As the one week shaky ceasefire seems to hold on in Juba, South Sudan, African leaders sitting at an AU summit in Kigali on Sunday agreed to re-enforce the UN-Mission with a regional force under IGAD if they are to save lives and pacify Juba. IGAD called on the UN Security Council to give it […]
With a few days to the FDC delegate’s conference, latest information from the party indicates that the party does not have enough money for the conference. Party spokesman, Wafula Oguttu says that the party needs over 250million shillings for the conference. Wafula says the conference may be shifted from Namboole if the party fails to […]
At least 15 Heads of state from Africa have confirmed their attendance of the 50 years of independence cerebrations on 9th October. The delegates include Dr Boni Yayi from Benin, Joyce Banda of Malawi, Rwanda’s Paul Kagame, South Sudan’s Salva Kiir and Tanzania’s Jakaya kikwete. The others are Pierre Nkurunziza of Burundi, DR Congo’s Joseph […]
Leader of opposition in parliament who is also Budadiri west MP, Nathan Nandala Mafabi is currently in Tooro sub region from Kamwenge where he was last week courting the support of FDC delegates to vote him party president in November this year. Mafabi assured the FDC delegates in Tooro that within the 20 months of […]
It is not clear whether the leader of opposition in parliament Nandala Mafabi is trying to woo the Democratic Party (DP) supporters into his Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) party ranks. But this Budadiri west MP in Uganda’s ninth parliament on Friday 31st August met FDC and DP supporters from Wakiso District at Wakiso FDC […]
The Inter Parliamentary Union (IPU) delegates currently in Uganda for an IPU conference have held a closed door meeting with the leaders of Uganda Young Democrats. The meeting left the government puzzled because president Museveni could not imagine IPU officials could hold a closed door meeting in Kampala. The venue for the meeting was […]
The coordinators of Activists for Change (A4C) have resolved to refuse to put on hold their activities during the period when the parliament of Uganda would be hosting the Inter -Parliamentary Union assembly. Sources within A4C told this informer that this would be their right time to show the dignitaries visiting Uganda for the meeting […]
Uganda Peoples Congress (UPC) members have got 800 million shillings from the party members in the diaspora. The sources in UPC have told our news desk that it is going to be used to petition the high court asking it to direct Otunnu to call the UPC delegates conference. We hear Otunnu has been declining […]
A delegation of UYD activists arrived in Kenyan capital Nairobi on Tuesday evening and later held a two hour closed door meeting with Kenyan premier, Raila Odinga. The delegation of Uganda ’s young politicians held their meeting at Raila’s apartment in Nairobi , according to sources in Kenya . It should be remembered that when […]
The Parliament of Uganda will host the 126th Inter Parliamentary Union meeting from March 31 to April 4th, 2012 in Kampala. Uganda Speaker of Parliament Rebecca Kadaga tells us that Uganda Parliament is ready to receive the over 1500 delegates from 160 countries during the inter parliament union. Ms Kadaga says that even all Ugandans […]