He brought an end to two …
Read More »PICTORIAL: Pass out of 2,234 prison officers
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Museveni has presided over the pass out of 2,234 prison officers who successfully completed an 18-month training program. The new cohort comprises 200 cadet assistant superintendents, 318 principal officers, and 1,716 recruit wardens. Their addition brings the total number of prison officers …
Read More »MUSEVENI: Don’t allow strangers in churches, bars
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has advised parishioners and patrons not to allow people they don’t know to access their churches and bars respectively. Museveni’s advice also extended to hotels, lodges, and other rentals to ask for identification before allowing anybody to have access to their …
Read More »MUSEVENI: Resource exploitation breeds coups, wars in Africa
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Museveni has warned foreign states and multinationals that the continued exploitation of Africa’s resources with no visible returns is a recipe for political instability. Speaking at the just-ended Uganda-South Africa Trade and Investment Summit in Kampala, Museveni blamed the colonialists and neo-colonialists for …
Read More »Do not limit reconciliation process to Acholi only, leaders tell Museveni
Gulu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A section of leaders in the Acholi Sub-region has asked President Museveni to embark on a national truth-telling and reconciliation process to bring total healing in areas across the country where various atrocities have been committed under his regime. The call follows the President’s …
Read More »MUSEVENI: Commission of inquiry will unearth perpetrators of Apaa conflicts
Gulu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Museveni has reiterated that the best solution and medicine to the decade long conflict over Apaa land claimed by both Amuru and Adjumani districts is the Judicial Commission of Inquiry. The five-member commission of inquiry led by retired Chief Justice Bert Katurebe were …
Read More »Museveni meets UPDF, and DRC senior army officers over ADF
Kampala, Uganda | THE IDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni met with senior army officers from the Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) and the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo (FARDC) at State House Entebbe. During the meeting, President Museveni who is also the Commander In Chief of UPDF …
Read More »Museveni cautions UPDF officers against misusing retirement package
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni who is also the Commander in Chief of the Uganda People’s Defence Forces -UPDF has advised the retiring senior army officers to invest their retirement package wisely. He said that the retirement should not be regarded as becoming redundant. “This is …
Read More »Besigye rules out gun violence against Museveni
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Dr. Kiizza Besigye has urged against the use of guns to topple President Museveni and his NRM party from power. The four-time former Presidential candidate says that it is useless to use violence against Museveni. He said Museveni who used the gun to assume power …
Read More »Museveni pardons former PS Jimmy Lwamafa, 199 other inmates
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Museveni has pardoned Jimmy Lwamafa, the former Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Public Service, and 199 other inmates. According to the Uganda Prison Services Spokesperson, Frank Baine, Lwamafa has been pardoned on account of old age and good behavior. “He is over 65 years …
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