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Sheema District Woman Member of Parliament Jacklet Atuhaire Rwabukurukuru has emphasized the need to economically empower women in the District as a way of curbing the rampant gender-based violence. The legislator made remarks on Tuesday 17, March 2020 while meeting Sheema District (Sub-County, Town Councils and Divisions’ Women Council executives) at hotel Triangle, Mbarara where…
Victoria Rusoke, a Commissioner at the Uganda Human Rights Commission (UHRC) is in deep trouble for allegedly using government resources to further her political ambitions. We have learnt that Rusoke plans to contest for the Kabarole District Woman Member of Parliament seat come the 2021 elections and because of that, sources reveal that she is…
Parliament has rolled out a number of measures restricting and limiting access to the Building, and curtailing MPs’ activities in the constituencies intended to stem the spread of Coronavirus (Covid-19). In her communication on Thursday to Parliament, Speaker, Rebecca Kadaga, said that access to the precincts of Parliament and all activities within will be scaled…
Kampala central member of parliament Muhammad Nsereko has challenged President Yoweri Kaguta after he ordered the closure of schools and suspended religious gatherings across the country in attempt to prevent the spread of coronavirus. Although there has not been any confirmed case of coronavirus as today, Mr Museveni said all primary and secondary schools, university…
Democratic Party Masaka district members on Sunday convened a delegates’ conference to renew the party leadership in a free and fair election after five years. The district delegates’ conference convened at Tropic Inn Hotel in Masaka town voted for the new Executive committee, Youth Committee and Women’s Committee. It was presided over by the Acting…
Former security minister Lt Gen Henry Tumukunde has been admitted to Kampala Hospital after collapsing in army detention. This website has learnt that the former Security minister has been rushed to hospital with a swollen leg on Sunday, March 15, 2020, after his health deteriorated on Saturday night. It was not immediately clear what caused…
Hussein Lumumba Amin, the son of Former Ugandan President Gen. Iddi Amin Dada has said, it was his late father’s favourable laws and good governance that enabled Investors and departed Asian-Ugandan such as City Mogul Dr Sudhir Ruparelia and others to return and invest in the Pearl Of Africa-Uganda. Lumumba, made these remarks in a…
A joint security team has searched the offices of former security minister also a presidential aspirant, Lt Gen Henry Tumukunde. The search at Tumukunde’s premises was conducted by the elite Special Forces Command (SFC), Joint Anti-Terrorism Task Force (JATT), Chieftaincy of Military Intelligence (CMI) and Criminal Investigations Directorate (CID). CID director AIGP Grace Akullo spearheaded…
A fierce succession battle has erupted at State House over who will take over power in 2021, after retired Lt. Gen. Henry Tumukunde declaring his intentions to contest for the presidency. Gen. Tumukunde, a former Uganda Peoples Defence Forces Spy Chief, who also served as minister for security a few years back in president Museveni’s…
By Agencies President Pierre Nkurunziza has on March 13, 2020 effectively became Burundi’s Supreme Leader for life and will get a take-home package worth Bfw1 billion ($526,990). Mr. Nkurunziza overstayed his welcome for at least five years by extending his tenure for an unconstitutional third term in 2015. However, as it stands now, Nkurunziza is…
