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The National Coordinator for Emyooga Program, Ritah Namuwenge, has today, May 30, 2023, urged Resident District Commissioners (RDCs), Resident City Commissioners (RCCs), and District Internal Security Officers (DISOs) from Rwenzori and Bunyoro Regions to focus on and closely monitor the ongoing Emyooga program. The Parish Development Model (PDM) and Emyooga programs received top priority during a two-day workshop that the office of the President organized at the Miika Eco Resort Hotel in Hoima to train the RDCs, RCCs, and DISOs...

Uganda Airlines is set to host the 55th AFRAA Annual General Assembly and Summit event that will be held at Speke Resort Munyonyo from November 19th to 21st, 2023. Uganda Airlines CEO, Jeniffer Bamuturaki, said this will be no ordinary general summit as it will be exciting and engaging, with many learnings drawn from industry developments. She also pledged to open its doors of hospitality, warmth, and service to the delegates of the 55th AFRR-AGA. She pledged to focus on the...

Ugandan activist and founder of Makerere Community Church, Pastor Martin Ssempa has applauded President Yoweri Museveni for assenting to the Anti-Homosexuality Bill 2023 into Law. Ssempa who also refers to himself as ‘Gabriel Baaba Gwanga mujje eri yesu’ while addressing the press at National Theater on Monday, May 29, 2023, rallied Ugandans to support President Museveni against the incoming foreign intimidations, aid cut, and travel bans. He revealed that assenting of the bill into law will help protect Ugandan children and...

The Speaker of Parliament Anita Annet Among has been slapped with a travel ban to the US after President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni assented to the Anti-Homosexuality Bill into law on Monday, May 29, 2023. According to the letter addressed to the Speaker, from the Visa US embassy in Kampala, Uganda, the US has revoked her current Visas on information that came available after her last issuance. “As of May 12th 2023, you do not possess a valid visa to travel to...

𝐈𝐒𝐒𝐔𝐄 312 🄴🅅🄴🄽🄸🄽🄶 🄴🄳🄸🅃🄸🄾🄽 MAY 29, 2023 🇺🇬🇺🇬🇺🇬 🇺🇬 Government to sensitize Ugandans on the new Anti-Homosexuality Law 📌Government will embark on sensitizing Ugandans on the new Anti-Homosexuality Law. The Information and National Guidance Minister, Hon Chris Baryomunsi said Monday that many are misrepresenting the new law that President Museveni assented to. “The law does not say that if you’re a homosexual living in Uganda, you shall be arrested but it is only when you commit the acts of trying to promote it and recruiting...

𝐈𝐒𝐒𝐔𝐄 312 🄰🄵🅃🄴🅁🄽🄾🄾🄽 🄴🄳🄸🅃🄸🄾🄽 MAY 29, 2023 🇺🇬🇺🇬🇺🇬 🇺🇬  President Museveni assents to Anti-Homosexuality law 📌President Museveni has signed the Anti-Homosexuality Bill into law. Parliament earlier this month reassessed the Anti-Homosexuality Bill 2023 and passed it with amendments to four clauses as had been directed by the President. “President Museveni has executed his constitutional mandate as prescribed by Article 91(3) (a) of the 1995 Constitution  and assented to the Anti-Homosexuality Act, 2023,” Speaker of Parliament, Anita Among said in a tweet on Monday, adding that, "As...