Corruption in Uganda still remains a big challenge in all sectors including Health especially in recruiting Health workers. During the launch of the report on transparency and accountability in the health sector, Budadili west Member of parliament Nandala Mafabi noted that a hospital of about 100 patients employs only five workers because the management was […]
The Uganda Tourism Board has warned that the continued walks to work protest are badly affecting the tourism sector. The country managed to collect 600 million dollars from last year’s tourism activities but with the continued walk to work protest that have entered their fifth week are stopping tourists from visiting the country for fear […]
The government of Uganda is set to implement the Parliamentary resolution to have the Uganda Communications Commission and the Uganda Broadcasting Council fully merged to ensure smooth operations of the sector. The two regulatory bodies have recently evolved with the new trends of technological advancement. It is however quite hard to follow activities and requirements […]
Members of Parliament have declined to extend the cabinet term of office after the government Attorney General Kiddu Makubiya failed to rightly cite the clause for extension of the ministers office. The MPs say President Yoweri Museveni is being sworn in on 12th May 2011 and he should appoint a new cabinet as soon as […]
Kenya Airways has apologised to Uganda opposition leader Dr. Kizza Besigye over failing to fly him to Entebbe Uganda early Thursday morning after he was blocked when he had checked in to come to Uganda on the on KQ 410 airline from Nairobi. The Group Managing Director and CEO of Kenya Airways Titus Naikuni says […]
Government has rejected claims that it blocked the return of FDC leader Dr. Kiiza Besigye from Kenya where he has been receiving treatment. The minister of information and National Guidance Kabakumba Masiko told parliament that Besigye is free to return to Uganda and he will be in the country and time. She said that government […]
The President of Uganda, Yoweri Museveni of the National Resistance Movement (NRM) party has said that he cannot share power with the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) party President, Retired Col. Dr. Kiiza Besigye. While talking to the journalists at his country home in Rwakitura district the President said that he can only share power […]
The International Criminal Court (ICC) has threatened to arrest Sudanese president Gen. Omar-El-Bashir after it emerged that president Museveni had invited him to attend his swearing-in ceremony on Thursday at Kololo. According to the Uganda Coalition on ICC coordinator Freda Apio, they have received information that government invited Bashir to Kampala. Opio described this as […]
The Speaker of Parliament Edward Kiwanuka Ssekandi has kept his cards close to his chest in the race for the speakership. Having served as speaker for the 7th and 8th Parliament respectively, Ssekandi faces stiff competition from his deputy Rebecca Kadaga, should he decide to go for another term. On why he is not campaigning, […]
The politics of Uganda has been characterised by reactionary ideology (not progressive, not patriotic) before colonialism, during colonialism and after colonialism. Before colonialism, following the collapse of the Bachwezi Empire around 1500 AD, this area was being dominated by small kingdoms and chiefdoms: Bunyoro, Buganda, Ankole, Tooro, Rwanda, Burundi, Karagwe, the chiefdoms of Buhaya, Busoga, […]