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Will Museveni back or sack police chief?  On July 12, dozens of police officers assisted by militia goons pounced on jubilating supporters of de facto opposition leader Kizza Besigye in downtown Kampala city and clobbered them with sticks and metallic cables, and even run over one man with a police …

THE Pride of Uganda is in the hands of 21 athletes who represent the country in the summer Olympics that officially opened in Rio on Friday . Those were the sentiments of President Yoweri Museveni s as he flagged off the 2nd batch of athletes to Brazil. The President urged …

President Yoweri Museveni started his two-day visit to Chad by touring their oil facilities on Sunday. In N’Djamena for the swearing-in ceremony of President Idriss Deby to his fifth term in office, Museveni jumped on a helicopter to inspect the country’s oil refinery. Over 15 heads of state are expected to …

President Museveni has challenged Bamasaba Cultural leaders to abandon the practice of using a single knife on different imbalu candidates in order to check disease that are caused by blood transfusion. In the speech, read by the second deputy prime minister and minister for East African affairs Kirunda Kivejinja, the …

PHOTOGRAPHS: President Yoweri Museveni has today flagged off Uganda’s team to the Olympics. The President reiterated the values of sports and asked the team to observe discipline. The athletes at the function at State House comprised 14 athletes who fly out to Rio tomorrow. The first batch of boxers and swimmers is already in …

Rebel groups M23 and ADF were on the agenda as Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni and Democratic Republic of Congo’s Joseph Kabila held a summit Thursday at Mweya Lodge. The summit agreed on matters of security, electricity extension to the DRC, petroleum, oil pipeline, bridge and border survey. The summit agreed …

Joseph Kabila is in Uganda today for a summit with President Yoweri Museveni, government spokesman Ofwono Opondo has confirmed. The meeting, that is expected to have security in the region on the agenda, is being held at Mweya Safari Lodge in western Uganda. While no details have been provided, the …

President Yoweri Museveni has ordered for the immediate transfer of health workers at a government health facility at Mpumudde in Nakawuka, Wakiso district, accusing them of laziness and neglect of duty. The President had visited the area to inspect the condition of health services at the Health Center III facility. …

Gen. Saleh now running Museveni’s government On July 21, a group of Kampala traders met at Serene Suites, a boutique hotel of two boxlike four-story blocks on top of Mutundwe Hill on the edges of the city that has become a sort of headquarters for the financially-distressed business people. The …

The Internal Security Organisation (ISO) and Permanent Secretaries should be at the forefront in the fight against corruption, president Yoweri Museveni has said. “ISO and Permanent Secretaries and other accounting officers at district level are the ones who should help us fight corruption because they have a countrywide network,” Museveni …