By Charles Katabalwa, Julius Mugaga/Umoja Standard. Kampala, Uganda: Although the exact date and venue has not been announced but according to source the online engaged this morning revealed that tomorrow 29th October 2022 Gen. Muhoozi is going to have a meeting with the National Committee of Revolution Guards (RG)to decide. Uganda’s first son and senior presidential advisor Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba Museveni has told his supporters that his father Gen Yoweri Kaguta Tibuhaburwa Museveni has cleared his proposal for a youth conference due to take place in Kampala in a matter of weeks. The first son also revealed that about 20…
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Uganda Wildlife Authority [UWA] has launched the installation of an electric fence along the Queen Elizabeth National Park boundary to protect some residents in the Kitagwenda district from being attacked by wild animals. UWA officials and district leaders early this week commissioned the installation of the fence in Rwetuma and Buhindagi parishes in Mahyoro town council, which occasionally faces wild animal attacks. The electric fence that measures 61 kilometers [kms], that stretches through the villages of Buhindagi, Kanyabikyere, Rwetuma, Zambia, and Kyendangara, is meant to stop humans from invading the national park to poach. According to Bashir Hangi, senior communication…
Beneficiaries of Emyooga funds in Nebbi Municipality have said some SACCOs have failed to refund the loans because the government did not empower their leaders with financial literacy which would have helped them to manage the funds better. The Emyooga beneficiaries said the funds were disbursed to them during the period when people were busy engaged in politics and faced with the Covid-19 pandemic, which they said hindered them from getting advice on how best to manage the funds. The members voiced their concerns in Nebbi town during the training of over 100 leaders of Sacco leaders in areas such…
In a letter dated October 27, 2022, seen by this website, Members of Parliament (MPs) that sit on the Committee on National Economy have been notified to convene with the Ministry of Finance to consider this “urgent” request. “Notice is at this moment given that the committee on National Economy will have a meeting with the Ministry of Finance to consider the urgent assignment of scrutinizing the request by the government to borrow up to Euro 455.03 million to finance the development and infrastructure budget for the financial year 2022/2023,” reads part of the letter signed by Glorious Kamayangi on…
Marion Drametu, the former Chairman of the Democratic Party in Moyo District and a former Secretary General of DP, under Dr. Paul Kawanga Ssemogerere’s Presidency has died. The Democratic Party Publicity Secretary Mr. Opio Okoler announced on Friday morning. “The late Mariano served the party in times of uncertainty but ably executed the duties that came with his office,” he said. More information about the deceased and burial arrangements will be shared soon.
By Julius Mugaga Tukacungurwa/Umoja Standard. Kampala, Uganda: 975 students from Kampala University Juba College were left in untold confusion after Uganda’s High Court ruling did not meet their requests in the suit against Kampala University which they claimed that it was supposed to award them academic honors after their completion which the University disowned. A section of students from Kampala University Juba college petitioned the High Court of Uganda in miscellaneous cause No. 0129 of 2022 seeking for several declaration and orders against Kampala University that included, that the denial of the college by Kampala University was illegal and irrational,…
The escalating cases of incest marriage have forced Civil Society Organizations and local leaders from Kasese District to request human rights defenders to investigate the rate at which vice is increasing in the District. The concern was raised on Thursday during the one-week training on capacity building on human rights monitoring and reporting for local leaders and human rights defenders across the Rwenzori region organized by the United Nations (UN) at Fort Breeze Hotel in Fort Portal City. Now that Kasese District was still witnessing an increase in incest marriages where a biological father defiled his biological daughter, the leaders…
A group of National Resistance Movement (NRM) party cyber security who was hired to hack into top opposition social media accounts during the 2021 elections period have petitioned President Yoweri Museveni over non-payment for the services they offered. The hackers’ team who worked under renowned city tycoon Sulaimani Kabangala Mbuga alias SK Mbuga accuse their boss of swindling money meant to pay them after handling top secret work for the government. In a letter seen by this website, SK Mbuga submitted the proposal to the State House on their behalf and they were entitled to 40% of the total budget,…
In a move to implement the Presidential directive on wetland protection, the Kagadi Deputy Resident District Commissioner (RDC), Mr. Benjamin Tumusiime, together with police over the weekend, conducted an operation to control the massive destruction of natural resources in the district. The operation led to the arrest and detention of two farmers. The suspects are Harerimaana Barnabas, aged 31, and his worker. Other culprits who are still at large include Hassan Irumba and Richard Kasungwa. They have been encroaching and destroying Nyakamira wetland, the main tributary of the river Nkusi. The said swamp borders Kyenzige and Kamuroza sub-counties in Kitema…
By Julius Mugaga Tukacungurwa/Umoja Standard. Kampala, Uganda: Uganda’s First Lady Janet Museveni has bid farewell to the outgoing French Ambassador to Uganda, H.E Jules-Armand Aniambossou at State House Nakasero. Janet lauded his government for the good relations it has had with Uganda. “Uganda has had good relations with the French Government, and it is my desire to see the relations and partnerships between the French Embassy and Uganda’s Education and Sports sector continue to grow. We pray that you go in peace and remember Uganda as your second home,” said Janet. Outgoing Aniambossou will be heading for his new diplomatic…