How Besigye’s failure to inspire Ugandans out of Museveni’s failures led to Bobi Wine’s narrow ethnic base THE LAST WORD | Andrew M. Mwenda | The government of President Yoweri Museveni is old and exhausted. It has no zest for anything new or imaginative. Lacking its own project of national transformation, it now …
Read More »Museveni promotes nine Police officers to second highest rank
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Museveni has promoted nine police officers to Senior Commissioner of Police(SCP), the second-highest rank in the force. Those promoted are Martin Amoru, Ubaldo Bamunoba, Beata Chelimo, Dr John Kamya, Elias Kassirabo, Franklin Kugonza, Fenny Kyomukama, Bazil Mugisha and Venis Baguma Tumuhimbise. All the …
Read More »President Museveni’s take on economic growth and infrastructure development
Museveni also boasted about the country’s industrialisation exploits, with factories he said now standing at 226 and over 303 waiting to open Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Museveni is content with the economy’s progress, which he said recovered from a nosedive during the COVID-19 pandemic, and is poised …
Read More »Time to get out of Somalia
Why UPDF, the AU and Western powers should let Al Shabab take over power in Somalia THE LAST WORD | Andrew M. Mwenda | Last week, Al Shabab militants made a devastating attack on a UPDF base in Somalia. They claimed to have killed 138 of our soldiers and taken many more hostage. …
Read More »Museveni promotes five Prison officers to rank of ACGP, 182 others
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Museveni has promoted five prison officers to the highest rank of Assistant Commissioner General of Prisons (ACGP). Museveni has also promoted 182 others between the ranks of Assistant Superintendent of Prisons (ASP) to Senior Commissioner of Prisons-SCP. Those promoted to ACGP include John …
Read More »Muhakanizi to be accorded official funeral
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Museveni has ordered that Keith Muhakanizi be accorded an official funeral. According to Pascal Kwesiga, a Communication Advisor in the Office of the Prime Minister, President Museveni ordered that their office coordinates with the family of Muhakanizi and have his body repatriated back …
Read More »Pastors in Jinja hold protest, task president to assent to Anti-Gay Bill
Jinja, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Pastors in Jinja under their umbrella body of Christian Leaders Fellowship-CLF, on Saturday led a peaceful protest and asked President Yoweri Museveni, to assent to the recently passed Anti-Homosexuality Bill. While leading a peaceful protest across different streets in Jinja city, the pastors argued that, …
Read More »Homosexuality Bill, 2023
Why President Yoweri Museveni may not sign it into law now COVER STORY | RONALD MUSOKE & AGATHER ATUHAIRE | On Tuesday, March 21, Uganda’s Parliament, for the second time in nine years, passed a law that criminalizes homosexuality in Uganda. The first law was passed in December 2013 but was …
Read More »Museveni warns public servants against embezzling PDM funds
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Museveni has called for harsh punishment of public servants involved in the embezzlement of Parish Development Model – PDM funds. Museveni made the call while delivering his address on matters of national importance to Members of Parliament at Kololo Independence Grounds in Kampala. …
Read More »President Museveni to address Parliament
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Museveni is scheduled to address Parliament next week, Speaker Anita Among has revealed. In her communication during the plenary sitting on Thursday, 09 March 2023, Among said that the President will address the House on Thursday, 16 March 2023 at 2.00 pm. “He …
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