As farmers return to garden and are reporting army worm, government says that the army worm to stay in farmers gardens for some time as the researchers are developing scientific biological methods to deal with the persistent army worm. The minister of Agriculture Vincent Bamulangaki Sempijja said that as government intensifies ways of stopping army […]
The Minister of Defense Dr. Chrispus Kiyonga has warned government on creation of new districts in Kasese region to avert tension and killings in this region. This was during a meeting with the parliamentary committee on defense and Internal Affairs were he said that creation of new districts is one of the causes of chaos in […]
Parliament has approved a loan, authorizing Government to borrow USD 84.2million from the African Development Bank to finance Phase 2 of the Market and Agriculture Trade Improvement Programme (MATIP 2). The programme aims at tackling market infrastructure development, value addition and trade facilitation. It will be implemented over a five year period in nine municipalities […]
The National Resistance Movement (NRM) looser in the recently concluded Kasese district woman MP by elections, Hajati Rehemah Muhindo has declared that she is going to quite active politics and concentrates on her businesses. Ms Rehema quits active politics after she miserably lost to Forum for Democratic Change’s (FDC) strong iron lady, Nalongo Winfred […]
The Democratic Party (DP) has congratulated Forum for Democratic Party (FDC) upon winning the recent woman MP by-elections in Kasese. The Kasese woman MP race was won by FDC’s Winnie Kiiza on Wednesday last week. Ms Winnie trounced both DP’s Rosemary Masika and NRM’s Rehema Muhindo. The Secretary General of DP, Mathias Nsubuga says that […]
“I usually don’t want to comment about the wrong stories written about myself (Col. Kiiza Besigye). But the one in last week’s Kamunye went over board,” Col. Kiiza Besigye has said. He says that he had wanted to ignore it. His friends and political advisers called him yesterday evening asking him to tell them […]
The political forces have been building up since Odo Tayebwa, the FDC man won Bushenyi-Ishaka axis. The seismic forces sent NRM reeling backwards and almost sank the party off the shores of Lake Victoria in Bukoto south. Clearly something is amiss. The rigging and terror machinery was no longer a vote “winner”. The people had […]
The news that came on Wednesday from Kasese showed that opposition FDC chief whip in parliament, Winnie Kiiza had enjoyed a comfortable win after sweeping Kasese municipality, and Bwera Town council, a constituency of the so called “Emanzi ya Kasese (deep waters of Kasese).” Defence Minister, Dr. Chrispus Kiyonga (Bukonzo West MP) comes from […]
Jubilations are the order of the day across the towns and villages of Kasese district following the landslide victory of FDC’s Winnie Kiiza in Wednesday’s parliamentary victory. The people of Kasese on Wednesday spoken through their votes by voting NRM candidate, Rehema Muhindo, sending a signal and a vote of no confidence in the […]
Voter bribery, intimidation of supporters and arrests of opposition members marred Kasese district woman MP by elections on Wednesday. There was heavy military and police deployment in the district. But the voter turn up was low at most of the poling stations and a number of voting irregularities were reported. Much of the vote […]