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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Police have disclosed plans by boda boda riders to attack State House to compel President Yoweri Museveni to lift a ban on their operations. Museveni restricted boda bodas to transportation of packages in March this year as part of the Covid-19 preventive measures. He …

What international money lenders fear most about 2021 Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Increased government spending and borrowing as President Yoweri Museveni seeks re-election could destabilise the economy in FY2020/21. That is the view of the latest report by the international credit rating agency, Fitch. It is backed by …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Museveni has commissioned operations of seven small to medium manufacturing and assembly plants in Namanve Industrial Park. The factories are already providing over 2000 jobs to Ugandans and manufacture a wide range of Products from radios, TV’s, refrigerators to sanitary wear and …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | These are the top stories in this week’s THE INDEPENDENT. COVER STORY Elections money could kill economy: What International lenders fear most about 2021 THE LAST WORD Inside Uganda’s election budget: Why opportunities that theoretically exist to cut wasteful public spending are politically impossible ANALYSIS …

Kamuntu told Parliament that the President assented to the Electoral Commission (Amendment) Bill, The Political Parties and Organizations (Amendment) Bill, the Parliamentary Elections (Amendment) Bill, and the Presidential Elections (Amendment) Bill. He however said that the President declined to assent to the Local Government (Amendment) Bill. However, the Minister did …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Constitutional Court justices have in a majority decision of four to one dismissed an application by eleven legislators challenging a resolution by the Central Executive Committee of the ruling National Resistance Movement-NRM party endorsing President Yoweri Museveni as their sole presidential candidate for the …

Uganda now has eight cities  1⃣ Fortportal 2⃣ Jinja 3⃣ Masaka 4⃣ Mbarara 5⃣ Mbale 6⃣ Arua 7⃣ Gulu Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Museveni has congratulated the people of Jinja, Arua, Gulu, Masaka, FortPortal, Mbarara and Mbale, whose towns today became cities. “This is an acknowledgement of the growth these towns have experienced …

Kampala, Uganda | Prossy Nansubuga | Joseph Kabuleta has sworn to beat Museveni in the 2021 elections and become the next president of Uganda. The former sports reporter and bible teacher while addressing the press this morning said that he is running for the office of President not as an opposer …

Should we expect a difference in 2021 `scientific elections’ that have banned campaign rallies? COMMENT | GODFREY MWESIGYE | “There are campaign beatings, ballot beatings, and post-election beatings. … Then after the election cycle is over, the country shall revert to ordinary beatings.” Mary Serumaga— Pambazuka News, 29 Aug 2018. …

Here is why the 2021 elections might not happen   Kampala, Uganda | RONALD MUSOKE | Simon Byabakama, the head of the Electoral Commission (EC) has been fielding a barrage of questions ever since he announced a revised roadmap for the 2021 general elections on June 16. Now, he might …