UGANDA NEWS

Uganda Joins BRICS: Col Katabazi Highlights Economic Opportunities and Shift from Western Influence

Col Emmy Katabazi, the Deputy Director General of the  Internal Security Organisation (ISO) has highlighted the economic benefits that await Uganda from being a part of BRICS, pointing out...

Inside the Fate of Three Sacked KCCA Officials

Three senior officials from the Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) are facing serious legal troubles following the tragic...

Uganda Is Set To Launch First Mass Oil Production Come 2025

The Minister of State for Economic Monitoring, Rose Lilly Akello, has confirmed that Uganda is headed toward having...

Gov’t Boosts Luwero Agriculture with Tractors, Seedlings, and Livestock Support

The Government in collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry, and Fisheries, has provided three tractors, 60,000...

Adjumani Health Officials Raise Alarm Over Broken Incinerators and Medical Waste

Health officials at Dzaipi Health Centre III in Adjumani District have expressed serious concerns about a broken incinerator,...

LIKE IT OR NOT, PRESIDENT MUSEVENI IS AN UNMATCHABLE GENIUS

By Moses Baguma The 2020/1 President Yoweri Museveni campaign to retain his seat has been the most unusual Ugandans have witnessed yet. Unlike the other presidential candidates in the race, President Museveni has steered clear of huge rallies during his campaigns. It is not that crowds have refused to attend Museveni rallies, those who are impartial will think. President Museveni has asked them to stay at home and save their lives because he values their vote and lives. Museveni’s recent campaign style...

Government Should Intervene And Act On Shoddy NGOs Funding Opposition Violence.

Civil society organizations and Non government organizations have always been used by foreign agencies to destabilize African countries and Uganda in particular. Whenever an NGO has been investigated, revelations have shown evidence of financing for illicit activities aimed at discrediting government. During the most recent riots in Kampala, rioters where being facilitated with drinks and eats between their running battles with security. This is proof that the riots were not spontaneous and that their actions were premeditated and therefore criminal....

Revelation: Gay Rights Groups Sponsoring Bobi Wine and NUP

Its not new for foreign non-governmental organizations to sponsor political opposition in Uganda. Indeed, many have done this openly and have had public manifestos alluding to this fact. However, the nature and intention of these groups has always been clear and aimed at promoting democratic competitiveness and promotion of human rights in the country. Others of recent have been LGBT rights promotion organizations based in Europe and America that have been critical of the treatment of queer people in...

Lies won’t lead Amuriat to victory

Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) presidential candidate, Patrick Oboi Amuriat while campaigning in Teso region last week told far too many lies against National Resistance Movement presidential candidate Yoweri Museveni, and government in the desperate hope to make Teso his political block merely because he is a homeboy, which should not go unchallenged. Among many of the lies were that President Museveni has deliberately impoverished, stole cattle, inflicted war, not built infrastructure and denied lucrative jobs and businesses to the...

Electoral Commission Warns Defiant Covidiot Presidential Candidates

The Chairman Electoral Commission Justice Simon Byabakama has requested Security agencies implementing Covid19 directives to arrest any presidential and parliamentary candidates  defying Covid19 standard operating procedures (SOPs) by holding processions and staging  public gatherings in the wake of  rising COVID19 community infections. In a press statement released by the Commission on  the conduct of candidates during Campaigns for 2021 General Elections which commenced on Monday 9th November 2020, Byabakama expressed concern that several candidates have defied the guidelines and SOPs. “The...

Old Is Gold: Dear Ugandans, Liberal Americans Just Chose a 77-Year Old as Their Next President!

President Museveni has quashed his critics who are advancing age as a factor to discredit him from being the visionary leader who has taken Uganda from the dogs, and will still do when he takes the mantle of leading Ugandans for the next five years. President Museveni has already taken to scientific elections (due to the Corona Virus pandemic) in which  he is  seeking to lead Ugandans once again come the 2021 general election and has promised to secure the...