COMMENT: By Moses Mulumba Museveni’s Nakawuka moment could be an opportunity to revisit our health governance The country recently witnessed President Yoweri Museveni ‘order’ the redeployment of health workers at Nakawuka Health Center III. In his order, the President seemed to have concurred with the communities on fighting non-functional health …
Read More »Bujagali sale goes bad
Bujagali sale goes bad: President Yoweri Museveni’s push to cut the cost of power from the 250 MW Bujagali dam has put him at the centre of a fight with investors and technocrats at the Energy Ministry over the sale of a stake in the dam project writes Haggai Matsiko …
Read More »Africa adopts Museveni’s paper on development bottlenecks
African leaders to adopt President Museveni’s paper as blue-print to guide continent on development African leaders have agreed to use President Yoweri Museveni’s paper on bottlenecks facing Africa’s development as a blue print to guide the continent. President Museveni’s presentation on Friday at the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) meeting in …
Read More »Detailed judgment in the Uganda Presidential Election Petition
The Supreme court has today given its detailed reasons for their ruling in the Uganda Presidential Election Petition No 1 of 2016 and identified 10 key reforms that it wants the Attorney General to implement ahead of the next elections. “The Attorney General must follow up the recommendations made by this court with the other …
Read More »To sack or not to sack absentee health workers
President Yoweri Museveni’s decision on August 3 to remove all health staff at Nakawuka Health Centre in Mpumudde village, Wakiso district over alleged poor service delivery is once again shinning a spotlight on a dark part of the sector, writes The Independent Team. The President acted against the 14 staff after …
Read More »Kayihura in trouble over brutality
Will Museveni back or sack police chief? On July 12, dozens of police officers assisted by militia goons pounced on jubilating supporters of de facto opposition leader Kizza Besigye in downtown Kampala city and clobbered them with sticks and metallic cables, and even run over one man with a police …
Read More »VIDEO: Museveni urges Ugandan athletes to show national pride in Brazil
THE Pride of Uganda is in the hands of 21 athletes who represent the country in the summer Olympics that officially opened in Rio on Friday . Those were the sentiments of President Yoweri Museveni s as he flagged off the 2nd batch of athletes to Brazil. The President urged …
Read More »Museveni tours Chad oil facilities
President Yoweri Museveni started his two-day visit to Chad by touring their oil facilities on Sunday. In N’Djamena for the swearing-in ceremony of President Idriss Deby to his fifth term in office, Museveni jumped on a helicopter to inspect the country’s oil refinery. Over 15 heads of state are expected to …
Read More »VIDEO: Thousands Brave the Imbalu Knife
President Museveni has challenged Bamasaba Cultural leaders to abandon the practice of using a single knife on different imbalu candidates in order to check disease that are caused by blood transfusion. In the speech, read by the second deputy prime minister and minister for East African affairs Kirunda Kivejinja, the …
Read More »Museveni flags off Ugandan team
PHOTOGRAPHS: President Yoweri Museveni has today flagged off Uganda’s team to the Olympics. The President reiterated the values of sports and asked the team to observe discipline. The athletes at the function at State House comprised 14 athletes who fly out to Rio tomorrow. The first batch of boxers and swimmers is already in …
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