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President Yoweri Museveni Orders Army Guards for Members of Parliament

President Yoweri Museveni Orders Army Guards for Members of Parliament

Stunned by the recent wave of high-profile assassinations, Members of Parliament will now get military guards from the Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF), the legislators and President Museveni agreed in a closed-door meeting on Tuesday. In the meeting, MPs alarmed by the recent wave of high-profile killings and, particularly, the June 8 gunning down of […]

President Yoweri Museveni Calls for Banning Hoodies, Requiring Tracking of Vehicles

President Yoweri Museveni Calls for Banning Hoodies, Requiring Tracking of Vehicles

Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni on Monday called for banning hooded jackets and requiring tracking devices on all motorized vehicles, following Friday’s murder of a legislator. Ibrahim Abiriga, a member of Parliament, was shot to death Friday evening when assailants allegedly sprayed his car with bullets as it approached his home about 10 kilometers outside this […]

Uganda imposes WhatsApp and Facebook tax ‘to stop gossip’

Uganda imposes WhatsApp and Facebook tax ‘to stop gossip’

Uganda’s parliament has passed a law to impose a controversial tax on people using social media platforms. It imposes a 200 shilling [$0.05, £0.04, R0.63] daily levy on people using internet messaging platforms like Facebook, WhatsApp, Viber and Twitter. President Yoweri Museveni had pushed for the changes, arguing that social media encouraged gossip. The law […]

Police Defy President Yoweri Museveni Order On His Right of Way

Police Defy President Yoweri Museveni Order On His Right of Way

Police has continued to defy an order by President Yoweri Museveni to stop clearing the way for his convoy while he is moving within Kampala, URN has learnt. The president, in February reportedly issued an order to Traffic Police to stop clearing the way for his vehicles in Kampala so that other road users are […]

Uganda’s Museveni Cancels Multi-Billion Chinese Mining Deal Over Bribe

Uganda’s Museveni Cancels Multi-Billion Chinese Mining Deal Over Bribe

President Museveni has stopped a multi-billion copper mining project with a Chinese company at Kilembe Mines following information that a former minister pocketed a $1m bribe to influence the deal. The President also ordered investigations into allegations that top government officials, including a former minister, received millions of dollars in bribes to influence the award […]

Why Summit On River Nile Ended With No Deal

Why Summit On River Nile Ended With No Deal

Photographs of dignitaries and presidents taken from last week’s Nile Basin Initiative (NBI) heads of state summit at State House, Entebbe suggest the meeting was a tremendous success. But behind-the-scenes accounts of the June 20 to 22 event offer a contrasting narrative. The summit was convened largely to provide an opportunity for all 10 countries […]

South Sudan’s Riek Machar Pleads With Museveni Over House Arrest

South Sudan’s Riek Machar Pleads With Museveni Over House Arrest

The former mediator between the Uganda government and the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), Betty Bigombe, has run into the first hurdle in her new assignment to reconcile the warring parties in South Sudan. President Museveni recently appointed Bigombe, 64, as his technical advisor on the South Sudan Peace Initiative. Bigombe’s last public office was that […]

President Jacob Zuma Praises Uganda’s Natural Beauty

President Jacob Zuma Praises Uganda’s Natural Beauty

South African president Jacob Zuma has spoken glowingly about Uganda’s sprawling scenic beauty, and urged President Yoweri Meseveni to return Lake Victoria to its original name to attract more tourists. “Africa is beautiful. One day, I was visiting Uganda and it is a beautiful country – evergreen [with] huge Lake Victoria – and I don’t […]

How Ugandan MPs Rejected 15-Year Tax Waiver for Bujagali Energy Limited

How Ugandan MPs Rejected 15-Year Tax Waiver for Bujagali Energy Limited

At a meeting at State House Entebbe, MPs rejected a proposal by President Museveni to offer a 15-year corporation tax waiver for Bujagali Energy Limited (BEL), a 250-megawatt power-generating facility. Included in the Income Tax Amendment Bill (No. 2) 2017, the proposal sought to exempt Bujagali Hydro Power Project from paying corporation tax until 2033. […]

Ugandan President Museveni Again Blasts Police As Thieves, Warns of Sacking

Ugandan President Museveni Again Blasts Police As Thieves, Warns of Sacking

President Museveni has once more torn into the reputation of Uganda Police Force and accused them of being irredeemably corrupt and promoting crime in the country. The President’s disapproval comes just two months after he accused the same law and order agency of being infiltrated by criminals who have compromised investigations into high profile killings, […]

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