Kampala, Uganda | URN | President Museveni is expected to deliver the State of the Nation Address on Thursday. The address will be held as the 12th Parliament meets for its 3rd sitting of the current session. According to the Government Citizens’ Interaction Centre, the venue for this year’s State of …
Read More »On Museveni’s support to industrialists
What Uganda can learn from countries that enjoyed industrial transformation THE LAST WORD | ANDREW M. MWENDA | My friend, Ellison Karuhanga, wrote a brilliant defense of President Yoweri Museveni’s policy of allocating state benefits to private companies in pursuit of Uganda’s industrial development. He argued that the president’s critics …
Read More »New and old ministers outline priorities, thank President Museveni
Kampala, Uganda | URN | Newly nominated Cabinet and State Ministers have expressed gratitude to President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni for including them in his new cabinet as he embarks on the next five years in power. President Museveni on Tuesday unveiled his new cabinet, in which he dropped twenty ministers at …
Read More »Amin and Museveni in the eyes of Prof Mamdani
Prof Mamdani Reassesses Amin, Accuses Museveni of Dividing Uganda Kampala, Uganda | URN | Renowned scholar Professor Mahmood Mamdani has defended part of former president Idi Amin’s political legacy while sharply criticising President Yoweri Museveni. He accuses President Museveni of transforming Uganda into a fragmented and militarised …
Read More »West Nile leaders disappointed over Museveni’s new cabinet
Lira, Uganda | URN | Leaders and residents in West Nile have expressed disappointment over the newly released Cabinet list from State House, saying the region has once again been allocated only state minister positions, which they argue limits its influence in national decision-making and development planning. The Chief Executive …
Read More »President Museveni action on underperforming ministers was long overdue
COMMENT | NANTEZA SARAH KYOBE | President Yoweri Museveni’s remarks at his inauguration for a seventh term and at the election of the Speaker of the 12th Parliament have set a tone of urgency and high expectation that complacency and underperformance would no longer be tolerated from all public officials. In his …
Read More »Museveni on corruption: A stitch in time saves nine
COMMENT | OBED K KATUREEBE | “A stitch in time saves nine” is a British proverb, meaning that taking immediate action to fix a problem prevents it from becoming a larger, more laborious issue later. The phrase originates from sewing—sewing a tiny tear in a piece of cloth immediately saves you …
Read More »General Muhoozi Kainerugaba and the architecture of power in Uganda
COMMENT | DR JUDE KAGORO | In Uganda, power does not merely reside in State House, Parliament, or the Constitution. It circulates through symbols, networks, uniforms, proximity, and perception. Some individuals command authority not because they formally hold office, but because society has already invested them with what Pierre Bourdieu would …
Read More »NEW CABINET: Kiryowa Kiwanuka is Minister of defence
Moses Ali, Kasaija, Gen David Muhoozi, Anite and Nankabirwa dropped from Cabinet Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Museveni has retained a majority of his ministers, with the half dozen new names including Kiryowa Kiwanuka as Minister of Defence, Sanjay Tanna as Trade Minister and Adonia …
Read More »On Museveni’s response to my article
How I share the president’s vision even though we disagree on the details in its implementation THE LAST WORD | ANDREW M. MWENDA | I was on a flight to Beijing when President Yoweri Museveni published his “missive” against my criticism of his policies supporting private businesspersons with government …
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