Tag Archives: Uganda

How the space of the civil societies has been shrinking Kampala, Uganda | PATRICIA AKANKWATSA | On Feb, 03 the country woke up to the news that had President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni ordered the Ministry of Finance to suspend all activities of the Democratic Governance Facility (DGF) for financing subversive …

Why not all of them, parents ask Kampala, Uganda | RONALD MUSOKE | How to take back Uganda’s 15 million learners back to school safely amidst a rampaging COVID-19 pandemic? That continues to be a sensitive subject for the government, parents, learners and health experts. Almost one year on since …

🔴 Eastern 144 🔴 Western 135 🔴 Northern 127 🔴 Central 105 Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Eastern Uganda has more Members of Parliament compared to the other regions. The current composition of Parliament gives the eastern region a total of 144 legislators followed by the western region which has …

He was not a puppet on a string, judges rule | THE INDEPENDENT | On Feb.04, the International Criminal Court (ICC) found Dominic Ongwen guilty for a total of 61 comprising crimes against humanity and war crimes, committed in northern Uganda. Ongwen was found guilty for attacks against the civilian …

How the Western world has decided our future for us and it seeks to impose it on us THE LAST WORD | ANDREW M. MWENDA | President Yoweri Museveni’s suspension of the Democratic Governance Facility (DGF) has caused uproar. This has been a big programme by Uganda’s “development partners” aimed …

So why did Bobi Wine go there? Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | On Feb.01 former presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine filed a petition at the Supreme Court challenging the 2021 election results that declared the incumbent President Yoweri Museveni winner. In the petition, Bobi Wine who ran …

📌 February 6 -7, 2021 – 34th AU SUMMIT & AUC elections Addis Ababa, Ethiopia | THE INDEPENDENT | Dr. Monique Nsanzabaganwa, the deputy governor of the national bank of Rwanda, has been elected Vice Chairperson of the African Union Commission. Nsanzabaganwa,50, got 42 votes in the final round of voting today from …

  Kampala, Uganda | FLAVIA NASSAKA | Public Health experts have cautioned that it may not be possible for Uganda to receive its initial doses of the COVID-19 vaccine by the end of the month and start vaccinating people in March, as earlier stated by President Yoweri Museveni. Prof Freddie …

📌 February 6 -7, 2021 – 34th AU SUMMIT & AUC elections Addis Ababa, Ethiopia | THE INDEPENDENT | The African Union (AU) will from midday today host its first virtual summit in Addis Ababa at which DRC’s Felix Antoine Tshisekedi will take over as chairperson, and elections of the AU Commission …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Forty five Ugandan start-ups will each get a budget boost of over sh140million to enable them refine and complete their innovations. The 45 were picked by the selectors – The National ICT Initiatives Support Program (NIISP) – as having the best chance of hitting …