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What next as Museveni’s cadre judges win? Kampala, Uganda | AGATHER ATUHAIRE | On Aug 18 President Yoweri Museveni appointed a new Deputy Chief Justice to replace DCJ Steven Kavuma who retires this month and elevated two other justices from Court Of Appeal to Supreme Court. The DCJ designate pending …

VIDEO: NRM activists in Arua march for removal of age limit Kampala,Uganda | NTV UGANDA | A cross section of people from West Nile region yesterday matched on the streets of Arua town calling for the lifting of article 102b of the constitution to extend the age beyond 75 for a …

Kampala, Uganda |GODFREY SSALI | Members of Parliament from Mubende District have accused the NRM led government of taking the people for granted over illegal evictions. The group of four out of the seven area MPs led by Bukuya MP Dr. Micheal Bukenya said that they have mobilized 150 MPs who …

Kampala, Uganda  | GODFREY SSALI |  The National Resistance Movement (NRM) candidate Rose-Lilly Akello has been declared the winner of the Kaabong Woman Member of Parliament seat. Akello was declared the winner of Monday’s by-election by the returning officer for Kaabong District Sarah Iyolu after garnering 21,814 votes out of 43,965 …

  THIS WEEK: When Mushega asked Museveni to retire  Kampala, Uganda | THIS WEEK | On Aug.19, President Museveni attended a wedding reception of Maj. John Kazoora’s son and Amanya Mushega’s daughter in Kirekka,a Kampala Suburb. While there, Mushega who brought it in a rather jovial way asked the president to …

Col Ibrahim Abiriga is the MP for Arua Municipality who is popularly known as “yellow man”; a self-proclaimed diehard supporter of President Yoweri Museveni. He has been in the limelight for campaigning to lifting of the constitutional age limit of 75-years to allow Museveni to qualify to run again in …

Why are big guns supporting Muntu against Besigye’s Amuriat? Kampala, Uganda | AGATHER ATUHAIRE | In the race to lead Uganda’s biggest opposition party, FDC, members are seeing a side of the incumbent, Gen. Mugisha Muntu, which they have not known before.  At his nomination on Aug.14 at the party …

A new Mulago arises: The challenge the new hospital will face and what can be done to protect it from Uganda’s politics THE LAST WORD | Andrew M. Mwenda |  Last week, I visited the new specialised maternal and neonatal center being constructed at Mulago Hospital. With a built up …

Kampala, Uganda | GODFREY SSALI |  The ruling National Resistance Movemen (NRM) Parliamentary Caucus resolved to set up a committee chaired by the Vice President Edward Ssekandi to advise on amendments to land laws. This was revealed by the Government Chief Whip Ruth Nankabirwa (Kiboga) who was flanked by the …

Kampala, Uganda | GODFREY SSALI |  The chairperson of the Parliamentary and Legal Affairs committee Jacob Markson Oboth has warned his colleagues against expressing their opinion on the land bill that seeks to amend article 26 of the constitution. Oboth (MP West Budama) said that though MPs have the right …