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The Minister for Kampala and Metropolitan Affairs, Betty Amongi has approved additional allowances for the newly created authority and division executive members under the 2020 Kampala Capital City Authority-KCCA Amendment Act. The allowances communicated in a December 10th letter by the minister to the executive director and the deputy executive director of the authority are…
National Resistance Movement-NRM officials in Rubanda district have clashed over attempts to compel them to support to Henry Ariganyira Musasizi, Rubanda County East parliamentary candidate. The officials clashed at a meeting convened at Bubaare sub-county primary school playground in Rubanda district on Friday by Musasizi to plan for President Yoweri Museveni’s visit to the district.…
The National Unity Platform-NUP presidential candidate Robert Ssentamu Kyagulanyi has cleared the air on his decision to endorse candidates from different political parties. It came after Kyagulanyi endorsed Jimmy Olanya Olenge, the Uganda People Congress candidate for the Kitgum Municipality Parliamentary seat on Saturday. Olenge is the second parliamentary candidate to receive the endorsement of…
Uganda is due to hold a general election in January of 2021. Opposition presidential candidates have accused security forces of brutally breaking up their rallies and beating their supporters. In November, one of the candidates – Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu alias Bobi Wine was arrested and charged for defying COVID-19 regulations governing mass gatherings. Over 50…
Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, have called on the Trump Administration to take immediate action to address a worsening human rights situation in Uganda prior to general elections next month. In his December 9, 2020 letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, Engel…
As Uganda is remaining with less than 30 days to the polling date slated for January 14, the Electoral Commission has received the first batch of the ballot papers to be used in the forthcoming general elections. The first batch of ballot papers that landed on Entebbe Airport on December, 9, 2020 included those for…
The Uganda Human Rights Commission-UHRC has cautioned politicians against defying campaign guidelines issued by the Electoral Commission. The acting chairperson to the Commission Katebalirwe Amooti Wa Irumba says the clashes between candidates and security personnel are as a result of the failure by the politicians to respect the set guidelines. According to the guidelines issued…
Dear Christiane Amanpour I am writing to react to an interview you hosted between yourself and one of the Ugandan presidential candidates, Hon Robert Kyagulanyi AKA Bobi Wine. For years I have been an avid fan of not just your journalistic prowess but, I to a very large extent believed your network to be one…
Uganda’s ruling party, the National Resistance Movement(NRM) is in scientific campaigns seeking to extend leadership to more 5 years led by President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni. In its manifesto, NRM demonstrates the progress made in securing ugandans, Africans as well as their legitimately accumulated wealth and property. It also highlights the NRM’s commitment to building a…
The National Resistance Movement (NRM) Secretary General, Justine Kasule Lumumba, has landed in hot soup after her name allegedly appeared repeatedly in an ongoing investigations into financial misappropriation at the party Secretariat. Our sources who are privy to the investigations indicate that that Lumumba is implicated in a number of corruption scandals that involve billions…
