Hoima, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has reaffirmed his government’s commitment to working with Uganda’s traditional kingdoms in promoting socio-economic development and cultural preservation. He made the remarks while presiding over the 31st Empango (coronation) anniversary of His Royal Highness Gafabusa Solomon Iguru I, the Omukama …
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Hoima, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Hundreds of the Bunyoro Kitara Kingdom subjects have this morning participated in the Empango run. The marathon is one of the pre-activities to commemorate Omukama Solomon Gafabusa Iguru’s 31st coronation anniversary. Flagging off this year’s run on Saturday at the Kingdom chambers, Andrew Byakutaga, …
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Hoima, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Sam Mayanja, the Lands State Minister, has intervened in a land dispute affecting over 20,000 residents in Kabaale Sub-county, Hoima District, who are facing the threat of forceful eviction from their ancestral land. The affected residents hail from the five villages of Ngemwa, Nyakasinini, Kigaaga B, …
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Hoima, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Hoima Sugar Limited has utilized six out of the nine square miles that they leased from the Bunyoro Kitara Kingdom. The company leased close to 22 square miles of the contested Bugoma central forest reserve land from the Bunyoro-Kitara Kingdom for sugarcane growing for 99 …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A group of Banyoro under their umbrella Mubende-Bunyoro Committee have petitioned the Omukama of Bunyoro Kitara, Solomon Gafabusa Iguru demanding to secede from his kingdom. Mubende Bunyoro Committee is a pressure group comprising Banyoro nationalists established in 1918 to fight for the return of Omukama Kabalega …
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Kikuube, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Kikuube District Security Committee has ordered more than 300 squatters on part of the land Hoima sugar limited leased from Bunyoro Kitara Kingdom in Bugoma forest to vacate with immediate effect. The affected are part of more than 20,000 people who encroached on part of …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Dr. Solomon Gafabusa Agutamba Rukirabasaija Iguru, the Omukama of Bunyoro Kitara Kingdom has warned the initiators of the Bugungu cultural institution to stop destabilizing his kingdom. It comes as the members of the Bugungu community in Bullisa district are in final preparations to install their cultural …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Hoima Sugar Limited is on the spotlight for allegedly breaching the National Environmental Management Authority-NEMA guidelines issued to the company. The company leased close to 22 square miles of the contested Bugoma Central Forest Reserve land from the Bunyoro-Kitara Kingdom for sugarcane growing for 99 years. …
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Hoima, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Members of the Babiito clan are seeking audience with President Yoweri Museveni over the ongoing conflict in Bunyoro Kitara Kingdom. The Babiito clan is the ruling clan of the Bunyoro Kitara kingdom. Led by Fred Mugenyi Rucunya, the chief prince locally known as Okwir, the …
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Kikuube, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The police in Kikuube district is holding five people for allegedly forging the signature of Omukama Dr. Solomon Gafabusa Rukirabaisaija Iguru, the King of Bunyoro Kitara Kingdom to grab 2,000 acres of land in Bugoma central forest reserve. The land located in Nyairongo village, Kabwoya sub …
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