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The Uganda mainstream Democratic Party (DP) headed by Nobert Mao is soon likely to join the Uganda opposition coalition arrangement called the Inter-Party Coalition (IPC) after the deputy DP spokesman John Kakande told journalists in Kampala today that the party is forming a committee to negotiate joining the coalition. Kakande says the party is […]
The Social Democratic Party has today joined the Inter party Coalition, a group of leading opposition political parties aimed at giving a joint challenge to President Yoweri Museveni’s National Resistance Movement in the 2011 general elections. SDP President Michael Mabikke who is the MP for Makindye East said his party had decided to support a […]
The Uganda opposition has launched a new opposition pressure group called the National Alliance for Free and Fair Elections (NAFFE) to campaign for electoral reforms and the disbandment of the Uganda Electoral Commission. The Uganda opposition has for long been advocating for the disbandment of the current Electoral commission arguing that it is partisan. The […]
Uganda outspoken women rights activist, Miria Matembe has defended ministers who were sleeping when the Uganda president Yoweri Museveni was delivering his State of the Nation Address. This comes after press reports recently revealed published pictures of some ministers that including the Uganda Prime Minister Prof. Apollo Nsibambi sleeping while the president was delivering the […]
In the next financial year 2010/2011 Uganda will be able to fund 75% of it annual budget from its own resources and only 25% of the budget will be funded by donors or Uganda’s development partners. In the budget which the Minister of Finance, Planning and Economic Development, Syda Bbumba, under the theme “Strategic priorities […]
THE REPUBLICC OF UGANDA BUDGET SPEECH for Financial Year 2010/2011 Theme: Strategic Priorities to Accelerate Growth, Employment and Socioeconomic Transformation for Prosperity. DEELIVERED AT THE MMEETING O F THE FIFTTH SESSIONN OF THE 8 PARRLIAMENTT OF UGANDA ON THUURSDAY, 10 JUNE, 2010 BY HONOURAABLE SYDAA N. M. BBUMBA (MP) MINNISTER OF FINANCE, PLANNINGG AND ECOONOMIC D […]
The wife of the Uganda Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) wife, Hon. Winnie Byanyima has been awarded the Uganda Heroes Nalubaale Medal for her contribution to the 1981 to 1986 NRA bush war struggle that brought President Yoweri Museveni and his current NRM government to power. This comes as a surprise because Banyima, currently, one of […]
The Uganda police has foiled the planned Uganda opposition planned demonstration in Kampala City today as a way of commemorating the National Heroes Day. The main National Heroes day celebrations are taking place in Luweero district with President Yoweri Museveni presiding as the chief guest. According to eye witnesses, the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) […]
Sudan International Defence Group has told the International Criminal Court to back off African politics and leave Africa to provide its own solutions to the political problems that it faces without any interference from the International Criminal Court. This comes at a time when the ICC’s prosecutor Moreno Ocampo has been demanding increasing powers of […]
Sudan International Defence Group, a Non Governmental Organisation has strongly criticised the International Criminal Court for insisting on arresting the president of Sudan Omar- El -Bashir for alleged genocide charges opened against him in the court. This comes at a time when there is topical debate amongst both the critics and sympathisers of the ICC on whether the ICC […]