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M7 Offers To Mediate In Somalia & Somaliland Unification Agreement
President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni yesterday received a Special Envoy from the Republic of Somaliland, Dr. Jama Musse Jama at State House-Entebbe. During the engagement, President Museveni agreed to be the unification facilitator between Somaliland and Somalia. Somaliland, officially the Republic of Somaliland, is an unrecognised sovereign state in the Horn of Africa, recognised internationally as…
M7 Names Maj Gen Katsigazi New DIGP, Byabashaija Retained
President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, the commander in chief of armed forces ‘CIC’ has appointed Maj. Gen. Goeffrey Tumusiime Katsigazi the new Deputy Inspector General of Police -IGP. Katsigazi replaces the late Gen. Peter Lokech who died last year in August whilst still in office as the deputy IGP. Gen. Katsigazi who has been the Deputy…
M7 Names Maj Gen Bakasumba CoS Land Forces As Ogiki Takes Over 2nd Division
The commander in chief of armed forces President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has transferred Maj Gen Jack Bakasumba from Uganda police back to UPDF as the acting Chief of Staff Land Force. Maj Gen Bakasumba, who has been the chief of joint staff for the Uganda Police, replaces Brig Bob Ogiki, who has been promoted to…
M7 Meets Sudan Military Council ,Agrees To Deploy UPDF In Khartoum To Quell Riots
President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has met with members of the Sudan Transitional Military Council led by His Excellency, Gen. Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan at the Mbale State Lodge. The team briefed him of the situation in Sudan and discussed the possible collaboration towards restoration of peace and prosperity in the country. The type of conflict and…
M7 Meets New Russian Ambassador, Discuss Bilateral Trade
President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has received credentials of the new Ambassador of the Russian Federation to Uganda H.E. Semivolos Vladlen. Amb. Semivolos was accompanied by the Chargé d’Affaires Dr. Evgeny Kalashnikov. The fountain of honour told his guest that the relationship between Africa and the Soviet Union started immediately after the communist revolution against socialism…
M7 Meets Kagame In London To Resolve Border Tensions
President Yoweri Museveni and his Rwandan counterpart Paul Kagame are expected to meet in London on the sidelines of the UK-Africa Investment Summit 2020 which starts today. If it goes ahead, this will be the first meeting for the presidents since last August when they met in Luanda, Angola and signed a Memorandum of Understanding…
M7 Meets High Command Over Karamoja Cattle Rustling,Operation Shujja
President Museveni who is also the Commander in Chief (CIC) of the Uganda Peoples Defence Forces (UPDF)has met with the country’s Security High Command. The security’s top brass discussed the country’s successful handling of several pandemics including COVID 19, Locusts, Operation Shujaa and the security situation in the Karamoja region. He commended the UPDF for…
M7 Meets European Union Delegation,Assures Them peaceful 2021 General Elections
President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni on saturday has held a lengthy meeting with the European Union Delegation to Uganda, during which he discussed various issues, among them climatic change, environmental degradation and the 2021 general election. Shortly after the meeting, President Museveni tweeted thus; “Met with the European Union delegation in Uganda led by the EU…
M7 Lectures Kigezi Youth On Wealth Creation Projects
President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, the NRM presidential candidate has said youth can only become rich if they are engaged in wealth creation but with a proper calculation. The NRM presidential flag bearer made the remarks during a meeting with youth leaders from Kigezi at Nshwere Primary School in Kiruhura District. “I was born in Ntungamo…
M7 Jets Out To Addis Ababa To Attend IGAD summit
President Museveni Friday morning left for the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, where he will join other regional leaders for the 13th ordinary summit of the Inter-governmental Authority on Development (IGAD). On the agenda is the IGAD Treaty, IGAD Organisational structure and nomination of IGAD chairmanship.These were endorsed by the ordinary council of Ministers, and will…