Museveni

Museveni promises MP Beatrice Anywar a cabinet post

  Soon Soroti Woman MP Beatrice Anywar could be named one of the cabinet ministers in the National Resistance Movement government. A senior source at Statehouse told us last evening that the Soroti Woman MP (Anywar) was already in the good books of president Museveni and that Ugandans should not get surprised when the president […]

NRM, Museveni split over Uganda’s market catch phrase

NRM, Museveni split over Uganda’s market catch phrase

Uganda President, Gen. Kaguta Museveni has directed the Ministry of Tourism to market Uganda as the ‘Pearl of Africa’ at both locally and internationally in efforts to boost tourism. A source that attended a meeting Museveni held with the Uganda tourism officials tells us that the president argued that the phrase would prevent other countries […]

Museveni threatens to punish media houses for supporting Muslims

President Museveni has threatened to deal with media houses that fan and incite violence between the two rivaling Muslim factions inUganda. The two rivaling Muslim factions are the Kibuli Mosque based faction headed by Sheikh Zubair Kayongo and the Old Kampala Muslim leadership led by the Mufti of Uganda, Sheikh Shaban Mubajje. Museveni says that […]

Museveni asks Supreme Mufti Kayongo to dine with Mufti Mubajje

President Museveni has asked the Supreme Mufti of the breakaway Muslim faction based at Kibuli mosque, Sheikh Zubair Kayongo and the Mufti of Uganda, Sheikh Shaban Mubajje to resolve their leadership wrangles and conflicts. The prevailing leadership wrangles and conflicts between Mubajje and Kayongo have rocked the Muslim community in Uganda for the last three […]

UPC: Amama, Sam Kutesa about to flee

The traditional adage in Luganda says that when people are advising the children from well to do families, the children of the poor have to keep listening. The president of Uganda Peoples Congress Dr. Olara Otunu has advised supporters of the ruling political party in Uganda to stop mistreating people. He says that when the […]

Intelligence report asks Museveni to create jobs for youths to reduce their involvement in demonstrations

An intelligence report by the Chieftaincy of Military intelligence (CMI) has advised president Museveni and his government to create more jobs for unemployed youths in order to reduce their involvement in strikes, crimes and demonstrations. The report signed by one of the directors of CMI in charge of economic monitoring indicates that Uganda/government stands to […]

Ugandans petition ICC to probe Museveni over human rights violations

Ugandans petition ICC to probe Museveni over human rights violations It seems Ugandan president Gen. Yoweri Museveni is soon becoming the hunted. Sections of Ugandans have written a secret letter to the international Criminal Court (ICC) asking it to probe the increasing human rights abuse in Uganda reportedly by president Museveni using police and other […]

Civilians besiege Buganda Road Court

People in their hundreds have besieged Buganda Road Court premises. The people stormed the court premises to hear by themselves the charges the government accuses opposition leader Col. Kiiza Besigye, Kampala Lord Mayor, Erias Lukwago, Kampala woman MP, Nabillah Sempala and FDC woman leader, Ingrid Turinawe. The government accuses Besigye and group of organising an […]

Civilians besiege Buganda Road Court

  People in their hundreds have besieged Buganda Road Court premises. The people stormed the court premises to hear by themselves the charges the government accuses opposition leader Col. Kiiza Besigye, Kampala Lord Mayor, Erias Lukwago, Kampala woman MP, Nabillah Sempala and FDC woman leader, Ingrid Turinawe. The government accuses Besigye and group of organising […]

UK Minister asks Museveni to curb police violence on civilians

  It seems police violence and brutality on members of opposition parties has caught the international eye. This is because the United Kingdom (UK) minister in charge of Africa Henry Bellingham has asked president Museveni to curb the police violence on civilians. Bellingham is in Uganda’s capital city Kampala on an official visit. He jetted […]

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