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UPDF uses ushs2.5b to organize Tarehe Sita

There are reports being circulated in town that UPDF budgeted 2.5 billion shillings to organise the 31st Tarehe Sita week. The week is marked annually in remembrance of the first armed attack when Yoweri Museveni and his NRA rebels launched a guerrilla war on February 6, 1981. The climax of the week is always February […]

Museveni, Ban Ki Moon return from Ethiopia

Uganda President Yoweri Museveni and the UN Secretary General, Ban Ki Moon are among the world leaders who have left Addis Ababa, Ethiopia after attending the 18th African Union summit. Others who have left Ethiopiaare Benin’s President Thomas Boni Yayi, and Libyan interim Prime Minister Abderrahim el-Keib. Over 40 heads of states attended the summit. […]

Uganda to open embassy in Ramallah, Palestine

Ugandais to open an embassy in Ramallah inPalestine. The development was recently agreed upon byUgandapresident Yoweri Museveni and thePalestinehead of state, Sheikh Mahmood Abas. Abas is a close friend of President Museveni. And in fact Abas visitedUgandain April last year and held closed door talks with Museveni. LaterUgandastatehouse officials issued a press statement that indicated […]

Museveni gives President Paul Kagame medals

He might not be a Ugandan but President Paul Kagame ofRwandawill on Thursday be given liberation medals in Uganda. The president of Uganda, Gen. Yoweri Museveni is recognizing Kagame for his role during the National Resistance Army (NRA) liberation struggle. However many people in Uganda and across the country have asked Museveni where he did […]

Museveni roots for East Africa Community political federation

President Yoweri Museveni has reaffirmed the need for the political federation of East Africa as one of the avenues for partner states to equally benefit from integration. Addressing Members of the East African Legislative Assembly at their fifth meeting in Kampala, the Uganda President warned that economic integration alone can create disequilibrium with countries not […]

Tamale Mirundi insists Type of federalism Buganda advocates is impossible

President Yoweri Museveni’s Press Secretary, Tamale Mirundi continues to shock his fellow Baganda. Mirundi has recently been preaching that the type of federalism the kingdom of Buganda is demanding is not only impossible but unworkable. The acerbic Mirundi says that it would be a fraud if Buganda ever gets full federal status it demands. Mirundi […]

RDC’s assigned to follow up corrupt public officials

  A controversy in assignments has risen up between Inspector General of Government’s (IGG) office and the resident district commissioners across the country. Under Ugandan laws it is the Inspector General of Government (IGG) mandated to follow up the corrupt public servants and bring them to book. However the president of Uganda , Gen. Yoweri […]

The president of Uganda, Gen. Yoweri Museveni wooed me out of DP

  Kampala former Mayor, Hajji Nasser Sebaggala has revealed that president Museveni used him to fight DP promising to make him great in the country’s politics. In a shocking revelation to his supporters on Saturday at his Bugolobi home, Sebaggala said he was not happy with president Museveni. “He used me to fight DP and […]

UPDF to recruit 300 youth in Karamoja into LDU

UPDF is set to recruit a total of 300 youth from Karamoja region as top up to Local Defense Unit personnel. The 300 will be recruited from the 4 districts that are part of 3rd Division i.e Moroto, Napak, Nakapiripirit and Amudat while Kaboong and Kotido will be considered under 5 Division. The exercise is […]

President Yoweri Museveni asked to get serous on corruption

Members of Parliament have called on President Yoweri Museveni to take stringent actions government officials cited in the rampant corruption scandals instead of waiting for parliament’s intervention. The MPs on the parliamentary Public Accounts Committee say that is currently investigating the misappropriation of US $ 14 million given to the government of Burundi from Uganda […]