Tag Archives: Norbert Mao

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The High Court Family Division has dissolved the marriage of Norbert Mao, the Democratic Party-DP President to Naomi Achieng Adong. Justice Godfrey Namundi dissolved the marriage in his judgment delivered on May 27th, 2019 on a petition filed by Achieng accusing Mao of cruelty …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Democratic Party (DP) President, Norbert Mao has said that opposition parties must move away from writing petitions to President Museveni calling for his retirement. Mao says opposition parties should instead devise other strategies which will make Museveni realize that his continued stay in …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Forum for Democratic Change-FDC party has asked the Kyadondo East legislator, Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine to isolate youth who have started attacking Dr. Kizza Besigye and other party leaders in the name of people power. Addressing journalists at the FDC headquarters on Monday, the …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Police have blocked the highly anticipated Democratic Party-DP reunion meeting at Jinja rugby grounds. Heavily armed police officers backed with armored vehicles deployed at the rugby grounds by 7:00 am this morning to stop DP officials for erecting tents and a public address system …

COMMENT: By Morris DC Komakech Mwenda’s targeting Besigye ignores reality that political power aligns with economic interests and vice versa In the last few weeks, our political space is simply polluted by a lackadaisical analysis of politics and the space causing forces that shape those spaces. Andrew Mwenda’s cruel targeting …

There’s a new controversy at the headquarters of Uganda’s oldest Democratic Party (DP) following an announcement by Party President Norbert Mao that Deputy Secretary General Gerald Siranda will be replacing Secretary General Mathias Nsubuga who passed on in December for a period of a year when fresh elections will be …

The opposition Democratic Party (DP) on Thursday petitioned the Speaker and Leader of Opposition, asking parliament to stay the vetting of newly nominated members of the Electoral Commission. The party’s president Norbert Mao, accompanied by the party secretary general Mathias Nsubuga, handed a petition to Speaker Rebecca Kadaga in which they …

By Norbert Mao Looking back at Rwanda 20 years later Sometime in 1994 a few weeks after the RPA took power in Rwanda I probably became one of the few Ugandans who dared to visit Kigali. I was in the company of Uganda Confidential Editor, Teddy Sseezi Cheeye. Dead bodies …

By Ronald Musoke Norbert Mao, the Democratic Party president has protested last week’s police invasion of the party headquarters at City House in Kampala which also involved the arbitrary arrest of members of the Uganda Young Democrats, the party’s youth wing. In a letter dated Nov. 28 sent to the …