Tag Archives: Museveni

Ntungamo, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Management Training and Advisory Centre (MTAC) has opened a new campus in Kahunga, Ntungamo District. The facility was completed over two years ago and is intended to further MTAC’s role in skill development and entrepreneurship for Ugandan youth. Mwebesa Francis, the Minister for Trade, …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The National Resistance Movement (NRM) party is intensifying its efforts to regain support in the Buganda Region after conceding significant ground to the opposition National Unity Platform. Following what were disappointing results in previous polls, NRM’s Vice Chairperson for Buganda Region Godfrey Kiwanda Ssubi on …

COMMENT | Gertrude Kamya Othieno | Your Excellency, President Museveni, I write to you as a Ugandan who shares your vision of a united, inclusive, and forward-looking Uganda. Throughout your leadership, you have addressed the scourge of sectarianism, reminding us that divisions rooted in region and tribe hold us back from realizing …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Museveni has officially appointed Professor Moses Muhwezi as the substantive Principal of Makerere University Business School (MUBS). This confirmation comes at a time when students and staff have been urging the government to make the appointment in order to ease tensions at the …

KAMPALA, UGANDA | THE INDEPENDENT | The Ministry of Health has called on African countries to collaborate in vaccine manufacturing to prevent a recurrence of the COVID-19 vaccine hoarding that left many nations vulnerable. Speaking at the opening of the Africa Special Convention on Diagnostics on Tuesday, Health Ministry Permanent Secretary …

Tororo, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  This weekend’s grand fundraising dinner in support of the renovation of St Anthony’s Hospital in Tororo has been postponed, after organizers realized all MPs from Tororo Archdiocese would be engaged in a presidential tour of Bukedi district. Parliament Speaker Anita Annet Among  and Archbishop Dr. …

GOMBA, UGANDA | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has said he is ready to have a showdown with people opposing the rationalization of the Uganda Coffee Development Authority-UCDA. Speaking to Members of Parliament who belong to his ruling National Resistance Movement at his Kisozi farm, Museveni said his government …

KAMPALA, UGANDA | THE INDEPENDENT | When the BRICS, a growing bloc of the world’s major developing economies, announced Uganda among the 13 new Partner Countries, there were questions as to what this meant and why Uganda, of all the others in the East. It was the only country preferred by …

Museveni: Operation Wealth Creation has done more than what UCDA has done in improving coffee productivity and marketability KAMPALA, UGANDA | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has vigorously defended his government’s decision to collapse the Uganda Coffee Development Authority-UCDA downplaying the role it has played over the years in coffee development. …

KAMPALA, UGANDA | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda Telecommunications Corporation Limited (UTCL) has received a new lease of life following the signing of an agreement between the government of Uganda and Rowad Capital Commercial (RCC), a company based in Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates -UAE. The event was witnessed by President …