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By Charles Katabalwa/ umoja Standard. Archbishop Pastor Dr. Moses Ndimukika Maka is now the 7th Archbishop of SDA Church, replaces Dr pastor Daniel Matte, he has been installed with fellow leaders including the executive secretary pastor William Bagamba and the treasurer Frank Kiggundu . Officiating at this function the prime Minister of Uganda Robina Nabanja who represented president Museveni at this function reiterated government’s commitment to continue supporting the Adventists church giving assurance that the newly installed Archbishop together with his committee are to be given vehicles to ease their work of evangelism. “Government knows very well the work the Adventist church is doing for…

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By Julius Mugaga Tukacungurwa/ Umoja Standard. UTAMU-Kungu Campus: On Thursday, Uganda’s Minister of Works and Transport Gen. Katumba Wamala testified government’s commitment in complementing and supporting Uganda Management And Technology University (UTAMU) in promoting and marketing Online Distance electronic Learning (ODeL). He encouraged the University to focus on executive trainings fully undertaken online for various (Ministries, Departments and Agencies, MDAs) including local governments, URA, NSSF, schools, hospitals, health centres among others that have staff across the country. Gen. Katumba Wamala, Uganda’s Minister of Works and Transport as Guest of honor addresses the congregation at Uganda Technology And Management University’s 7th…

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By Charles Katabalwa/Umoja Standard. The Forum for Democratic Change Former (FDC)president who also double as National Council Member Rtd. Col Dr. Kizza Besigye has expressed fears over a turbulent future of Uganda due to the growing population of youth but with limited resources in the country. Besigye disclosed this today during the two days (24th-25th November 2022) FDC Party National Council meeting converged at the party headquarters in Najjanankumbi, that Uganda’s population is overwhelming with 50% of Children under the age of 15 making Uganda’s population and there no preparations yet has been made by Uganda’s leaders to curb the…

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By Charles Katabalwa/ Umoja Standard. Kampala, Uganda: The Seventh-Day Adventist Church new Arch Bishop Pr. Dr. Maka Moses Ndimukika to be installed on Sabbath 26th November 2022 at Najjanankubi Adventist church followers urged to pray for him to save the people of God. While addressing journalists at Najjanankubi Adventist church Pastor Samuel Kajoba the Bishop of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church in central Uganda said that installation ceremony comes at the difficult time when the country is experiencing Ebola and COVID-19 pandemic but they are going to use ministry of health guidelines to make it and few guest and followers have been…

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Hanoi, Vietnam: There was pomp and glamour at the Vietnamese Presidential Palace in Hanoi as President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni was being welcomed by his counterpart H.E Nguyễn Xuân Phúc. Gen Museveni was received with a State and Ceremonial Guard of Honor by men and women in uniform. During the 30-minute ceremony, Presidents: Museveni and Nguyễn shook hands with the joyous people welcoming the Ugandan leader standing by the side as a military band played the national anthems of both countries. President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni and his counterpart H.E Nguyễn Xuân Phúc. Photo by PPU. President Museveni inspected the Inter-Forces Guard…

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By Julius Mugaga Tukacungurwa/ Umoja Standard. Kampala, Uganda: On Wednesday Uganda’s former minister for Trade, Industries and Cooperatives and Mawokota Member of Parliament Hon. Amelia Kyambadde lauded organizers of the Awards for initiating competition amongst private sector which ensures quality production. “This kind of arrangements spark competition amongst manufacturers and entire private sector which brings efficiency in Uganda’s industrial development”. Said Amelia. Hon. Amelia Kyambadde is seen with company representatives during  East African Brand Quality Awards ceremony, 2022 at Golf Course Hotel, Kampala. Photo by Julius Mugaga Tukacungurwa. It is against this background that she asked local producers to make…

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Kampala, Uganda: President Yoweri Museveni has this morning left for the Socialist Republic of Vietnam for a 3-day state visit. While in Vietnam, H.E the President will hold discussions with Vietnamese Government leaders on various areas of cooperation and common interest. The President was seen off at the Entebbe International Airport by the Vice President H.E Jessica Alupo. Others at the Airport who saw him off included; the Minister for Presidency Hon. Milly Babirye Babalanda, Head of the Public Service and Secretary to cabinet Ms. Lucy Nakyobe Mbonye, Commissioner General of Prisons Dr. Johnson Byabashaija, Major Gen. Abel Kandiho, the…

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QATAR2022WC: For the first time, Federation Internationale de Football Association, FIFA, listed three female referees among its 36 to officiate the men’s World Cup. Rwanda’s Salima has made history again by becoming the first female African referee at the men’s world cup. The other two are Yamashita Yoshimi of Japan and Stephanie Frappart of France. Mukusanga has broken new ground before as a female referee. She was the first female referee at the Women’s World Cup 2019 edition, and earlier this year, she became the first woman referee to officiate the African Cup of Nations as a centre referee. Rwanda’s…

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By Julius Mugaga Tukacungurwa/Umoja Standard. Kampala, Uganda: Centre for Domestic Violence Prevention (CEDOVIP) – a Civil Society Organization that works to create safe and healthy relationships and families through preventing domestic violence believes, if stakeholders came together in the fight, violence cases would be minimized. Speaking after a two-day training (21-22nd November, 2022) for Journalists on ‘Reporting on Violence Against Women and Child Marriage’, at Reproductive Health Uganda Offices in Kamwokya, Diana Nansumba, a Program Officer at CEDOVIP stressed that no one can work in isolation to bring the vice of Gender-Based Violence and Violence Against Women to an end.…

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Hanoi, Vietnam: The President of the Republic of Uganda Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has arrived in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam for a three-day state visit at the invitation of his counterpart President Nguyễn Xuân Phúc. At Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam, H.E Museveni was received by the Chairman Office of the President Le Khanh Hai, the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs of Vietnam Ambassador Nguyen Minh Hang, The Director General in Charge of Middle East and Africa Mr Bui Ha Nam and Chief of State Protocol Nguyen Viet Dzung. President Yoweri Museveni being welcomed…

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